Global Infectious Diseases Research Training Program

摘要 西印度群岛大学莫纳校区和牙买加卫生部已经确定了目标 将建立病毒学研究计划作为国家卫生的最高优先事项之一。该计划 将需要培训基础、翻译和临床科学家，这将是全球 本申请中描述的传染病研究培训计划。全球传染病 研究培训计划指导计划是在为期三年的规划期内制定的，将 由布法罗大学、北州医科大学和西部大学的教职员工领导 印度群岛。培训将集中在西印度群岛大学莫纳校区录取的候选人 硕士、博士和博士后课程。具体目标包括：1)培养年轻调查人员的核心 通过提供基于指导性课程和核心实验室的“增值”研究培训 共同强调研究设计、方法和分析技术以解决病毒学问题的经验 牙买加面临的研究问题，2)提供综合指导计划，促进 创新研究，提高学员构思和思考研究问题的能力 随着独立性的提高和3)培养未来的病毒学研究领导者，他们将建立 外部资助的研究项目和指导下一代研究生和研究员。 培训目标是培养15名在以下一个或多个领域具有专门知识的独立研究人员： 植物病毒学、病毒性肝炎、慢性病毒感染、抗病毒药物开发、生物信息学和实验室 科学。这一目标将通过一种协作的指导方法来实现，定制的 课程基于每个受训人员的个性化发展计划和病毒学研究技能工具箱。 受训人员将在美国实验室进行短期培训，由具有广泛经验的教师指导 在病毒学、免疫学和药理学研究方面的经验，同时在 西印度群岛大学建立了能力建设和一个独立的病毒学研究小组。这个 拟议的GIDRTP将解决与病毒疾病有关的重要公共卫生挑战，并保持一致 与牙买加实现与卫生有关的可持续发展目标的现有计划相一致。

ABSTRACT The University of the West Indies Mona Campus and the Ministry of Health, Jamaica have identified the goal of establishing a Virology Research Program as one of the highest national health priorities. The program will require training basic, translational and clinical scientists and this will be the responsibility of the Global Infectious Diseases Research Training Program described in this application. The Global Infectious Diseases Research Training Program mentoring program was developed during a three-year planning period and will be led by faculty from the University at Buffalo, Upstate Medical University and the University of the West Indies. Training will focus on candidates at the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus who are enrolled in Master's, PhD, and post-doctoral programs. Specific aims include: 1) Create a core of young investigators by providing a “value added” research training based on a mentored curriculum and core laboratory experiences that jointly emphasize research design, methods and analytic techniques to address virology research questions that confront Jamaica, 2) Provide an integrated mentoring program that fosters innovative research and enhances the trainees' ability to conceptualize and think through research problems with increasing independence and 3) Develop future research leaders in virology who will establish extramurally funded research programs and mentor the next generation of graduate students and fellows. The training objective is to develop 15 independent researchers with expertise in one or more of these areas: arbovirology, viral hepatitis, chronic viral infection, antiviral drug development, bioinformatics, and laboratory sciences. This objective will be accomplished by a collaborative approach to mentoring, a customized curricula based on each trainee's individualized development plan and a Virology Research Skills Toolbox. Trainees will have short-term periods in US laboratories directed by faculty mentors with extensive experience in virology, immunology and pharmacology research while completing their research at the University of the West Indies resulting in capacity building and an independent virology research team. The proposed GIDRTP will address important public health challenges related to viral disease and be consistent with current plans for achieving sustainable development goals related to health in Jamaica.