An Institutional Framework to Promote Global Health Research & Training

描述(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产生实质性变化。密歇根大学在鼓励创新、招募和培养下一代卫生科学家和专业人员以满足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计划--公共卫生学院的全球健康跨学科集中项目和医学院的全球覆盖计划--在各自的单位内促进国际卫生研究和培训。在这些计划的基础上，在我们五个福格蒂国际中心研究培训计划的基础上，以及在三个独特的本科计划的基础上，我们建议创建一个大学范围的框架-密歇根大学全球健康研究和培训计划，通过扩大本科课程、整合研究生课程、支持教师研究计划和最大限度地提高行政效率，促进关键和创新的多学科全球健康奖学金。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，促进教职员工之间的创新研究合作，并最大限度地增加学生参与全球卫生研究的机会。这项提案是公共卫生、医学、护理、公共政策学院和文学、科学和艺术学院的合作项目，并与校园内的其他几个项目建立了联系。具体地说，我们建议1)通过跨学科研讨会和提供教师种子资助，支持处于全球卫生研究前沿的奖学金；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)在研究生课程设置和整个大学的研究项目方面加强跨学科合作，并支持研究生研究实习、论文前研究旅行和临床研究轮换；4)发展必要的基础设施，包括网站、教职员工和实习数据库。这种对现有项目的增强、扩展和整合将促进研究，并吸引全球卫生领域的下一代科学家。

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.