Enabling Infectious Disease Research Capacity in the Peruvian Amazon

项目摘要 秘鲁在公共卫生研究方面的地位正在迅速提高，许多成功的秘鲁-美国研究 通过在利马各大大学提供培训赠款，研究小组扩大了研究能力。许多 这些伙伴关系有卫星活动，研究秘鲁主要城市伊基托斯的传染病， 亚马逊，但这些研究和能力建设活动在很大程度上绕过了学术机构，在 伊基托斯D43培训补助金是专门为解决和纠正这一差距而设计的， 与秘鲁亚马逊国立大学合作的合作研究培训计划 (UNAP秘鲁亚马逊国立大学），该地区最大的健康教育机构。在 这次更新，我们的目标是继续扩大当地训练有素的专业人员队伍， 卫生和传染病研究技能，我们建议通过继续培训三名 目前的学员对公共卫生博士课程在联合国亚太办事处，并收到两个传入 在联合国艾滋病规划署，专科医生受训人员完成公共卫生硕士学位。这种密集， 指导培训计划，包括南北和南南培训部分，将由教师领导 来自四个合作机构（联合国亚太经社会、弗吉尼亚大学、秘鲁卡耶塔诺埃雷迪亚大学[ 秘鲁领先的生物医学研究大学，位于利马]，杜兰大学， Arizona（UA））.大部分培训将通过培训单元在联合国国家适应计划当地进行， 在线组件。我们将补充两年的MPH计划在UNAP与补充，短期 由UVA，Tulane，UPCH，UA和USDA教师领导的培训模块将向所有MPH和博士开放 学生在UNAP计划，扩大培训计划的影响，约80个额外的 10名硕士和10名博士。模块将专门侧重于人类受试者 培训，研究的严谨性和可重复性，科学写作和资助写作，数据管理和 在秘鲁和美国研究的可视化、科学交流和监管方面。密切合作 与UNAP教师，我们将整合新的程序内容到现有的MPH和博士课程， 为未来的UNAP MPH和博士班提供可持续的持续利益。MPH和博士 受训人员将通过在编写和组装福格蒂国际的领导作用，结束他们的培训 中心全球健康奖学金，而另外，博士水平的学生将追求一个专业的种子 格兰特[秘鲁科学、技术和技术创新顾问机构]，总理 秘鲁的科学资助机构）在一个指导小组的指导下。我们将继续提供一个月的 在第2-5年期间，还将举办短期课程，培训社区实地工作人员和实验室支持人员， 提供，扩大了伊基托斯的研究计划支持人员的池。

PROJECT SUMMARY Peru is rapidly increasing in stature in public health research, and many successful Peruvian-US research teams have expanded research capacity through training grants based in major universities in Lima. Many of these partnerships have satellite activities to study infectious diseases in Iquitos, the major city in the Peruvian Amazon, but these research and capacity building activities have largely bypassed academic institutions in Iquitos. This D43 training grant is specifically designed to address and correct this disparity, offering a collaborative research training program in partnership with the Universidad Nacional de la Amazonia Peruana (UNAP; National University of the Peruvian Amazon), the largest health education institution in the region. In this renewal, our goal is to continue expanding the local workforce of highly trained professionals with public health and infectious diseases research skills, which we propose to achieve by continuing the training of three current trainees on towards the Doctoral Program in Public Health at UNAP and receive two incoming specialist physicians trainees to complete a master’s degree in public health at UNAP. This intensive, mentored training program with both north-south and south-south training components will be led by faculty from four collaborating institutions (UNAP, University of Virginia, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia [the leading biomedical research university in Peru, located in Lima], Tulane University, and the University of Arizona (UA)). The majority of the training will be conducted locally at UNAP through training modules and online components. We will supplement the two-year MPH program at UNAP with complementary, short-term training modules led by UVA, Tulane, UPCH, UA and USDA faculty that will be open to all MPH and doctoral students in the UNAP program, expanding the impact of the training program to approximately 80 additional master’s level trainees and 10 doctoral level trainees. Modules will be specifically focused on human subjects training, rigor and reproducibility of research, scientific writing and grant writing, data management and visualization, scientific communication and regulatory aspects of research in Peru and the US. Working closely with UNAP faculty, we will integrate new program content into the existing MPH and Doctoral curriculum, providing sustainable, ongoing benefits for future UNAP MPH and Doctoral classes. MPH and Doctoral trainees will conclude their training by taking a leading role in writing and assembling a Fogarty International Center Global Health Fellowship, while additionally, Doctoral level students will pursue a Prociencia Seed Grant [entity of the Peruvian Counsel on Science, Technology, and Technological Innovation], the premier scientific funding agency in Peru) under the direction of a mentoring team. We will continue to offer one-month short courses during Years 2-5 for training community field workers and laboratory support staff will also be offered, expanding the pool of research program support staff in Iquitos.