UC Berkeley Global Research Training in Population and Health in Nigeria

描述(由申请者提供)：拟议的培训计划将加强尼日利亚北部扎里亚艾哈迈杜贝洛大学(ABU)两个关键部门开展人口健康应用研究的能力。阿布扎比大学是尼日利亚北部首屈一指的大学和医学专业培训的主要中心。阿布扎比大学公共卫生和妇产科(OB-GYN)的选定讲师、研究人员和学生将接受加州大学伯克利分校教职员工和来自尼日利亚北部的杰出教授的培训和指导。这项五年努力的长期目标是在艾哈迈杜·贝洛大学建立和维持人口与健康研究中心。我们的中期目标是：1)加强ABU公共卫生硕士项目的人口部分；2)帮助ABU实现其提供公共卫生博士学位的目标；3)提高OB-GYN部门研究人员的研究技能；以及4)加强ABU和加州大学伯克利分校(UCB)之间的多学科合作。为了实现这些目标--从而应对该地区的健康和人口问题--我们建议开展以下活动：1)组织和教授与人口与健康研究相关主题的高级短期课程；2)向阿布U教员提供奖学金，在尼日利亚伊巴丹大学攻读公共卫生/人口学博士学位；3)在阿布扎比大学培训一批博士后研究人员；4)组织尼日利亚受训人员访问联合大学，以获得指导和技术支持；以及5)资助、促进和指导两个校区之间的协作研究。UCB教职员工将为阿布扎比大学的教员、博士和博士后实习生开设人口与健康方面的短期课程。这些课程将是为期两周的强化课程，内容涉及生物统计学、人口统计分析、流行病学、应用定量和定性研究方法以及研究伦理。UCB的教职员工将在学员开展合作研究时担任他们的导师。在数据分析的最后阶段，受训者将被邀请到加州大学伯克利分校作为访问学者。这一培训计划将极大地提高ABU开展应用人口健康研究的能力，从而对将优质计划生育和生殖健康服务扩大到尼日利亚北部未得到充分服务的人口的努力产生持久的影响。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The proposed training program will enhance the capacity of two key departments at Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, northern Nigeria, to carry out applied research in Population Health. ABU is the premiere university and main center for medical specialty training in northern Nigeria. Selected lecturers, researchers, and students at ABU's Departments of Public Health and of Obstetrics & Gynaecology (OB- GYN) will be trained and mentored by UC Berkeley faculty and distinguished professors from northern Nigeria. The long term objective of this five year effort is to create and maintain the Center for Population and Health Research (CPHR) at Ahmadu Bello University. Our intermediate objectives are to: 1) strengthen the population component of the ABU Master's Program in Public Health; 2) assist ABU meet its goal of offering a Ph.D. in Public Health; 3) enhance the research skills of investigators at the Department of OB- GYN; and 4) increase multidisciplinary collaboration between ABU and the UC Berkeley (UCB). We propose to meet these objectives - and thus confront the health and demographic problems in the region - by carrying out the following activities: 1) organize and teach advanced short courses on topics related to population and health research; 2) provide a scholarship to an ABU faculty member for Ph.D. studies in Public Health/Demography at Ibadan University, Nigeria; 3) train several cohorts of postdoctoral researchers at ABU; 4) organize visits by Nigerian trainees to UCB for mentoring and technical support; and 5) fund, promote, and mentor collaborative research between the two campuses. UCB faculty will give short courses on population and health designed for faculty, doctoral, and postdoctoral trainees at ABU. These will be intensive two week courses on biostatistics, demographic analysis, epidemiology, applied quantitative and qualitative research methodologies, and research ethics. UCB faculty will serve as mentors to trainees as they carry out collaborative research. During the final stages of their data analysis the trainees will be invited to the UC Berkeley campus as visiting scholars. This training program will greatly enhance ABU's capacity to carry out applied population health research and thus have lasting impact on efforts to extend access to quality family planning and reproductive health services to underserved populations across northern Nigeria.