D71 Planning Grant for Emerging Virus Research Training in Sierra Leone

D71 塞拉利昂新兴病毒研究培训规划赠款

• 批准号: 9231929
• 负责人: James Russell
• 金额: $ 4.99万
• 依托单位: DUKE UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-09-24 至 2017-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9231929
• 关键词: Academic Medical Centers; Africa; African; Allied Health Sciences; Award; Clinical Research; Collaborations; Communicable Diseases; Communities; Disease Outbreaks; Ebola virus; Emerging Communicable Diseases; Epidemic; Future; Goals; Grant; Internships; Learning; Medical Research; Medicine; Needs Assessment; Preparation; Research; Research Personnel; Research Training; Resources; Sierra Leone; Therapeutic Trials; Training; Training Programs; Universities; Viral; Virus; Work; base; college; empowered; experience; global health; health equity; healthcare community; novel; online classroom; programs; response; simulation; training opportunity; vaccine trial

Following the recent Ebola outbreak in West Africa, Sierra Leone College of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences (COMAHS) and Duke University seek to develop a training program to advance research capacity for viral emerging infectious diseases. Building upon existing relationships with Sierra Leone investigators and leaders, as well as lessons learned from the Ebola outbreak, Duke University will work closely with colleagues at COMAHS to leverage expertise in infectious disease, medical and research training, extensive clinical research expertise and a strong commitment to global health equity in this effort. With receipt of this planning award, we will develop and perform a clinical research needs assessment in Sierra Leone; identify specific clinical research training opportunities at COMAHS that would benefit from Duke's support, experience, and training resources; and conduct a preliminary feasibility assessment of investigators, with the long term goal of increasing the research capacity throughout Sierra Leone. We will bring together the experience of the healthcare community in Sierra Leone and the multiple resources available throughout Duke University and Medical Center together with collaborating entities to create a combination of online and classroom-based didactic training opportunities, “real-world' internship opportunities to observe how clinical research is conducted in various settings, and novel trial simulations in clinical research. This type of collaboration and preparation would help bring together and prepare the healthcare community in Sierra Leone, ultimately enabling their capacity to rapidly implement therapeutic or vaccine trials during a future outbreak. We believe this program is critical to empower West African communities to be able to participate more fully in responses to emerging viral epidemics.

在西非最近爆发埃博拉疫情后，塞拉利昂医学院和联合健康科学学院(COMAHS)和杜克大学寻求制定一项培训计划，以提高对病毒新发传染病的研究能力。在与塞拉利昂调查人员和领导人的现有关系以及从埃博拉疫情中吸取的教训的基础上，杜克大学将与COMAHS的同事密切合作，在这项努力中利用传染病专业知识、医学和研究培训、广泛的临床研究专业知识以及对全球卫生公平的坚定承诺。在获得这一规划奖后，我们将在塞拉利昂开发和执行临床研究需求评估；在COMAHS确定将受益于杜克大学的支持、经验和培训资源的特定临床研究培训机会；并对研究人员进行初步可行性评估，长期目标是提高整个塞拉利昂的研究能力。我们将把塞拉利昂医疗保健社区的经验和整个杜克大学和医学中心可用的多种资源与合作实体结合起来，创造在线和基于课堂的教学培训机会、观察临床研究如何在不同环境中进行的“真实世界”实习机会，以及临床研究中的新颖试验模拟。这种协作和准备将有助于将塞拉利昂的医疗保健社区聚集在一起并做好准备，最终使他们有能力在未来爆发期间迅速实施治疗或疫苗试验。我们认为，这项计划对于使西非社区能够更充分地参与应对新出现的病毒流行至关重要。