A HIV planning grant for a physician-scientist training program

用于医师-科学家培训计划的艾滋病毒规划补助金

• 批准号: 8710371
• 负责人: RUTH WANJIRU NDUATI
• 金额: $ 3.02万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-08-01 至 2017-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8710371
• 关键词: Africa; Africa South of the Sahara; Caring; Collaborations; Development; Doctor of Philosophy; Educational Curriculum; Educational workshop; Foundations; Funding; Goals; Government; Grant; HIV; Health Policy; Healthcare; Individual; Institution; International AIDS; Kenya; Link; Mentors; Mentorship; Modeling; Performance; Physicians; Prevention; Public Health; Qualifying; Research; Research Personnel; Research Project Grants; Research Training; Scientist; Services; Site; Specialist; Strategic Planning; Structure; Supervision; Training; Training Programs; Translational Research; Universities; Vertical Disease Transmission; Washington; design; experience; innovation; medical specialist; professor; programs; scale up

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The main objective of this planning grant is to develop an application for a physician-scientist training program centered on the elimination of mother-to-child transmission (eMTCT) research at the University of Nairobi. The physician-scientist is the critical link to translation of research innovations to standards of health care provision, however, the University of Nairobi, and most academic institutions in sub-Saharan Africa, lack integrated programs that provide physician-scientist training within current graduate professional training. As a result, few medical specialists trained exclusively in Africa are prepared to conduct research that will inform HIV care, treatment and prevention or have a major impact on healthcare policy and/or program design, performance, scale up and sustainability. This proposal to plan a physician-scientist training program builds on a strong foundation of highly qualified and experienced physician researchers at the University of Nairobi, including many former trainees in the Fogarty-funded University of Washington (UW) AIDS International Research and Training Program (AIRTP). After completing their training, these individuals have matured into independent investigators and made a significant mark on national, regional and global public health policy. These physician-scientists, from the University of Nairobi, led by Professor Ruth Nduati, in collaboration with colleagues from the University of Washington led by Dr. Carey Farquhar, propose to consolidate research on eMTCT by developing a program to train specialist physician-scientists (PhD, MMed/MPH, MMed/MSc) who can conduct high-level research, attract research grants and mentor others in research on eMTCT. In order to achieve this goal, the planning grant will: 1) Develop an implementation framework for physician-scientist training through consultative workshops with stakeholders and development of a strategic plan; 2) Build the curriculum for physician-scientists training by reviewing existing PhD, MMed, MPH and MSc curriculums and extending them to an integrated curriculum for physician-scientists; 3) Establish supervision and mentorship structures for trainee physician-scientist trainnes by identifying suitable supervisors, mentors and research sites. The proposed activities fit into the goal of the Kenya government to eliminate MTCT by 2015 through universal access to comprehensive PMTCT services and will create a model for training physician-scientists that can be replicated in other fields, not only at the University of Nairobi but in other parts of sub-Saharan Africa.

描述(由申请人提供)：这笔规划赠款的主要目标是申请内罗毕大学以消除母婴传播(EMTCT)研究为中心的医生-科学家培训方案。医生-科学家是将研究创新转化为卫生保健提供标准的关键环节，然而，内罗毕大学和撒哈拉以南非洲的大多数学术机构缺乏在目前的研究生专业培训中提供医生-科学家培训的综合方案。因此，很少有专门在非洲接受培训的医疗专家准备进行研究，为艾滋病毒的护理、治疗和预防提供信息，或对医疗政策和/或计划设计、绩效、扩大规模和可持续性产生重大影响。这项计划医生-科学家培训计划的建议建立在内罗毕大学高素质和经验丰富的医生研究人员的坚实基础上，其中包括许多曾在福格蒂资助的华盛顿大学艾滋病国际研究和培训计划(AIRTP)接受培训的学员。完成培训后，这些人已经成熟为独立的调查人员，并在国家、地区和全球公共卫生政策上留下了显著的印记。这些来自大学的内科科学家 由Ruth Nduati教授领导的内罗毕大学与Carey Farquhar博士领导的华盛顿大学的同事合作，提议通过开发一个项目来培训能够进行高水平研究、吸引研究资助并指导其他人进行eMTCT研究的专业内科科学家(博士、MMEd/mph、MMEd/MSc)，从而巩固对eMTCT的研究。为了实现这一目标，规划赠款将：1)通过与利益攸关方的协商讲习班和制定战略计划，为医生-科学家培训制定一个实施框架；2)通过审查现有的博士、MMED、公共卫生硕士和理科硕士课程并将其扩展到医生-科学家的综合课程，建立医生-科学家培训的课程；3)通过确定合适的主管、导师和研究地点，为实习医生-科学家培训建立监督和指导结构。拟议的活动符合肯尼亚政府的目标，即通过普及全面的防止母婴传播服务，在2015年前消除母婴传播，并将创建一个可在其他领域复制的医生-科学家培训模式，不仅在 在内罗毕，但在撒哈拉以南非洲的其他地区。