UCLA-RAES-UCAD Health Communication and ICT Research Education Program

 描述（由申请人提供）：我们的团队提出了一个社区-学术伙伴关系，以建立能力，以评估在塞内加尔和西非更普遍地利用信息和通信技术的传播举措的范围和影响。UCLA-RAES-UCAD健康传播和信息通信技术研究培训方案将使用基于问题的学习方法，西非研究生将学习如何使用信息通信技术传播健康信息和健康传播研究方法。加州大学洛杉矶分校菲尔丁公共卫生学院与塞内加尔达喀尔的Chelsea Anta Diop大学（UCAD），环境科学研究所（伊势）的社会科学学院合作，每年将培训10名博士生，其中30名在资助期内接受培训。培训将以短期强化课程的形式进行，其中包括基于技能的实践部分。信息通信技术健康传播发展，实施和研究的综合课程将强调大众传播的形成性，过程性和总结性评价，使学生获得基本的评价技能。作为培训的一部分，学生和教师将收集和分析数据，从目前资助的区域跨媒体健康传播倡议称为C est La Vie，由合作伙伴非洲教育网（RAES）组织和资助。“生命之源”的使命是改变西非人口使用、理解和提供保健服务，特别是妇幼保健和生殖保健服务的方式。我们还建议使用数字硬件和软件，以尽可能低的成本和可持续的方式收集和分析所收集的监测和评估数据。总体而言，研究教育的目标包括建设西非社会研究人员的能力，以描述，评估和分析计划的健康传播举措;使用数字硬件和软件来收集和分析数据;并利用与塞内加尔长期合作伙伴（RAES）和塞内加尔大型公立大学（UCAD）的现有合作项目通过让教师和学生参与实际的健康传播干预评估，使他们受益。因此，接受培训的学生将成为下一代专家，记录和激励塞内加尔和西非法语国家新媒体和卫生干预措施的创新，并获得参与全球卫生传播学术和研究文化的技能。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Our team is proposing a community-academic partnership to build capacity to assess the reach and impact of communication initiatives that utilize ICTs in Senegal and West Africa more generally. The UCLA-RAES-UCAD Health Communication and ICT Research Training Program will use a problem based learning approach with West African graduate students who will learn how ICTs are used to communicate health information and health communication research methods. UCLA Fielding School of Public Health faculty in collaboration with social science faculty from Cheikh Anta Diop University (UCAD), Institut de Science de L environment (ISE) in Dakar, Senegal will train 10 doctoral students per year with 30 trained over the grant period. The training will be structured as an intensive short course with skills based practice components. A comprehensive curriculum in ICT health communication development, implementation and research will emphasize formative, process, and summative evaluation for mass mediated communication so that students acquire basic evaluation skills. As part of the training, students and faculty will collect and analyze data from a currently funded regional transmedia health communication initiative called C est La Vie, organized and funded by collaborative partner Reseau Africain D Education pour La Sante ( RAES). C est La Vie, has as its mission, transforming how health care services especially for maternal and child health and reproductive health are used, understood and delivered at the population level in West Africa. We also propose to use digital hardware and software to collect and analyze the monitoring and evaluation data collected in as low cost and sustainable fashion as possible. Overall, research education aims include building the capacity of West African social researchers to describe, evaluate, and analyze planned health communication initiatives; using digital hardware and software to collect and analyze data; and leveraging existing collaborative projects with long term partner in Senegal (RAES) and with a large public University in Senegal (UCAD) to benefit faculty and student learning by having them participate in actual health communication intervention evaluation. Thus, students trained will become the next generation of experts to document and stimulate innovation in new media and health interventions in Senegal and francophone West Africa more generally, as well as attaining the skills to participate in global academic and research culture in health communication.