CCHS-JNMC Global Network for Women's & Children's Health Research Unit

描述(由申请人提供)：根据与尤尼斯·肯尼迪·施莱弗国家儿童健康和人类发展研究所(NICHD)、克里斯蒂娜关怀健康服务公司(CCHS)及其合作伙伴KLE的贾瓦哈拉尔·尼赫鲁医学院(JNMC)的合作协议。该大学的长期目标是继续参与全球妇女和儿童健康研究网络，并继续在CCHS-JNMC研究股的运作中进行合作。作为多中心国际研究网络的成员，CCHS-JNMC研究单位将进行随机临床试验和干预研究，重点是在低收入和中低收入国家降低孕产妇、新生儿、婴儿和儿童早期健康的主要风险。CCHS和JNMC将与其他全球网络参与者合作，努力加强全球网络研究基础设施，提高妇女和儿童健康研究的能力，并扩大科学知识，从而改善妇女、婴儿和儿童的健康做法和结果。CCHS-JNMC研究股在下一个五年全球网络供资周期中的具体目标包括： CCHS-JNMC RU负责监督设在印度卡纳塔克邦贝尔高姆的JNMC的妇女和儿童健康研究方案，为CCHS-JNMC RU的持续增长和发展提供支持，并确保JNMC的研究基础设施的可持续性，将其整合到规模更大的KLE大学内，并扩展到JNMC和该大学服务的周围地区； 加强全球网络及其在国际合作研究中的作用，方法是参与制定一项重要的全球网络研究议程，并设计、开发、获得执行支助，并执行多种共同研究方案，以解决发展中世界妇女和幼儿发病率和死亡率的主要原因； 查明和解决孕产妇和儿童研究方面的差距，并与其他全球保健网络参与者合作，实施和评价有希望的卫生干预措施、形成性和转化性研究，包括实施研究；并传播研究结果。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Under a cooperative agreement with the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), Christiana Care Health Services, Inc. (CCHS) and its partner, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College (JNMC) of KLE. University, have the long-term objective of continued participation in the Global Network for Women's and Children's Health Research and continued collaboration in the operation of the CCHS-JNMC Research Unit. As a member of a multicenter international research network, the CCHS-JNMC Research Unit will conduct randomized clinical trials and intervention studies focused on reducing major risks to maternal, neonatal, infant, and early childhood health in low and lower-middle income countries. In collaboration with other Global Network participants, CCHS and JNMC will work to strengthen the Global Network research infrastructure, to increase the capacity for women's and children's health research, and to expand scientific knowledge that will lead to improved health practices and outcomes for women, infants, and children. Specific aims of the CCHS-JNMC Research Unit during the next five-year Global Network funding cycle include:  To provide for continued growth and development of the CCHS-JNMC RU which oversees the women's and children's health research program based at JNMC in Belgaum, Karnataka India, and to ensure sustainability of the research infrastructure at JNMC, integrated within the larger KLE University, and extending into surrounding districts served by JNMC and the University;  To strengthen the Global Network and its role in international collaborative research by participating in creation of a significant GN research agenda and designing, developing, obtaining support for implementation, and conducting multiple, common research protocols which address the major causes of morbidity and mortality in women and young children in the developing world;  To identify and address gaps in maternal and child research and, with other GN participants, to collaboratively implement and evaluate promising health interventions, formative and translational studies, including implementation research; and to disseminate findings.