Training in HIV-related Non-communicable Disease Complications in Malawi

描述（由申请人提供）：这个艾滋病毒研究培训计划的总体目标是提高医学学院（COM），马拉维大学和其他地方机构进行艾滋病毒/艾滋病的非传染性疾病并发症的研究能力。COM目前正在进行艾滋病毒相关研究，但通过战略培训和能力建设，它将在这一新兴和具有挑战性的领域为资源有限和相互竞争的优先事项的国家提供深思熟虑，协调一致的研究和临床服务议程。通过在约翰霍普金斯大学（JHU）的短期、中期和长期学位和非学位培训机会的平衡，在国家和区域范围内，该培训方案将提高对非传染性疾病研究至关重要的以下方面的技能：艾滋病毒相关和治疗相关并发症的科学和流行病学;随机和观察性临床研究的设计;获得新的临床评估和调查技能，包括应用实验室方法、活组织检查和成像，以实施这些研究;负责任地开展研究;以及数据分析、翻译和向科学界传播信息。受训人员将在他们选定的专业领域与项目教师联系起来;因此，项目主任和高级关键合作者已经组建了一个由非洲和美国机构的项目教师组成的多学科团队。将在两个层面衡量研究能力的提高：受训人员层面，包括受训人员人数、受训人员研究成果的传播情况以及纳入马拉维卫生部和其他机构与艾滋病毒有关的非传染性疾病研究和规划的情况;机构层面，包括艾滋病毒并发症研究的成功研究奖，以及制定包括具体目标的机构研究战略。JHU-COM合作培训环境的一个关键和独特的要素是马拉维布兰太尔20多年的艾滋病毒研究以及现有的基础设施，以支持当地和全球在艾滋病毒相关非传染性疾病方面的研究工作。在培训赠款期结束时，JHU-COM培训合作将加强马拉维当地的人力资源能力，并培养一批训练有素的人员，以满足艾滋病毒和治疗相关的非传染性疾病并发症患者和人群的新需求。虽然JHU-COM的合作已经证明了其成功的，独立的艾滋病毒研究的能力，新的福格蒂艾滋病毒研究培训计划将是一个创新的和重要的补充，以建立一个非洲的研究环境，在艾滋病毒相关并发症的区域培训。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The overall objective of this HIV research training program is to increase capacity of the College of Medicine (COM), University of Malawi and other local institutions to conduct research in non-communicable disease complications of HIV/AIDS. The COM currently conducts HIV related studies, but through strategic training and capacity building, it will move toward a deliberate, coordinated research and clinical service agenda in this emerging and challenging area for countries with limited resources and competing priorities. Through a balance of short, medium, and long-term degree and non-degree training opportunities at the Johns Hopkins University (JHU), in-country and regionally, this training program will increase skills in the following concentrations which are essential to research in non-communicable diseases (NCDs): the science and epidemiology of HIV-related and treatment-related complications; the design of randomized and observational clinical research studies; the acquisition of new clinical assessment and investigation skills, including applied laboratory methods, biopsies and imaging, to implement these studies; the responsible conduct of research; and data analysis, translation and dissemination of information to the scientific community. Trainees will be linked to program faculty in their selected area of specialization; as such, the program director and senior key collaborator have formed a multidisciplinary team of program faculty from African and U.S. institutions. Increased research capacity will be measured at two levels: the level of the trainee, which includes numbers of individuals trained, dissemination of trainee research, and integration into HIV-related NCD research and planning at COM and other institutions in Malawi; and the level of the institution, which includes successful research awards for HIV complications research and establishing an institutional research strategy including specific targets. A critical and unique element of the training setting for the JHU-COM collaboration is the 20+ years of research in HIV in Blantyre, Malawi and the existing infrastructure from which to build upon to support local and global research efforts in HIV- related NCDs. At the completion of the training grant period, the JHU-COM training collaboration will have strengthened local human capacity in Malawi and created a critical mass of highly trained individuals to address the emerging needs of patients and populations with HIV- and treatment-related NCD complications. While the JHU-COM collaboration has demonstrated its capacity for successful, independent HIV research, the new Fogarty HIV Research Training Program will be an innovative and important addition to establish an African research setting for regional training in HIV-related complications.