UC Berkeley Global Research Training in Population and Health in Nigeria

拟议的培训方案将提高艾哈迈德贝洛两个关键部门的能力 在尼日利亚北方的扎里亚大学（ABU）进行人口健康方面的应用研究。ABU是 在尼日利亚北方的主要大学和医学专业培训中心。选定的讲师， ABU公共卫生系和妇产科系的研究人员和学生（OB- GYN）将由加州大学伯克利分校的教师和来自北方的杰出教授进行培训和指导 尼日利亚。这五年努力的长期目标是建立和维持人口中心， Ahmadu Bello大学的健康研究（CPHR）。我们的中期目标是：1）加强 ABU公共卫生硕士课程的人口组成部分; 2）协助ABU实现其目标， 提供博士学位在公共卫生; 3）提高研究人员的研究技能在产科- 妇科;以及4）加强ABU和加州大学伯克利分校（UCB）之间的多学科合作。 我们提出要实现这些目标，从而解决非洲的健康和人口问题。 区域-通过开展以下活动：1）组织和教授有关专题的高级短期课程 与人口和健康研究有关; 2）为ABU教职员工提供奖学金，以获得博士学位。 在尼日利亚伊巴丹大学进行公共卫生/人口学研究; 3）培训几批博士后 4）组织尼日利亚受训人员访问UCB，以获得指导和技术支持; 5)资助，促进和指导两个校区之间的合作研究。 UCB教师将为教师，博士生和研究生提供关于人口和健康的短期课程。 ABU的博士后实习生这将是为期两周的密集课程，内容涉及生物统计学、人口统计学、 分析，流行病学，应用定量和定性研究方法和研究伦理。 UCB教师将担任导师，以学员，因为他们进行合作研究。在最后 在数据分析的各个阶段，学员将被邀请到加州大学伯克利分校作为访问学者。这 培训计划将大大提高ABU开展应用人口健康研究的能力， 从而对扩大获得高质量计划生育和生殖健康服务的努力产生持久影响 为尼日利亚北方服务不足的人口提供服务。

The proposed training program will enhance the capacity of two key departments at Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, northern Nigeria, to carry out applied research in Population Health. ABU is the premiere university and main center for medical specialty training in northern Nigeria. Selected lecturers, researchers, and students at ABU's Departments of Public Health and of Obstetrics & Gynaecology (OB- GYN) will be trained and mentored by UC Berkeley faculty and distinguished professors from northern Nigeria. The long term objective of this five year effort is to create and maintain the Center for Population and Health Research (CPHR) at Ahmadu Bello University. Our intermediate objectives are to: 1) strengthen the population component of the ABU Master's Program in Public Health; 2) assist ABU meet its goal of offering a Ph.D. in Public Health; 3) enhance the research skills of investigatorsat the Department of OB- GYN; and 4) increase multidisciplinary collaboration between ABU and the UC Berkeley (UCB). We propose to meet these objectives - andthus confront the health and demographic problems inthe region - by carrying out the following activities: 1) organize and teach advanced short courses ontopics related to population and health research; 2) provide a scholarship to an ABU faculty member for Ph.D. studies in Public Health/Demography at Ibadan University, Nigeria; 3) train several cohorts of postdoctoral researchers at ABU; 4) organize visits by Nigerian trainees to UCB for mentoring and technical support; and 5) fund, promote, and mentor collaborative research between the two campuses. UCB faculty will give short courses on population and health designed for faculty, doctoral, and postdoctoral trainees at ABU. These will be intensive two week courses on biostatistics, demographic analysis, epidemiology, applied quantitative and qualitative research methodologies, and research ethics. UCB faculty will serve as mentors to trainees as they carry out collaborative research. During the final stages of their data analysis the trainees will be invited to the UC Berkeley campus as visiting scholars. This training program will greatly enhance ABU's capacity to carry out applied population health research and thus have lasting impact on efforts to extend access to quality family planning and reproductive health services to underserved populations across northern Nigeria.