Inter-American Training for Innovations in Emerging Infectious Diseases

描述（由申请人提供）：新出现的传染病，如肺结核、疟疾和南美锥虫病，在资源有限的国家是主要的公共卫生问题，在较富裕的国家是一个日益严重的威胁/问题。由于研究经费有限，往往没有诊断和控制这些疾病的有效战略，而且这些问题的解决办法往往需要各机构之间的跨学科方法，而这些方法往往互不相互作用。为了开始满足这一需求，美国、秘鲁和阿根廷的一个大学和组织联合体将建立一个美洲研究培训方案，以创新方法应对新出现的传染病。该联盟有效地整合了公共卫生、科学和工程、社会科学和医学四个不同的学科，为来自联盟机构的8名博士后水平的参与者提供针对新发传染病的创新方法的跨学科培训，其中至少有6名参与者来自拉丁美洲的合作伙伴。在新发传染病的项目主题下，具有工程、社会科学、医学和公共卫生背景的博士后学员将接受指导培训经验，并作为一个团队一起工作，以确定传染病的诊断、管理或控制问题。他们将结合自己的不同技能，在多学科导师的指导下，设计并实施一个联合研究项目，通过开发新的设备、干预措施或创新技术来解决或减轻问题。该项目将为项目参与者和其他选定的博士后水平的受训者建立为期两周的核心培训项目，在新奥尔良和秘鲁利马轮流开展，内容包括研究方法、生物伦理学和负责任的研究、拨款写作技巧，以及卫生领域跨学科创新模式的培训，例如将实验科学与原型相结合，从公共卫生项目到创业战略、试点项目和扩大规模。基于市场的方法和营销，以及与社区参与者进行研究。在多学科指导委员会的指导下，他们将结合自己的不同技能，设计并实施一个联合研究项目，通过开发新的设备、干预措施或创新技术来解决或减轻问题。在培训的最后阶段，博士后培训团队将对他们的设备、干预措施或技术进行测试，并在商业和行业顾问的指导下开发出测试结果良好的研究项目产品进行营销。该项目的目标是建立跨学科研究人员团队，通过开发可在拉丁美洲和发展中国家其他地区有效应用的具有成本效益的工具，他们能够创造性地和可持续地应对新出现的传染病的挑战，如登革热、南美锥虫病和结核病。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Emerging infectious diseases such as tuberculosis, malaria, and Chagas' disease, present major public health problems in resource-limited countries and are an increasing threat/problem in wealthier countries. Effective strategies to diagnose and control these diseases are often not available because of limited research funding, and solutions to these problems often require interdisciplinary approaches between institutions that often do not interact with each other. To begin to address this need, a consortium of universities and organizations in the United States, Peru, and Argentina will establish an Inter-American Research Training Program for Innovative Approaches to Emerging Infectious Diseases. The consortium effectively integrates the four distinct disciplines of public health, science and engineering, social sciences, and medicine to provide interdisciplinary training in innovative approaches to emerging infectious diseases for eight post-doctoral level participants from consortium institutions, with at least six of these participants coming from Lati American partners. Within the program theme of emerging infectious diseases, postdoctoral trainees with backgrounds in engineering, social sciences, medicine, and public health will receive mentored training experiences and work together as a team to identify problems in the diagnosis, management, or control of infectious diseases. Combining their own diverse skill sets and under the direction of mentors from multiple disciplines, they will design and implement a joint research project to solve or mitigate the problem by developing a new device, intervention, or innovative technique. The program will establish two-week core training programs for program participants and other selected post-doctoral level trainees, carried out alternately in New Orleans and Lima, Peru, in research methodology, bioethics and responsible research, and grant-writing skills, along with training in models of interdisciplinary innovations for health such as linking bench science to prototypes, from public health programs to entrepreneurial strategies, pilot projects and scale-up, market-based approaches and marketing, and engaged research with community participants. Combining their own diverse skill sets and under the direction of a Mentoring Committee with multiple disciplines, they will design and implement a joint research project to solve or mitigate the problem by developing a new device, intervention, or innovative technique. In the final stages of the training, postdoctoral trainee teams will test their devices, interventions, or techniques, and research program products with favorable test results will be developed for marketing with the guidance of business and industry consultants. The goal of the program is to build teams of interdisciplinary researchers who can creatively and sustainably address challenges of emerging infectious diseases, such as dengue, Chagas' disease, and tuberculosis, by developing cost-effective tools that can be applied effectively in Latin America and other parts of the developing world.