NRSA POSTDOCTORAL TRAINING PROGRAM IN HIV PREVENTION RES

描述(申请人摘要)：此申请请求支持在威斯康星医学院艾滋病干预研究中心(CAIR)建立NRSA机构研究服务奖艾滋病毒预防研究博士后培训计划。该项目将为四名博士后研究员提供为期两年的培训。CAIR的奖学金培训计划将特别寻求增加该领域的女性和少数族裔科学家的数量，并招收一系列行为、社会和医学学科的博士后研究员。这项计划的目标是吸引博士后研究员到现场，并在研究人员认为对推进艾滋病毒预防科学至关重要的关键领域培训博士后研究员。这些领域包括：(1)对越来越容易感染艾滋病毒/艾滋病的被剥夺权利的人群进行的预防研究；(2)扩大概念模型的研究，以指导艾滋病毒预防干预措施，并扩大预防干预水平的范围；(3)为更好地评估艾滋病毒预防干预措施的影响而进行的方法研究；(4)研究，以改进艾滋病毒预防技术的转让，以及艾滋病毒预防研究人员与关注艾滋病的社区和公共卫生实体之间的沟通；以及(5)对艾滋病毒行为研究、伦理和艾滋病毒基金会领域研讨会的成本效益和政策影响进行评估的研究；以及培训会议。该计划将特别强调正在进行的研究指导，并在他们的多学科研究中心与经验丰富的研究人员进行指导。这将通过以下方式实现：首先让研究员参与CAIR目前正在进行的主要研究领域，包括对妇女、男同性恋者、有风险的无家可归者和严重精神病患者、青少年和其他人群进行的个人和社区一级的艾滋病毒预防试验，以及定性和定量的政策和方法研究。然后，该计划将利用CAIR的科学和核心资源作为支持，组织研究员发起独立研究项目的经验。

DESCRIPTION (Applicant's Abstract): This application requests support to establish an NRSA Institutional Research Service Award postdoctoral training program in HIV prevention studies at the Center for AIDS Intervention Research (CAIR) at the Medical College of Wisconsin. The program will offer a 2-year period of training to four postdoctoral research fellows. CAIR's fellowship training program will especially seek to increase the number of women and minority scientists in the field, and to enroll postdoctoral fellows in a range of behavioral, social, and medical science disciplines. The objective of the planned program is to attract to the field and train postdoctoral fellows in key areas the investigators believe will be critical for advancing the science of HIV prevention. These areas include: (1) prevention studies with disenfranchised populations who are increasingly vulnerable to HIV/AIDS; (2) research to expand the repertoire of conceptual models to guide HIV prevention interventions and to expand the range in levels of prevention intervention; (3) methodological research undertaken to better assess the impact of HIV prevention intervention; (4) research to improve the transfer of HIV prevention technology and communication between HIV prevention researchers and community and public health entities concerned about AIDS; and (5) research evaluating cost- effectiveness and policy implication of HIV behavioral research, ethics, and HIV foundation area seminars; and training conferences. The program will especially emphasize ongoing research preceptorships and mentorship with experienced investigators in their multidisciplinary research center. This will be accomplished by initially involving fellows in major areas of research presently being conducted at CAIR including both individual and community-level HIV prevention trials with women, gay men, the at-risk homeless and severely mentally ill, adolescents, and other populations, as well as both qualitative and quantitative policy and methodology studies. The program will then structure experiences in which fellows initiate independent research projects, drawing upon CAIR's scientific and core resources for support.