Training Program on Operational and Health Services Research for Malaria in Mali

描述(由申请者提供)：该培训计划的主要目的是通过在马里提供相关研究和评估技能的培训，加强马里目前的疟疾预防和控制工作。第二个目标将是支持马里公共卫生硕士和博士研究生的培训。在培训计划的前三年，每年有两名培训员在JHSPH待两个月，参加两到三门课程，并为他们返回马里后提供的课程制定详细的培训课程。每年将为大约25人举办一期为期5至10天的疟疾预防和控制课程。参与者将来自卫生部人员和儿童基金会、非政府组织或其他组织实施的控制项目的工作人员。巴马科大学公共卫生系将在2009-2010学年开办为期两年的公共卫生硕士课程。这笔培训补助金将资助第一批5名学生，然后每年资助3批3000名学生。与疟疾研究和培训中心正在进行的合作为学生提供接触疟疾研究的机会，并在MRTC现场和实验室进行实地实习。在培训补助金的第3至第5年期间，将支持两名学生在DPH进行博士学习。将从完成公共卫生硕士课程的前5名学生中招募学生，并从其他大学招收公共卫生硕士学生。在培训助学金的第四年和第五年，学生将每年在JHSPH花一个学期学习DPH没有提供的额外课程，并从JHSPH的教职员工那里获得关于他们的论文研究的意见。 公众相关性：过去实施大规模疟疾控制计划的努力缺乏健全的业务研究，这被认为是这些计划最终失败的原因之一。马里特别需要这样的培训计划，因为它是实施疟疾干预措施的一个具有挑战性的环境(低人口密度，低识字率)，而且马里很少有受过运筹学培训的研究人员。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The training program's main aim will be to strengthen current malaria prevention and control efforts in Mali by providing training in Mali in relevant research and evaluation skills. A secondary aim will be to support public health graduate training in Mali at both the masters and doctoral levels. Each year during the first three years of the training program, two trainers will spend two months at the JHSPH, take two or three courses, and develop the detailed training curriculum for a course they will offer upon their return to Mali. One 5 to 10 day course on malaria prevention and control will be organized each year for approximately 25 participants. Participants will be drawn from Ministry of Health personnel and personnel working in control projects implemented by UNICEF, NGOs or other organizations. The Department of Public Health of the University of Bamako is initiating a 2-year Masters in Public Health Program during the 2009-2010 academic years. This training grant will support a first cohort of 5 students then 3 subsequent cohorts of 3 students per year. On-going collaboration with the Malaria Research and Training Center provides opportunities for students to be exposed to malaria research, and to carry out their field placements at MRTC field sites and laboratories. Two students will be supported to carry out doctoral studies at DPH during Years 3 to 5 of the training grants. Students will be recruited from among the first 5 students to complete the MPH, and students with MPH from other universities. During the fourth and fifth years of the training grant, the students will spend one term each year at JHSPH taking additional courses not offered at DPH and getting input from JHSPH faculty on their dissertation research. PUBLIC RELEVANCE: Lack of sound operational research to accompany past efforts to implement large-scale malaria control programs has been cited as one reason for their ultimate failure. Mali is particularly in need of such a training program because it is a challenging environment for implementation of malaria interventions (low population densities, low literacy), and there are few researchers trained in operational research in Mali.