Enhanced Advanced Biomedical Research Training for Mozambique

 描述(由申请者提供)：具体目标1：研究生(硕士和博士)水平的课程开发。我们将继续在UEM开发研究生水平的课程，开发建立生物医学博士学位课程所需的课程和教师。我们将加强UEM现有教员和马普托国立索德学院(INS)马普托中央医院(MCH)高级研究人员的教育和研究能力，提供结构化的教师发展计划，包括授课和纵向对等指导的教师发展部分。经过仔细的需求评估和培训咨询委员会的持续建议，我们将开发课程，以补充现有的课程，以便在该项目的第四年，UEM将建立在我国培训莫桑比克博士生的能力。具体目标2：培训下一代莫桑比克生物医学研究人员。在这一具体目标下，我们将为两组学生提供艾滋病毒及其并发症、神经科学和儿童与家庭健康方面的辅导培训机会。在次级目标2a下，我们为15-20名来自密歇根大学的初级教员、来自移民局的博士级别的工作人员或在母婴健康院完成医学或儿科培训的医生提供研究方法方面的培训。在第一年期间，最初在MEPI第一个赠款周期中开发的关于资助金、研究管理、手稿写作、研究伦理和其他相关主题的培训模块将得到加强，并将提供给D43培训教员中选定的成员。这些人将从指导中受益，并将成为这一计划的核心教师。在D43课程的第二年，我们将招募第一批5名初级教员加入该计划。这些人将在项目的第一年完成课程模块，然后在为每个学生成立的跨国指导委员会的指导下完成一个有指导的研究项目。在次要目标2b项下，我们会从新纪元超过30名已完成硕士课程的初级职员，以及已完成由环保部设计和推行的硕士课程的内科或儿科医生招聘人手，以补充母婴健康院的临床训练。我们将在D43的第二年和第三年每年招收4名博士生，在第四和第五年每年再招收3名博士生。博士生将与一名论文导师和一个多国论文委员会合作，制定一个由UEM和财团合作伙伴(UCSD、巴伊亚联邦大学和斯泰伦博什大学)进行的课程和莫桑比克境内的一个博士论文项目。每名学生将获得一年的课程学习支持，以补充他们之前硕士课程的内容。在此之后，将在其论文委员会的指导下，在莫桑比克进行为期一年的指导研究。到项目结束时，11名学生将完成整个项目，另外3名学生将完成博士学位所需的课程。具体目标3：加强莫桑比克境内的研究管理能力。在这一具体目标下，我们将继续加强莫桑比克国内的研究行政能力，为我们的行政支助股(MIHER)、UEM和移民局的研究行政专业人员提供有系统的培训机会。根据这一具体目标，我们还将向参加具体目标2所列方案的所有受训人员提供研究管理和生物伦理方面的补充培训。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Specific Aim1: Graduate (Masters and PhD) level curriculum development. We will continue to develop graduate level curriculum at UEM by developing the coursework and faculty required to establish a PhD in Biomedical Sciences degree program. We will strengthen the educational and research capabilities of existing faculty at UEM and senior research staff at the closely affiliated Instituto Nacional de Saude (INS) Maputo Central Hospital (MCH) by offering a structured faculty development program that features both didactic and longitudinal peer-to-peer mentored faculty development components. After a careful needs assessment and with ongoing advice from the Training Advisory Committee we will develop coursework to complement existing offerings so that by year four of this program, UEM will have established the capability to train Mozambican doctoral students within our country. Specific Aim 2: Training the next generation of Mozambican Biomedical Researchers. Under this specific aim, we will offer mentored training opportunities in HIV and its complications, neurosciences and child and family health to two groups of students. Under sub-aim 2a, we provide training in research methodology to 15 - 20 junior faculty from UEM, doctoral level staff members from the INS or medical doctors who have completed training in medicine or pediatrics at MCH. During year 1 training modules that were initially developed in the first MEPI grant cycle on grantsmanship, research management, manuscript writing, research ethics and other related topics will be strengthened and offered to selected members of the training faculty of this D43. These individuals will both benefit from the instruction and wll become the core faculty for this program going forward. During year 2 of the D43 we will recruit the first group of 5 junior faculty into the program. These individuals will complete the course modules during their first year in the program and will then complete a mentored research project under the direction of a multinational mentorship committee that is formed for each student. Under sub-aim2b, we will recruit from a group of over 30 junior staff at INS who have completed Masters training and from internal medicine or pediatric physicians who have completed a masters program designed and implemented by the MEPI to supplement clinical training received at MCH. We will recruit 4 PhD candidates each year in years 2 and 3 of this D43 and an additional 3 each year during years 4 and 5. PhD candidates will work with a thesis advisor and a multinational thesis committee to develop a program consisting of coursework undertaken at UEM and consortium partners (UCSD, the Federal University of Bahia and Stellenbosch University) and a PhD thesis project within Mozambique. Each student will be supported for a year of coursework to augment the content of their prior masters coursework. This will be followed by a year of mentored research within Mozambique under the direction of their thesis committee. By the end of the program 11 students will have completed the entire program and an additional three will have completed the necessary coursework for the PhD degree. Specific Aim 3: Strengthening Research Administration Capacity within Mozambique. Under this specific aim we will continue to strengthen research administrative capacity within Mozambique by offering structured training opportunities to research administrative professionals based at our administrative support unit (MIHER), UEM and the INS. Under this specific aim we will also offer supplemental training in research management and bioethics to all trainees participating in the program outlined under Specific Aim 2.