UMKC-JNMC Global Network for Women's and Children's Health Research Unit

描述（由申请人提供）：密苏里大学堪萨斯城医学院（UMKC）和贾瓦哈拉尔·尼赫鲁医学院（JNMC）正在与医学院校合作，其任务与全球妇女和儿童健康研究网络的目标一致，以扩大与改善发展中国家妇女和儿童健康状况有关的科学知识。合作机构为UMKC-JNMC研究单位制定了以下长期目标：维持设在JNMC的UMKC-JNMC全球妇女和儿童健康研究网络的运作，作为具有公共卫生干预能力的可持续研究基础设施，为了继续UMKC-JNMC研究单位参与美国国立卫生研究院全球妇女和儿童健康研究网络，从而加强国际合作研究安排，重点关注怀孕和幼儿期发病率和死亡率的主要原因，并为发展中国家有关孕产妇和婴儿健康的合理临床、方案和政策决定建立证据基础。在本项目的拟议期限内，UMKC-JNMC研究单位应具有以下具体目标：设计、开发和开展多项同时进行的共同临床试验，以充实必要的证据基础，减少发展中国家母亲、新生儿、婴儿和幼儿的风险，合作实施和评估证据-继续参与全球网络的活动将加强联合国系统的能力，提高研究单位的能力，使其能够继续成为JNMC促进印度制定旨在改善孕产妇、新生儿、婴儿和儿童健康结果的政策和方案的有效手段。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine (UMKC) and the Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College (JNMC) are partnering medical schools with missions consistent with the goal of the Global Network for Women's and Children's Health Research to expand scientific knowledge relevant to improving health outcomes for women and children in developing countries. The partnering institutions have the following long-term objectives for the UMKC-JNMC Research Unit:: To maintain operation of the UMKC-JNMC Global Network for Women's and Children's Health Research Unit based at JNMC as a sustainable research infrastructure with public health intervention capabilities, To continue the engagement of the UMKC-JNMC Research Unit in the National Institutes of Health's Global Network for Women's and Children's Health Research, thereby strengthening international collaborative research arrangements that focus on leading causes of morbidity and mortality in pregnancy and early childhood and building the evidence base for sound clinical, programmatic and policy decisions related to maternal and infant health in developing countries. During the proposed term of this project the UMKC-JNMC Research Unit shall have these specific aims: To design, develop, and conduct multiple simultaneous common clinical trials for the purpose of contributing to the evidence base necessary to reduce risks for mothers, neonates, infants and young children of developing countries, and To collaboratively implement and evaluate evidence-based health interventions and pertinent formative and translational research studies Continued participation in Global Network activities will strengthen the capabilities of the Research Unit and enable it to remain an effective means for JNMC to facilitate formulation of policy and programs in India that are designed to improve maternal, neonatal, infant and childhood health outcomes.