1/2 - GEOHealth Hub for Research and Training in eastern Africa - Ethiopia

1/2 - 东非 GEOHealth 研究和培训中心 - 埃塞俄比亚

• 批准号: 9765434
• 负责人: Kiros T Berhane
• 金额: $ 16.61万
• 依托单位: ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-09-28 至 2022-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9765434
• 关键词: Address; African; Air; Air Pollution; Area; Biometry; California; Capital; Case Study; Child; Childhood; Chronic; Cities; Cohort Studies; Collaborations; Communication; Competence; Complement; Country; Development; Eastern Africa; Education; Educational workshop; Environment; Environmental Health; Environmental Monitoring; Environmental Risk Factor; Environmental and Occupational Exposure; Epidemiology; Ethiopia; Evaluation; Flowers; Fostering; Funding; Future; Goals; Government; Guidelines; Health; Heat Stress Disorders; Hospitalization; Indoor Air Pollution; Industrialization; Industry; Infrastructure; Institution; Interdisciplinary Study; Kenya; Lead; Leadership; Length; Link; Measures; Modality; Modeling; Monitor; Needs Assessment; Occupational; Occupational Exposure; Occupational Health; Paper; Participant; Persons; Phase; Pilot Projects; Play; Policies; Policy Making; Pre-Par; Principal Investigator; Regulation; Research; Research Activity; Research Personnel; Research Training; Resources; Respiratory Signs and Symptoms; Respiratory physiology; Role; Rwanda; Schedule; Scientist; Structure; Sustainable Development; System; Telephone; Temperature; Time; Training; Training Activity; Training Programs; Translational Research; Translations; Uganda; Universities; Urbanization; Variant; Vision; Wisconsin; adverse outcome; ambient air pollution; base; burden of illness; climate change; cohort; design; environmental change; evidence base; experience; flexibility; innovation; learning materials; low and middle-income countries; meetings; mortality; occupational health/safety; programs; public health relevance; restraint; skills; success; symposium; training opportunity; trend; web site

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application proposes a progressive and tiered training program that will develop researchers and research teams able to carry out the research agenda in the linked UO1 application (1/2 - GEOHealth Hub for Research and Training in eastern Africa - Ethiopia) and to facilitate the translation of the evidence into impactful actions. The training program will be implemented in collaboration with Addis Ababa University (AAU) in Ethiopia, the Hub institution for the linked application; the Spoke institutions are in Kenya, Rwanda, and Uganda. The training program will build the competencies needed to address the research themes identified as most critical in the Situational Analysis and Needs Assessments (SANA) carried out during the planning phase: indoor and outdoor air pollution as the leading theme; occupational health, particularly in regard to temperature and air pollution, and climate change and health as secondary themes. The team assembled for the U2R application includes experienced researchers and educators from the University of Southern California and the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-M), both groups having collaborated with AAU previously. The SANAs document a shared need across the Hub and Spokes for enhanced research capacity, along with skills in policy translation in the domestic and regional context. Our approach responds to these broad needs and involves a tiered training program that will create scientific leaders (Lead Scientists) at the national level who can function as principal investigators for research that provides evidence relevant to national and regional issues. They will also be expected to take leadership for locally developed training and to help to assure sustainability. Three cohorts of four will be identified and trained. Beyond these national leads, we anticipate a broad array of shorter-term training opportunities that will prepar the research teams to address the thematic areas of the Hub's research program. The national lead investigators will play a collaborative and progressive role in the design and implementation of the national and regional training initiatives. Given the feasibility restraints posed by financial resources, distance, and the need to integrate training into the ongoing responsibilities of trainees, we plan to use a flexible array of educational modalities that will include stays of limited length at USC and the UW-M; in-country workshops and short courses; distance-based approaches that are both asynchronous and synchronous; and use of selected local courses, e.g., in epidemiology or biostatistics. We will also use innovative approaches to facilitate translation that involve education and engagement of stakeholders. Evaluation will track the success of the participants in meeting their development goals on the short-term and, for the longer-term, successful completion of the proposed research, scientific presentations and papers, and successful funding applications. Through careful case-studies, we will examine the impact of the trainees on policy indicators, such as new air quality standards and guidelines, regulations, and changes in practices.

 描述（由申请人提供）：本申请提出了一个渐进和分层的培训计划，将培养能够在相关UO 1申请（1/2 -东非-埃塞俄比亚的GEOHealth研究和培训中心）中开展研究议程的研究人员和研究团队，并促进将证据转化为有影响力的行动。培训计划将与埃塞俄比亚的阿迪斯大学（AAU）合作实施，该大学是链接应用程序的中心机构;辐条机构位于肯尼亚，卢旺达和乌干达。该培训计划将培养解决规划阶段进行的情景分析和需求评估（SANA）中确定的最关键研究主题所需的能力：室内和室外空气污染为主导主题;职业健康，特别是在温度和空气污染方面，以及气候变化和健康作为次要主题。为U2 R申请而组建的团队包括来自南加州大学和威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校（UW-M）的经验丰富的研究人员和教育工作者，这两个团队以前都与AAU合作过。SANA记录了整个辐射中心对增强研究能力的共同需求，沿着的是在国内和区域背景下的政策翻译技能。我们的方法响应这些广泛的需求，并涉及一个分层的培训计划，将在国家一级创建科学领导者（首席科学家），他们可以作为主要研究者，为国家和地区问题提供相关证据。他们还将领导当地开发的培训，并帮助确保可持续性。将确定并培训三个小组，每组四人。除了这些国家领导人，我们预计将准备研究团队，以解决枢纽的研究计划的主题领域的短期培训机会广泛。国家首席调查员将在设计和实施国家和区域培训举措方面发挥协作和渐进的作用。考虑到财政资源、距离以及将培训纳入受训人员持续责任的必要性所带来的可行性限制，我们计划使用一系列灵活的教育模式，包括在南加州大学和密歇根大学停留有限的时间;国内讲习班和短期课程;异步和同步的远程方法;以及使用选定的当地课程，例如，流行病学或生物统计学。我们还将使用创新方法来促进涉及教育和利益相关者参与的翻译。评价将跟踪参与者在短期内实现其发展目标的成功情况，并在长期内跟踪参与者成功完成拟议的研究、科学介绍和论文以及成功申请资助的情况。透过仔细的个案研究，我们会探讨学员对政策指标的影响，例如新的空气质素标准和指引、规例，以及做法上的改变。