The Water and Health in Limpopo Innovations Fellowship Program

林波波省水与健康创新奖学金计划

• 批准号: 8723324
• 负责人: RICHARD L GUERRANT
• 金额: $ 33.95万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-08-13 至 2017-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8723324
• 关键词: African; Child Development; Collaborations; Communities; Diarrhea; Discipline; Discipline of Nursing; Disease; Ensure; Enteral; Ethnography; Faculty; Fellowship; Fellowship Program; Future; Health; Human Rights; Individual; Institution; Intervention; Laboratories; Laws; Measurement; Mentors; Microbiology; Modeling; Morbidity - disease rate; Output; Policies; Postdoctoral Fellow; Process; Protocols documentation; Recruitment Activity; Research; Research Ethics; Research Project Grants; Research Training; Resources; Rural; Sanitation; Scholarship; South Africa; Southern Africa; Specialist; Teacher Professional Development; Training; Training Programs; Training and Education; United States; Universities; Virginia; Water; Water Purification; base; community planning; early childhood; global health; innovation; models and simulation; mortality; professor; programs; rural area; skills; water quality

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Water and Health in Limpopo (WHIL) Innovations fellowship program will provide cross-disciplinary training in global health innovation to twelve post-doctoral fellows, six from the United States and six from rural Southern Africa, over the next five years. The program will focus on the closely related issues of poor access to water and sanitation in rural areas of Southern Africa and unacceptably high rates of morbidity and mortality associated with early childhood diarrhea. The nearly decade old collaboration between the University of Virginia (UVa) and the University of Venda, South Africa that will host this program is led by the internationally-recognized global health leader and early childhood diarrhea (ECD) specialist, Dr. Richard Guerrant, at UVa, and by Dr. Pascal Bessong, UNIVEN Professor and Chair of Microbiology. The collaboration is supported by a multi-disciplinary group of faculty from both institutions with particular expertise in enteric disease, rural water purification strategies, rural nursing, community planning, agent- based modeling, child development, cross-cultural ethnography, and South African law related to water and human rights. This group has formed over the past four years and has developed protocols and strategies for trans-disciplinary and trans-oceanic coordination, scholarship, and training. The WHIL Innovations fellowship will provide promising doctorally-prepared potential global health leaders from the US and Southern Africa with the opportunity to participate in mentored global health research and education training with a particular focus on access to and quality of water and ECD. Major objectives of the training program are: (1) To build skills necessary to engage in innovative global health research collaborations including specific tailored training in community engagement, rural water management, measurement of impacts of ECD, simulation modeling in global health, trans-disciplinary collaboration, global health research ethics, project management, and laboratory management; (2) To conduct an innovative, mentored global health research project in the context of the multi-disciplinary WHIL program; and (3) To develop a portfolio of research and training outputs that will serve as a framework from which to develop individual efforts and as a resource for future fellows and other trainees. We plan to recruit fellows from many disciplines and expect to attract outstanding candidates thanks to our well-established and diverse faculty training group. We expect that our trainees will contribute meaningful new research relating to rural water and sanitation provision and ECD in the context of the WHIL program. More importantly, we will ensure that they are prepared to think with innovative pragmatism about these issues meaning that, as they develop exciting new interventions, processes and policies, they will anticipate and incorporate questions of community acceptability, efficacy, affordability, accessibility, and scalability.

描述（由申请人提供）：林波波（Limpopo）的水与健康（同时）创新奖学金计划将在未来五年内为十二名博士后研究员提供跨学科培训，以对十二名博士后研究员，六名来自美国的二十二名伙伴，六名来自美国的六人。该计划将重点介绍南部非洲农村地区水和卫生问题的密切相关问题，以及与儿童早期腹泻有关的发病率和死亡率的高度高。弗吉尼亚大学（UVA）与南非范达大学之间的近十年合作将由国际认可的全球卫生领袖和幼儿腹泻（ECD）专家Richard Guerrant博士，UVA的Richard Guerrant博士领导，UVA，以及Pascal Bessong Bessong Bessong Bessong，Microbiologery and Microbiology of Microbiology and Microbiology of Pascal Bessong。这项合作得到了来自两个机构的多学科教师的支持，这些机构在肠道疾病，农村水净化策略，农村护理，社区规划，基于特工的建模，儿童发展，跨文化民族志以及南非法律以及与水和人权有关的法律方面具有特殊专业知识。该小组在过去四年中成立，并制定了跨学科和跨学科和跨科学协调，奖学金和培训的方案和策略。尽管创新奖学金将提供来自美国和南部非洲的有希望的博士准备的潜在全球卫生领导者，并有机会参加指导的全球健康研究和教育培训，特别着眼于进入和质量水和ECD。培训计划的主要目标是：（1）建立从事创新的全球健康研究合作所必需的技能，包括在社区参与，农村水管理方面的特定量身定制培训，衡量ECD的影响，全球健康中的模拟建模，跨学科合作，全球健康研究伦理，项目，项目 管理和实验室管理； （2）在计划期间，在多学科的背景下进行创新的，指导的全球健康研究项目； （3）开发研究和培训产量的组合，该组合将作为一个框架，以开发个人努力，并作为未来研究员和其他学员的资源。我们计划从许多学科中招募研究员，并希望由于我们成熟且多样化的教师培训小组而吸引出色的候选人。我们希望我们的学员将在计划的背景下为农村水和卫生条款和ECD做出有意义的新研究。更重要的是，我们将确保他们准备对这些问题进行创新的实用主义思考，这意味着，随着他们制定令人兴奋的新干预，过程和政策，他们将预料并结合社区可接受性，功效，可及性，可及性和可伸缩性的问题。