Training in International Maternal and Child Health

这项为期五年的机构国家研究服务奖（NRSA）培训补助金（T32）的目的是培训合格的美国公民在发展中国家的妇幼保健领域进行研究。该计划建议为博士前学生提供长期培训，以获得博士学位。约翰霍普金斯彭博公共卫生学院国际卫生学位。培训将是多学科的，但学生将能够专注于三个学科领域之一;人类营养，行为科学和流行病学。在这三个主要领域内，学生将能够包括其他重点领域，如生物伦理学，人口学，传染病和疫苗学。培训的重点将是利用这些学科基础，更好地了解病因学、流行病学和适当的干预措施，以改善发展中国家的孕产妇、新生儿、婴儿和儿童健康。博士前课程将在约翰霍普金斯大学进行，论文研究将与当地研究机构和合作者一起，在发展中国家的学院设立的实地进行。国际卫生部在孟加拉国、印度、尼泊尔、桑给巴尔、乌干达、埃塞俄比亚、秘鲁和危地马拉等国设立了实地地点，开展实验室、诊所和以人口为基础的活动。参加该计划的学生将参加（1）结构化的课程工作（2）在适当的主题上提供的系列研讨会（3）在课程工作的第一年结束时的研究实习（4）在适当的课程教学援助（5）论文研究项目。学生将能够在3年和5年内完成学位，这取决于他们的背景。成功完成培训课程的学生将能够进行研究，以改善资源贫乏环境中育龄妇女及其后代的健康和生存。他们将开发适当的文化敏感性，语言技能和方法与当地合作伙伴在进行此类研究的合作，并将能够写独立的拨款申请NIH和其他竞争性资金来源进行未来的研究。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The purpose of this five year Institutional National Research Service Award (NRSA) Training Grant (T32) is to train qualified United States citizens to undertake research in the area of maternal and child health in developing country settings. The program proposes to provide long-term training of pre-doctoral students leading to the awarding of the Ph.D. degree in International Health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The training will be multi-disciplinary, but student will be able to focus on one of three disciplinary areas; human nutrition, behavioral sciences, and epidemiology. Within these three primary areas, students will be able to include other areas of focus such as bioethics, demography, infectious diseases, and vaccinology. The focus of the training will be to use these discipline bases to better understand the etiology, epidemiology, and interventions appropriate to improve maternal, neonatal, infant and child health in developing countries. Pre-doctoral course work will be undertaken at Johns Hopkins University, and the dissertation research will be conducted at faculty-established field sites in developing countries, in conjunction with local research institutions and collaborators. The Department of International Health has established field sites with laboratory, clinic and population-based activities in countries such as Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Zanzibar, Uganda, Ethiopia, Peru, and Guatemala. Students enrolled in the program will participate in (1) structured course work (2) a seminar series offered on appropriate topics (3) research practicum at the end of the first year of course work (4) teaching assistance in appropriate courses (5) a thesis research project. Students will be able to complete the degree within 3 and 5 years, depending on their backgrounds. Students who successfully complete the training program will be able to conduct research to improve the health and survival of women of reproductive age and their offspring in resource poor environments. They will have developed the appropriate cultural sensitivities, language skills and approach to collaboration with local partners in undertaking such research, and will be able to write independent grant applications to NIH and other competitive funding sources to conduct future research.