An Institutional Framework to Promote Global Health

描述（由申请人提供）：千年发展目标是一项全球契约，旨在到2015年在世界人口的健康和福祉方面创造实质性变化。密歇根大学在激励创新、招募和培养下一代卫生科学家和专业人员以解决关键的全球卫生需求方面处于特别有利的地位。我们最近建立了两个创新项目——公共卫生学院的全球卫生跨学科集中项目和医学院的全球REACH项目——在各自的单位内促进国际卫生研究和培训。在这些项目的基础上，在我们五个福格蒂国际中心研究培训项目的基础上，在三个独特的本科项目的基础上，我们建议创建一个全校范围的框架，密歇根大学全球健康研究和培训计划，通过扩大本科项目，整合研究生项目，支持教师研究计划，促进关键和创新的多学科全球健康奖学金。最大限度地提高行政效率。总体目标是更有效地支持我们与中低收入国家机构的卫生研究和培训伙伴关系，促进教师之间的创新研究合作，并最大限度地为学生提供参与全球卫生研究的机会。该提案是公共卫生、医学、护理、公共政策学院和文学、科学和艺术学院的合作，并与校园内的其他几个项目有联系。具体来说，我们建议1)通过跨学科专题讨论会和提供教师种子基金来支持全球健康研究前沿的奖学金；2)开发有针对性的新课程，支持国际研究实习并为本科生定义课程计划；3)在整个大学的研究生课程和研究计划中增加跨学科合作，并支持研究生研究实习。论文前研究旅行和临床研究轮转，4)开发必要的基础设施，包括网站和教员和实习数据库。这种对现有规划的加强、扩展和整合将促进全球卫生领域的研究并吸引下一代科学家参与。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Millennium Development Goals represent a global compact to create substantive change in the health and well-being of the world's population by the year 2015. The University of Michigan is particularly well placed to stimulate innovation and to recruit and prepare the next generation of health scientists and professionals to address critical global health needs. We have recently established two innovative programs-the School of Public Health's Interdisciplinary Concentration in Global Health and the School of Medicine's Global REACH program-that foster international health research and training within their respective units. Building on these programs, on the infrastructure of our five Fogarty International Center research training programs, and on three unique undergraduate programs, we propose creating a university-wide framework, the University of Michigan Global Health Research and Training Initiative to promote critical and innovative multidisciplinary global health scholarship by expanding undergraduate programs, integrating graduate programs, supporting faculty research initiatives, and maximizing administrative efficiency. The overall goal is to more effectively support our health research and training partnerships with institutions in low- and middle-income countries, to foster innovative research collaborations among faculty, and maximize opportunities for students to engage in global health research. This proposal is a collaboration of the Schools of Public Health, Medicine, Nursing, Public Policy, and the College of Literature, Sciences and Arts with linkages to several other programs on campus. Specifically, we propose to 1) support scholarship at the forefront of global health research through interdisciplinary symposia and provision of faculty seed grants, 2) develop targeted new course offerings, support international research internships and define curricular programs for undergraduate students, 3) increase interdisciplinary collaboration in graduate curricular offerings and research programs across the university and support graduate research internships, pre-dissertation research travel and clinical research rotations, and 4) develop necessary infrastructure, including a website and faculty and internship databases. This enhancement, expansion, and integration of existing programs will catalyze research and engage the next generation of scientists in global health.