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: 10022589
• 负责人: Kiros T Berhane
• 金额: $ 1.74万
• 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/10022589
• 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式分层培训计划，该计划将培养研究人员和研究团队能够执行链接的 UO1 应用（1/2 - 东非 GEOHealth 研究和培训中心 - 埃塞俄比亚）中的研究议程，并促进将证据转化为有影响力的行动。该培训计划将与埃塞俄比亚亚的斯亚贝巴大学（AAU）合作实施，该大学是链接应用程序的中心机构； Spoke 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况分析和需求评估（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作为主导主题；职业健康，特别是温度和空气污染，以及气候变化和健康作为次要主题。为 U2R 申请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，这两个团队之前都曾与 AAU 合作过。 SANA 记录了整个中心和辐射中心对增强研究能力以及国内和区域背景下的政策转化技能的共同需求。我们的方法响应了这些广泛的需求，并涉及分层培训计划，该计划将培养国家级的科学领导者（首席科学家），他们可以作为研究的主要研究者，提供与国家和地区问题相关的证据。他们还将被期望领导当地开发的培训并帮助确保可持续性。将确定并培训三组四人组。除了这些国家领导之外，我们预计还会有一系列广泛的短期培训机会，帮助研究团队做好准备，以解决该中心研究计划的主题领域。国家首席调查员将在国家和区域培训举措的设计和实施中发挥协作和进步的作用。考虑到财政资源、距离以及将培训纳入学员持续职责的必要性等可行性限制，我们计划采用一系列灵活的教育方式，其中包括在南加州大学和威斯康星大学密西根分校进行有限时间的停留；国内讲习班和短期课程；基于距离的异步和同步方法；以及使用选定的当地课程，例如流行病学或生物统计学课程。我们还将使用创新方法来促进翻译，其中涉及利益相关者的教育和参与。评估将跟踪参与者是否成功实现其短期发展目标，以及从长期来看，成功完成拟议的研究、科学演示和论文以及成功的资助申请。通过仔细的案例研究，我们将研究学员对政策指标的影响，例如新的空气质量标准和指南、法规以及实践变化。