Training in Infectious Disease Epidemiology (TIDE)

摘要 正如2019冠状病毒病大流行所戏剧性地说明的那样，地方性和流行性传染性 随着世界变得更加相互关联，疾病构成的全球危险日益增加。然而，在这方面， 从事传染病（ID）流行病学家培训的机构相对较少。 在那些受过训练的人中，相对较少的人能够在实验室科学的十字路口工作 以及基于人群的临床和行为研究。 流行病学部正在申请第四个5年资助周期，用于我们的培训， ID流行病学（TIDE）NIAID T32。我们的TIDE计划在T32中占据了独特的位置 作为仅有的七个以传染病流行病学为重点的培训赠款之一（177个 活性NIAID T32）。我们的计划在几个方面都非常成功。第一，有动力 从T32开始，我们开发了ID流行病学的核心课程，并确保我们所有的学生都能 学员们接触到跨学科的方法来ID研究。我们有三个博士学位 在过去15年中，每年都有一个实习生名额，在过去10年中，每年都有一个博士后名额。 第二，我们的学员在获得ID流行病学工作方面非常成功。的 30名学员已完成培训计划，14人获得学术任命（6 终身教职，6个研究或临床轨道，2个博士后）和10个在疾病预防控制中心，无论是在EIS或 作为全职员工。其他人（n==6）都在其他公共部门担任研究职位 卫生组织或机构。第三，过去两年来， 在过去的两个资助周期中，24名受训人员中有6人（25%）的年龄低于- 代表少数民族。我们的女性受训人员比例也很高（迄今为止为77%）。 在下一个五年周期，我们计划继续强调跨学科研究， 我们的三个专题研究领域ID微生物学，社会对ID流行病学的影响， ID临床研究。我们的预博士都将把跨学科的工作纳入他们的研究。 我们的博士后将被要求做跨学科的研究与共同导师-一 流行病学家加一个“跨学科”的共同导师，在实验室，行为或 传染病的临床研究方面。此外，我们计划进一步加强 专业发展培训和我们对少数族裔候选人的外联工作。 总而言之，我们希望在该培训计划迄今取得的显著成功的基础上， 继续培养优秀的年轻传染病流行病学家， 公共卫生需要。

ABSTRACT As dramatically illustrated by the CoVID-19 pandemic, endemic and epidemic infectious diseases pose increasing global danger as the world becomes more interconnected. However, there are relatively few institutions engaged in training infectious disease (ID) epidemiologists. Of those that are trained, relatively few are equipped to work at the crossroads of lab science and population-based clinical and behavioral research. The UNC Epidemiology Department is applying for a 4th 5-year funding cycle for our Training in ID Epidemiology (TIDE) NIAID T32. Our TIDE program occupies a unique niche in the T32 portfolio at NIAID as one of only seven training grants with an ID epidemiology focus (out of 177 active NIAID T32s). Our program has been very successful in several ways. First, with impetus from the T32, we developed a core curriculum in ID epidemiology and made sure that all of our trainees were exposed to interdisciplinary approaches to ID research. We have had three PhD trainee slots per year for all 15 years, and one post-doc slot per year for the past 10 years. Second, our trainees have been highly successful in obtaining jobs in ID epidemiology. Of the 30 trainees who have finished their training programs, 14 have academic appointments (6 tenure-track, 6 research or clinical track, 2 postdoc) and 10 are at the CDC, either in the EIS or as full-time employees. The others (n==6) all have research-focused positions in other public health organizations or agencies. Third, our efforts at increasing diversity over the past two cycles have paid off: 6 of the 24 trainees in our last two funding cycles (25%) have been under- represented minorities. We also have excellent representation of female trainees (77% to date). For the next 5-year cycle, we are planning to continue to emphasize interdisciplinary research in our three thematic research areas of ID microbiology, social influences on ID epidemiology, and ID clinical research. Our pre-docs will all incorporate interdisciplinary work into their research. Our post-docs will be required to do interdisciplinary research with co-mentors – one epidemiologist plus one “interdisciplinary” co-mentor, with expertise in laboratory, behavioral or clinical research aspects of infectious diseases. In addition, we plan to further strengthen our professional development training and our outreach efforts to minority candidates. In summary, we hope to build on the remarkable success to date of this training program by continuing to train outstanding young infectious disease epidemiologists to meet an important public health need.