Building Research Capacity to Address the Challenge of Non Communicable Diseases and Injuries in Rwanda The GUKORANA Research Center

建设研究能力以应对卢旺达非传染性疾病和伤害的挑战 GUKORANA 研究中心

• 批准号: 9337096
• 负责人: PHILIP E CASTLE
• 金额: $ 34.06万
• 依托单位: ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE, INC
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-09-19 至 2019-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9337096
• 关键词: Address; African; Area; Biomedical Research; Biometry; Brain Injuries; Cancer Burden; Cancer Diagnostics; Caring; Centers of Research Excellence; Collaborations; Communities; Computerized Medical Record; Conceptions; Data; Data Collection; Databases; Decision Making; Development Plans; Discipline; Disease; Doctor of Philosophy; Epidemiology; Fostering; Funding; Goals; Grant; Health; Hospitals; Human; Individual; Information Systems; Information Technology; Injury; Institution; International; Language; Lateral; Malignant Neoplasms; Medicine; Military Hospitals; Modeling; Names; Outcome; Patterns of Care; Policies; Prevention; Process; Public Health; Public Health Informatics; Public Policy; Research; Research Activity; Research Infrastructure; Research Support; Resources; Rwanda; System; Technical Expertise; Training and Education; Traumatic Brain Injury; Universities; Virginia; behavioral/social science; burden of illness; clinical care; clinical practice; college; data management; design; disorder prevention; effectiveness research; electronic data; health economics; improved; injury burden; injury prevention; medical schools; programs; statistics; systems research; training opportunity

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT The primary goal of this proposal is to plan for the development of and launch a sustainable Regional Center of Research Excellence (RCRE) for non-communicable diseases and injuries (NCDIs) in Rwanda. To accomplish this goal, we will establish a bi-lateral, multi-institutional, US-Rwanda collaboration to 1) conduct a rigorous landscape analysis of local infrastructure and human capacities and 2) initiate activities to address gaps in capacity for conducting NCDI research and establishing a RCRE in Rwanda. The initial focus will be on two core areas, cancer and injury, and we will conduct training and education to perform high-quality research in these core areas, and developing the electronic data infrastructure and administration needed to establish/improve disease registration for research purposes. This application leverages long- standing, pre-existing partnerships between Albert Einstein College of Medicine (AECOM), University of Rwanda (UR), Rwanda Military Hospital (RMH), Harvard University Medical School (HMS), Partners in Health (PIH), Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), King Faisal Hospital, and the Rwanda Biomedical Center (RBC) of the Rwanda Ministry of Health (MOH). The plans for and the subsequent establishment of a RCRE in NCDI will improve the efficiency and effectiveness of research supported by each of these individual institutions by uniting efforts and fostering collaboration within the RCRE and other Rwandan stakeholders. The proposed name of the center is “GUKORANYA” (Global University Consortium for Research in Non- communicable diseases and InjurY) Research Center (GRC). In Kinyarwanda, the national language of Rwanda, the word `gukoranya' means `to gather together'. After building the necessary research capacities and infrastructure, this center will assess the burden of cancer and injury in Rwanda and develop feasible and effective research strategies to inform the public policy and clinical practices for the prevention and treatment of these conditions.

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