Brown Moi Partnership for Biostatistics Training in HIV

Brown Moi 艾滋病毒生物统计培训合作伙伴

• 批准号: 9301665
• 负责人: JOSEPH W HOGAN
• 金额: $ 29.84万
• 依托单位: BROWN UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-06-24 至 2020-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9301665
• 关键词: Africa South of the Sahara; African; Biological Sciences; Biometry; Biostatistical Methods; Canada; Caring; Consultations; Data; Development; Doctor of Philosophy; Educational Curriculum; Educational Status; Educational workshop; Epidemiology; Europe; Faculty; Foundations; Geography; Growth; HIV; Health; Health Sciences; Institution; International; Kenya; Methods; Nature; Physicians; Research; Research Infrastructure; Schools; Science; Scientist; Students; Teacher Professional Development; Training; Training Programs; United States; Universities; college; computer science; design; member; peer; physical science; programs; statistics; success

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The HIV research agenda in Kenya and sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is far-reaching. Much of it has been developed and carried out in partnership with institutions in the United States, Canada, and Europe, leading to gains in local capacity in terms infrastructure and professional development of scientists and physicians. One important domain where capacity building lags well behind is biostatistics and quantitative sciences: African biostatisticians are severely under-represented in international research teams, and many HIV research programs in SSA continue to rely on their western partners for implementation of advanced methods for design and analysis. Moreover, because most leading universities in SSA do not provide graduate-level training in statistics for health research, the pipeline is not being filled. Moi University in Eldoret, Kenya is typical in this regard. Although Moi is the secon university in Kenya and is associated with one of the largest HIV care and research programs in SSA, its College of Health Sciences has only one PhD-level biostatistician on faculty, no biostatistics courses beyond the introductory level. The Department of Statistics and Computer Science at the School of Biological and Physical Sciences offers advanced statistics courses, but they are highly theoretical in nature, with little or no connection to applications in health-related research, let alone HIV. Finally, the small number of African statisticians with advanced training working in HIV research centers in SSA tend to be geographically isolated from their peers, limiting opportunities for professional development and exchange of ideas that are necessary for high-quality scientific research. The proposed training program will respond to this need by establishing a partnership between Moi University Brown University. The program will expand research and curricular capacity in HIV-related biostatistics and advanced quantitative methods at Moi and lay the foundation for sustainable growth in this field by accomplishing the following Specific Aims: (1) providing graduate-level training in biostatistics and related fields,at Brown University, to highly qualified Kenyan candidates; (2) facilitating revision and expansion of the biostatistics curriculum at Moi through faculty development and close consultation with Brown faculty; (3) establishing an annual workshop on advanced biostatistical methods at Moi that will offer short-term training and ongoing professional development activities for faculty members and professionals with throughout SSA. This proposal builds directly upon the recent success of the Brown Fogarty AITRP. Since 2008, this program has supported graduate-level training in biostatistics and epidemiology for 4 Kenyan students, and in 2014 sponsored a highly successful one-week workshop on Causal Inference and Missing Data at Moi.

 描述（由申请人提供）：肯尼亚和撒哈拉以南非洲（SSA）的艾滋病毒研究议程意义深远。其中大部分是与美国、加拿大和欧洲的机构合作开发和实施的，从而在基础设施和科学家和医生的专业发展方面提高了当地的能力。能力建设远远落后的一个重要领域是生物统计学和定量科学：非洲生物统计学家在国际研究团队中的代表性严重不足，撒哈拉以南非洲的许多艾滋病毒研究项目继续依赖西方合作伙伴实施先进的设计和分析方法。此外，由于撒南非洲的大多数主要大学不提供卫生研究统计方面的研究生培训，因此这一渠道没有得到填补。肯尼亚埃尔多雷特的莫伊大学是这方面的典型。虽然莫伊是肯尼亚的第二所大学，并与撒哈拉以南非洲最大的艾滋病毒护理和研究项目之一有关，但其健康科学学院只有一名博士级生物统计学家，没有超过入门水平的生物统计学课程。生物和物理科学学院的统计和计算机科学系提供高级统计课程，但这些课程理论性很强，与健康相关研究的应用很少或根本没有联系，更不用说艾滋病毒了。最后，在撒南非洲艾滋病毒研究中心工作的少数受过高级培训的非洲统计人员往往在地理上与同行隔离，限制了高质量科学研究所需的专业发展和思想交流的机会。拟议的培训计划将通过与莫伊大学和布朗大学建立伙伴关系来满足这一需求。该方案将扩大研究和课程的能力，在艾滋病毒相关的生物统计学和先进的定量方法在莫伊和奠定基础，在这一领域的可持续发展，实现以下具体目标：（1）提供研究生水平的培训，在生物统计学和相关领域，在布朗大学，高素质的肯尼亚候选人;（2）通过教师发展和与布朗教师的密切磋商，促进修订和扩大Moi的生物统计学课程;（3）在Moi设立一个关于先进生物统计方法的年度讲习班，为整个SSA的教职员工和专业人员提供短期培训和持续的专业发展活动。这项建议直接建立在布朗福格蒂AITRP最近的成功。自2008年以来，该计划支持了4名肯尼亚学生的生物统计学和流行病学研究生培训，并于2014年在Moi赞助了一个非常成功的为期一周的因果推断和缺失数据研讨会。