UC Berkeley Global Research Training in Population and Health in Nigeria

描述（由申请人提供）：拟议的培训计划将提高两个关键部门在艾哈迈德贝洛大学（ABU），扎里亚，北方尼日利亚，开展人口健康应用研究的能力。ABU是北方尼日利亚医学专业培训的首要大学和主要中心。ABU公共卫生和妇产科（OB-GYN）部门的选定讲师，研究人员和学生将接受加州大学伯克利分校教师和来自北方尼日利亚的杰出教授的培训和指导。这五年的长期目标是在艾哈迈杜·贝洛大学建立和维持人口与健康研究中心。我们的中期目标是：1）加强ABU硕士公共卫生计划的人口组成部分; 2）协助ABU实现其提供博士学位的目标。公共卫生; 3）提高妇产科研究人员的研究技能; 4）增加ABU和加州大学伯克利分校（UCB）之间的多学科合作。我们建议通过开展以下活动来实现这些目标，从而解决本区域的健康和人口问题：1）组织和教授与人口和健康研究有关的高级短期课程; 2）向ABU的一名教员提供博士奖学金。在公共卫生/人口学研究在伊巴丹大学，尼日利亚; 3）在ABU培训博士后研究人员的几个队列; 4）组织尼日利亚学员访问UCB的指导和技术支持;和5）资金，促进和指导两个校区之间的合作研究。UCB教师将在ABU为教师，博士和博士后学员提供关于人口和健康的短期课程。这将是密集的两个星期的课程，生物统计学，人口分析，流行病学，应用定量和定性研究方法，和研究伦理。UCB教师将担任导师，以学员，因为他们进行合作研究。在数据分析的最后阶段，学员将被邀请到加州大学伯克利分校作为访问学者。该培训方案将大大提高ABU开展应用人口健康研究的能力，从而对尼日利亚北方服务不足的人口获得优质计划生育和生殖健康服务的努力产生持久影响。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The proposed training program will enhance the capacity of two key departments at Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, northern Nigeria, to carry out applied research in Population Health. ABU is the premiere university and main center for medical specialty training in northern Nigeria. Selected lecturers, researchers, and students at ABU's Departments of Public Health and of Obstetrics & Gynaecology (OB- GYN) will be trained and mentored by UC Berkeley faculty and distinguished professors from northern Nigeria. The long term objective of this five year effort is to create and maintain the Center for Population and Health Research (CPHR) at Ahmadu Bello University. Our intermediate objectives are to: 1) strengthen the population component of the ABU Master's Program in Public Health; 2) assist ABU meet its goal of offering a Ph.D. in Public Health; 3) enhance the research skills of investigators at the Department of OB- GYN; and 4) increase multidisciplinary collaboration between ABU and the UC Berkeley (UCB). We propose to meet these objectives - and thus confront the health and demographic problems in the region - by carrying out the following activities: 1) organize and teach advanced short courses on topics related to population and health research; 2) provide a scholarship to an ABU faculty member for Ph.D. studies in Public Health/Demography at Ibadan University, Nigeria; 3) train several cohorts of postdoctoral researchers at ABU; 4) organize visits by Nigerian trainees to UCB for mentoring and technical support; and 5) fund, promote, and mentor collaborative research between the two campuses. UCB faculty will give short courses on population and health designed for faculty, doctoral, and postdoctoral trainees at ABU. These will be intensive two week courses on biostatistics, demographic analysis, epidemiology, applied quantitative and qualitative research methodologies, and research ethics. UCB faculty will serve as mentors to trainees as they carry out collaborative research. During the final stages of their data analysis the trainees will be invited to the UC Berkeley campus as visiting scholars. This training program will greatly enhance ABU's capacity to carry out applied population health research and thus have lasting impact on efforts to extend access to quality family planning and reproductive health services to underserved populations across northern Nigeria.