Biomedical Sciences Exchange PhD studentships

南非正处于一个复杂的卫生动态的尖端--传染性疾病与日益增长的非传染性疾病负担相互碰撞。该国是世界上人体免疫缺陷病毒（艾滋病毒）流行最严重的国家之一，结核病发病率最高。南非也反映了许多发展中国家面临的慢性非传染性疾病迅速增长的情况，如2型糖尿病、心血管疾病、慢性肺病和神经精神疾病。如果要解决这些问题，就必须提高在非洲进行有关保健研究的能力，而发展和扩大国际合作网络是实现这一目标的关键，这一方案将加强和扩大牛津大学和开普敦大学在生物医学领域正在进行的合作。在卫生相关领域的13个研究伙伴关系将在战略上联合起来。这些领域将包括传染病、疫苗开发、初级保健、儿童和青少年健康、精神健康、神经科学、肌肉骨骼疾病、糖尿病和癌症。这些重点领域包括全球疾病负担和残疾的主要原因。这些伙伴关系小组将从UOXF和UCT各交换10名博士生到另一个机构，6个月的时间学习新的研究技术，加强研究小组之间的合作联系。该方案还将召集所有合作的学生和他们的导师一起参加网络会议，交流知识，规划未来的合作活动，以可持续地研究南苏丹健康的关键方面。非洲和全球人口。它还将专门与南非的历史上不同的机构合作，以期在该国更广泛地发展能力。我们预计，该计划将加强英国和南非之间的联系，培养一批网络化的早期职业科学家，他们接受多样性和改善现状的挑战，为改革南非高等教育部门的必要性做出贡献，并提供卓越质量的生物医学科学产出，最终将推进医学知识，提高南非和英国的健康和发展能力。

South Africa is at the sharp end of a complex health dynamic - the collision of communicable disease with an ever-growing burden of non-communicable disease. The country has one of the world's largest human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) epidemics and highest incidence rates of tuberculosis. South Africa also mirrors much of the developing world in facing a rapid growth in chronic, non-communicable diseases, such as type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, chronic lung disease and neuropsychiatric disorders. The capacity to conduct relevant health research in Africa must be increased if these problems are to be addressed, and development and expansion of international collaborative networks are vital to achieving this.This programme will strengthen and extend ongoing collaborations between the University of Oxford (UOXF) and the University of Cape Town (UCT) within the area of biomedical science. Thirteen research partnerships in health-related fields will be strategically united. The fields will include infectious diseases, vaccine development, primary care, child and adolescent health, mental health, neurosciences, musculoskeletal disorders, diabetes and cancer. These focus areas include leading causes of global disease burden and disability. These partnership groups will exchange 10 PhD students from each of UOXF and UCT to the other institution for 3-6 months to learn new research techniques and strengthen the collaborative links between the research groups.The programme will also bring all collaborating students and their supervisors together for a networking meeting to transfer knowledge and plan future collaborative activity to sustainably research critical aspects of the health of South African and global populations. It will also specifically engage with Historically Disadvantaged Institutions in South Africa with a view to developing capacity more widely within the country.We anticipate that this programme will strengthen links between the UK and South Africa, foster a cadre of networked early-career scientists who embrace diversity and the challenge to improve the status quo, contribute to the imperative to transform South Africa's higher education sector, and deliver exceptional quality biomedical science outputs that will ultimately advance medical knowledge and improve the health and development capability of South Africa and the UK.