International Training in Injury Control Research

描述（由申请人提供）：本申请旨在在莫桑比克共和国建立创伤护理和伤害控制研究的培训计划。它是建立在美国大学（埃默里大学）和莫桑比克大学（大学爱德华多Mondlane或UEM）之间的预先存在的伙伴关系。莫桑比克是一个南部非洲国家，与受伤有关的医疗负担很重，目前用于加强受伤患者护理的临床或研究基础设施很少。本申请中描述了三个阶段的培训：正式的学术培训，在美国的桥梁奖学金，以及随后的国内研究。正式的学术培训是基于目前在UEM教授的核心MPH课程，辅以创伤护理，暴力和伤害预防的重点课程，以及流行病学的远程教育课程。此外，南非大学社会和健康科学研究所已同意作为受训人员的区域资源，选修提供额外的重点伤害课程。埃默里大学的桥梁奖学金将作为“小型休假”，以培养研究协议，并提供研究的伦理、法律的和社会影响方面的培训。最后，受训人员将返回莫桑比克进行由小额启动赠款支持的国内研究，以帮助受训人员在持续的指导下启动他们的第一个项目。将在所有三个阶段持续开展密切的后续行动和协作。虽然有些受训人员将参加所有三个阶段的培训，但其他受训人员可能只需要选定的几个阶段（也许在联合国近东巴勒斯坦难民救济和工程处花更多时间参加补充课程，或花更多时间进行国内研究）。提供了有力的国内支持的证据。该计划有几个优点：它具有很高的成本效益，它依赖于两个世卫组织伤害控制合作中心的优势，（埃默里大学和南非国际学生联合会），它使用区域或“南到南”的培训方法，国内补充培训将覆盖我们核心受训人员以外的其他人，它表明埃默里大学有意与莫桑比克建立长期合作伙伴关系，以建立该国在创伤护理和伤害控制方面进行高质量研究的能力，它为区域合作奠定了基础，最终可能导致将这种创伤和伤害控制研究扩展到莫桑比克以外的其他南部和东部非洲国家。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application seeks to establish a training program in trauma care and injury control research in the Republic of Mozambique. It is built on a preexisting partnership between a US University (Emory University) and a Mozambican University (University Eduardo Mondlane or UEM). Mozambique is a southern African nation with a significant healthcare burden related to injury, and with minimal current clinical or research infrastructure to strengthen the care of injured patients. Three stages of training are described in this application: formal academic training, bridge fellowships in the U.S., and subsequent in-country research. The formal academic training is based on the core MPH curriculum currently taught at UEM, supplemented with focused courses in Trauma Care, Violence and Injury Prevention, and a distance education course in Epidemiology. In addition, the University of South Africa (UNISA), Institute for Social and Health Sciences, has agreed to serve as a regional resource for trainees, offering additional focused injury coursework on an elective basis. The Bridge Fellowships at Emory will function as "mini-sabbaticals" to nurture research protocols and provide training in the ethical, legal and social implications of research. Finally, trainees will return to Mozambique to undertake in-country research supported by small startup grants to help trainees launch their first project with ongoing mentorship. Close follow-up and collaboration will be provided during all three phases, and on an ongoing basis. While some trainees will undertake all 3 phases of the training, others may require only select phases (perhaps spending more time at UNISA in supplemental courses, or spending more time on in-country research). Evidence of strong in-country support is presented. This plan has several advantages: it is highly cost-effective, it relies on the strengths of two WHO collaborating centres for injury control (Emory and UNISA), it uses a regional or "south to south" training approach, in-country supplemental training will reach others beyond our core trainees, it signals Emory's intent to Mozambique to be a long-term partner in building the nation's capacity to conduct high quality research in trauma care and injury control, and it lays the foundation for a regional collaborative that could ultimately lead to expansion of this trauma and injury control research beyond Mozambique to include other nations in Southern and East Africa.