Building Research in Inter-Disciplinary Gender and HIV through the Social Sciences (The BRIDGES Programme)

项目摘要/摘要 在过去的几年里，社会和行为科学部(DSB)-公共学院的一部分 开普敦大学(UCT)的健康和家庭医学-在其能力方面迅速增长 在艾滋病毒优先领域开展高质量、跨学科的社会科学研究。我们最近的增长， 然而，我主要专注于支持硕士学生从事广泛的艾滋病毒社会科学研究 研究项目。为了维持和巩固这些成果，该D43培训计划寻求投资于开发 我们的高级研究生培训-博士和博士后研究员-在我们部门的优先研究领域 性别和艾滋病毒。桥梁培训方案的总体目标是加强联合技术大学的能力 作为性别和艾滋病毒社会科学研究的全球领导者：a)帮助发展下一代 有能力对性别和艾滋病毒进行严谨、跨学科的社会科学研究的研究人员 (目标1)，和b)加强创新性别和艾滋病毒社会科学的机构培训平台 在南部/撒哈拉以南非洲的优先领域进行研究，既符合当地需求，也符合国家卫生研究院的艾滋病毒研究 优先事项(目标2和3)。桥梁计划将有助于巩固UCT作为特殊艾滋病毒患者的地位 社会科学研究机构通过密集培训4名博士解决紧迫的性别和艾滋病毒优先事项 和2名博士后研究员(目标1)，开发新的学期博士课程(2)和短期课程(3)，以 解决现有的培训差距(目标2)，并主办将提供培训的年度桥梁研讨会， 科罗拉多大学性别和艾滋病毒社会科学方面的网络和专业发展(目标3)。该项目削减了 在全球、国家和美国国立卫生研究院的两个重点专题领域内，艾滋病毒研究的“高度优先”：1) 减少青春期女孩和年轻妇女的艾滋病毒发病率，以及2)改善男性在 艾滋病病毒层出不穷。培训活动将通过与南部UCT的不同团队合作进行 来自布朗大学(主要合作者)德斯蒙德·图图的非洲和国际合作调查员 艾滋病基金会(DTHF)、南非医学研究理事会(SAMRC)和桑克性别正义。这个 桥梁的成功将通过我们的机构能力来衡量，以维持一个高效、创新、 与Transans-NIH合作的跨学科艾滋病毒社会科学研究的响应和影响方案 艾滋病毒相关研究计划。加强大学这方面的研究能力尤其重要 鉴于该大学在公共卫生的其他方面与艾滋病毒有关的创新的良好记录，这一点很重要 健康。

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT Over the last few years, the Division of Social and Behavioural Sciences (DSBS) – part of the School of Public Health and Family Medicine at the University of Cape Town (UCT) – has grown rapidly in its capacity to conduct high-quality, interdisciplinary social science research in priority HIV areas. Our recent growth, however, has focused primarily on supporting Master’s students working on a wide array of HIV social science research projects. To sustain and build on these gains, this D43 training program seeks to invest in developing our advanced graduate training—of PhD and Postdoctoral Fellows—in our Division’s priority research area of Gender and HIV. The overall objective of the BRIDGES training program is to strengthen UCT’s capacity to serve as a global leader in gender and HIV social science research by: a) helping develop the next generation of researchers capable of conducting rigorous, interdisciplinary social science research on gender and HIV (Aim 1), and b) strengthening the institutional training platform for innovative gender and HIV social science research in South/sub-Saharan Africa in priority areas aligned with both local needs and NIH HIV research priorities (Aims 2 and 3). The BRIDGES Programme will help consolidate UCT’s place as an exceptional HIV social science research institution addressing urgent gender and HIV priorities by intensively training 4 PhD and 2 Postdoctoral Fellows (Aim 1), developing new semester PhD courses (2) and short courses (3) to address existing training gaps (Aim 2), and hosting an Annual BRIDGES Symposium that will offer training, networking and professional development in gender and HIV social science at UCT (Aim 3). The project cuts across global, national and NIH “high priorities” for HIV research in its two Thematic Areas of focus: 1) Reducing HIV incidence in adolescent girls and young women, and 2) Improving the performance of men in the HIV cascade. Training activities will be delivered through collaboration with a diverse team of UCT, South African, and international co-investigators drawn from Brown University (key collaborator), the Desmond Tutu HIV Foundation (DTHF), South African Medical Research Council (SAMRC), and Sonke Gender Justice. The success of BRIDGES will be measured by our institutional capacity to sustain a productive, innovative, responsive and impactful program of interdisciplinary HIV social science research aligned with the Trans-NIH Plan for HIV-Related Research. Strengthening this aspect of the University’s research capacity is particularly important in light of the University’s strong track record of HIV-related innovation in other aspects of public health.