MATERNAL & CHILD HEALTH TRAINING FOR SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA

超出规定的空间。该方案建议向撒哈拉以南非洲的专业人员提供与妇幼保健有关的广泛领域的培训。培训将包括流行病学，临床调查，监测和评估，荟萃分析，临床决策和结果研究交叉学科，提供适用于各种孕产妇和儿童疾病的技能。随着许多发展中国家婴儿和儿童死亡率的下降，还将在对儿童日益重要的领域提供培训：儿童发展、对有特殊需要的儿童的职业治疗、人类营养、保健宣传以及儿童感染的临床和实验室调查。该项目将包括来自塔夫茨大学医学院、营养学院、艺术与科学学院、哥伦比亚大学公共卫生学院、非洲两所医学院——纳塔尔大学和赞比亚大学，以及南非两家研究机构的教员，其中一家由政府资助，另一家由私人基金会资助。该项目将以这些美国和非洲机构之间存在的密切合作为基础。这项提议包括在波士顿和非洲进行短期培训，长期培训可以获得硕士或博士学位，并在学员回国后为研究提供指导和经济支持。每年将在撒哈拉以南非洲各地征求申请后选出培训候选人。其目的是每年为两名个人提供硕士学位培训——一名来自南非，另一名来自另一个非洲国家，重点是赞比亚。优先考虑的是确定最优秀的个人，然后将他们与波士顿的课程相匹配，以满足他们的需求，以及他们所在机构和社会的需求。在非洲的现场培训将包括7个甚至短期（两周）的培训课程——1年和5年各2个课程，2-4年每年1个课程。这些课程将部分效仿波士顿已经开设的短期课程。它们将涵盖当前的研究问题，包括微量营养素补充；监测和评估营养或儿童发展干预方案的技术；特殊需要儿童职业治疗的干预措施及研究方法方法：临床调查；肠道微生物学的研究方法。网站性能 ======================================== 节结束 ===========================================

EXCEED THE SPACEPROVIDED. This program proposes to provide trainingto professionals from sub-Saharan Africa in a broad array of fields integral to maternal and child health. Training will includeareas of epidemiology, clinical investigation, monitoringand evaluation, meta-analysis, clinical decision making, and outcomes researchcrosscutting disciplines that provide skills applicable to a diverse set of maternal and child disorders. Training will also be offered in areas that are becoming increasingly important in childhood as infant and child mortality rates fall in many developing countries: child development, occupational therapy for children with special needs, human nutrition,health communication, and clinical and laboratory investigation of childhood infections. The program will involve faculty from the Schools of Medicine, Nutrition, and Arts and Sciences at Tufts, from the Columbia University School of Public Health, from two medical schools in Africa- the University of Natal and the University of Zambia, and from two research organizations in South Africa - one government supported, and one supported by a private foundation. The program will build on the close ongoing collaboration that exists between these U.S. and African institutions. This proposal involves short-term training to be conducted both in Boston and in Africa, longer-term training that can lead to either a Masters or Ph.D. degree, and mentoring and financial support for research when the trainee returns home. Candidates for training will be selected each year after soliciting applications throughout sub-Saharan Africa. The intent will be to provide Master's degree training to two individualsyearly - one from South Africa and one from another African country, with a focus on Zambia. Priority will be given to identifying the best individuals, and then matching them with a curriculum in Boston that meets their needs, and the needs of their home institution and society. On-site training in Africa will includeseven short-term (two-week) training courses-two courses in years 1 and 5 and 1course annually in years 2-4. These will in part be modeled on short-term courses already being offered in Boston. They will cover current research issues including micronutrient supplementation; techniques for monitoring and evaluating intervention programs in nutritionor child development; interventions and research methods in occupational therapy for children with special needs; methods in clinical investigation; and research methods in enteric microbiology. PERFORMANCE SITE ========================================Section End===========================================