GID PLANNING GRANT:DEVELOPMENT OF A PHYSICIAN SCIENTIST RESEARCH TRAINING PROGRAM IN KENYA

GID 规划拨款：在肯尼亚开展医师科学家研究培训计划

• 批准号: 8898926
• 负责人: Godfrey Nsereko Lule
• 金额: $ 2.8万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-05-01 至 2017-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8898926
• 关键词: AIDS prevention; Achievement; Adult; Africa; Anti-Retroviral Agents; Area; Baltimore; Caring; Clinical; Collaborations; Communicable Diseases; Country; Developed Countries; Developing Countries; Development; Disease Management; Doctor of Philosophy; Educational Curriculum; Educational Status; Educational process of instructing; Enrollment; Environment; Epidemiologist; Faculty; Fellowship; Funding; Future; Grant; HIV; Health care facility; Human Resources; Infection; Infectious Diseases Research; Institution; International; Kenya; Knowledge; Leadership; Learning; Local Government; Logistics; Maryland; Medicine; Methods; Outcome; Output; Pathologist; Patients; Phase; Physicians; Prevalence; Research; Research Training; Resources; Scientist; Services; Structure; Students; Supervision; Training; Training Programs; Universities; co-infection; medical schools; pediatrician; programs; research and development; scale up

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): RACT Development of research training networks is a successful method of stimulating research output and collaborations between institutions in developing and developed countries [1]. In the year 2010 University of Nairobi (UoN), Kenya and University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) signed a memorandum of understanding to support collaborations between the two universities in the area of training and research in infectious disease. The outcome of this collaboration has led to significant improvements in infectious disease capacity, research and training opportunities in Kenya. Currently, the adult national HIV prevalence is 5.6%; only 63% of patients eligible for anti- retroviral therapy (ART) are on treatment, and only 78% of these patients have achieved virological suppression [2]. Although there have been numerous achievements in the scale up of HIV prevention, care and treatment services in Kenya, there are still significant gaps in provision of care. Local government funding and international donor aid provided to support HIV service provision and research over the past three decades, has placed considerably less emphasis on HIV co-infections. As a result of the shortcomings in infectious disease research training, doctors in Kenya are usually consumers rather than discoverers of new knowledge. This is a state not only witnessed in Kenya, but replicated in most countries throughout Africa. We propose 3 tracks of doctoral level training to support human resource capacity for research in HIV con-infections: i. PhD training for the current infectious disease faculty at the Unit of Clinical Infectious Disease, UoN. This first phase of the training will focus on developing faculty to supervise future trainees The faculty will provide future supervision to students enrolled into the other PhD programs. The ID faculty include infectious disease physicians, infectious disease paediatricians, microbiologists, epidemiologists and pathologists. ii. An Infectious disease intercalated Fellowship/PhD program. Fellows will be offered an additional 2 years of research leading up to a PhD. Fellows will not only act as future ID faculty but will also be deployed to Ministry of Health facilities where they will provide leadership in infectious disease management and research iii. As an add on to the current Master of Medicine degree courses offered at the University of Nairobi leading to a combined Master of Medicine/PhD intercalated program (MMed/PhD). The proposed training programs combine the strengths of clinical training at University of Nairobi with PhD training at University of Maryland. In order to build a curriculum appropriate to the Kenyan student, a period of assessment of teaching and learning resources, logistics, feasibility and faculty available at both institutions is required. The planning grant wll have three distinct aims essential to the development of the PhD training programs; AIM 1: To establish the need for and structure of the advanced research training programs at the School of Medicine, University of Nairobi AIM 2: To establish the available training environment at the collaborating institutions and additional resources needed to establish the advanced research program at the School of Medicine, University of Nairobi AIM 3: To develop and implement a framework for the establishment of the advanced research training programs at the School of Medicine, University of Nairobi.

 描述（由申请人提供）：RACT发展研究培训网络是促进发展中国家和发达国家机构之间研究产出和合作的成功方法[1]。2010年，肯尼亚内罗毕大学（UoN）和巴尔的摩马里兰州大学（UMB）签署了一份谅解备忘录，以支持两所大学在传染病培训和研究领域的合作。这一合作的成果使肯尼亚的传染病能力、研究和培训机会得到了显著改善。目前，全国成人艾滋病毒流行率为5.6%;只有63%的符合抗逆转录病毒治疗（ART）条件的患者正在接受治疗，其中只有78%的患者实现了病毒学抑制[2]。虽然肯尼亚在扩大艾滋病毒预防、护理和治疗服务方面取得了许多成就，但在提供护理方面仍存在重大差距。过去30年来，地方政府为支持艾滋病毒服务的提供和研究而提供的资金和国际捐助者的援助大大减少了对艾滋病毒合并感染的重视。由于传染病研究培训方面的不足，肯尼亚的医生通常是新知识的消费者而不是发现者。这种情况不仅发生在肯尼亚，而且在整个非洲的大多数国家都有发生。我们提出了3个博士水平的培训轨道，以支持在艾滋病毒感染研究的人力资源能力：i。在临床传染病单位为目前的传染病学院提供博士培训， UoN。培训的第一阶段将侧重于培养教师，以监督未来的学员。教师将提供未来的监督，以学生报名参加其他博士课程。ID教师包括传染病医生，传染病儿科医生，微生物学家，流行病学家和病理学家。 二.一个传染病插入奖学金/博士课程。研究员将被提供额外的2年的研究导致博士学位。研究员不仅将作为未来的ID教师，而且还将被部署到卫生部的设施，在那里他们将在传染病管理和研究iii提供领导。作为对目前在内罗毕大学提供的医学硕士学位课程的补充，导致医学硕士/博士混合课程（MMed/PhD）。拟议的培训计划将联合收割机的优势，临床培训在内罗毕大学与博士培训在马里兰州。为了建立一个适合肯尼亚学生的课程，需要一段时间的教学和学习资源，后勤，可行性和教师在这两个机构的评估。规划补助金将有三个不同的目标必不可少的博士培训计划的发展;目的1：建立在医学院，内罗毕大学先进的研究培训计划的需要和结构目的2：为了在合作机构建立可用的培训环境和在医学院建立高级研究计划所需的额外资源，内罗毕大学 目标3：制定和实施一个框架，以便在内罗毕大学医学院建立高级研究培训方案。