Uganda Malaria COHRE Training Program

描述（由申请人提供）：尽管乌干达在扩大疟疾控制干预措施方面取得了进展，但目前还远远达不到已设定的指标目标。为了应对疟疾控制需求所带来的当前和未来挑战，乌干达的专门知识必须增长和多样化。目前乌干达几乎没有熟练的疟疾专家和管理人员。1998年，马凯雷雷大学和加州大学旧金山分校（MU-UCSF）建立了一个疟疾合作研究项目。这种学术合作为2001年创建乌干达疟疾监测项目（UMSP）奠定了基础，这是一个多站点监测系统和研究平台，其主要合作伙伴包括MU-UCSF、乌干达卫生部、Makerere大学公共卫生学院和伦敦卫生与热带医学学院。迄今为止，MU-UCSF和UMSP已经取得了很高的成果，并成功地提供了高质量的数据，这些数据帮助指导了乌干达的疟疾治疗政策，并培训了一些初级科学家。Makerere大学医学院在MU-UCSF和UMSP的支持下，现在提议制定和实施一项培训方案，旨在建设乌干达临床、业务和卫生服务研究和方案管理的能力，以确保在全国范围内有效扩大现有的疟疾控制工具。我们建议在评估疟疾控制战略的成本和有效性方面提供培训，并建立改进的系统来监测和评估这些干预措施的影响。这个项目的培训将与乌干达、美国、英国和肯尼亚参与机构正在进行的研究和教育项目联系起来。培训经历的范围从几周到几个月的短期课程，到一到两年的学位和非学位课程。我们建议向参与疟疾控制的公共卫生项目管理人员、医生、护士、昆虫学家、社会科学家和卫生信息管理人员提供培训。我们预计将培养12名硕士学位课程候选人和约90名非学位课程候选人。公共卫生相关性：在总统防治疟疾倡议和全球防治艾滋病、结核病和疟疾基金的支持下，乌干达现在有一个前所未有的机会来改善疟疾控制。然而，重大挑战仍然存在，包括如何最好地向大量脆弱人群提供经过验证的干预措施，以及如何管理国家规模的疟疾控制规划。改进国内业务和保健服务研究方面的专门知识将有助于卫生部制定控制疟疾的政策。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Although Uganda has made progress in scaling up malaria control interventions, currently it falls far short of indicator targets that have been set. To meet the current and future challenges posed by the need for malaria control, Ugandan expertise must grow and diversify. There are currently few skilled malaria experts and managers in Uganda. In 1998, a collaborative malaria research project was established between Makerere University and the University of California, San Francisco (MU-UCSF). This academic collaboration formed the basis for the creation in 2001 of the Uganda Malaria Surveillance Project (UMSP), a multi-site surveillance system and research platform whose key partners include MU-UCSF, the Uganda Ministry of Health, Makerere University School of Public Health and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. To date, MU-UCSF and UMSP have been highly productive and successful providing high- quality data which has helped to guide malaria treatment policy in Uganda, and training a number of junior scientists. Makerere University Faculty of Medicine, with support from MU-UCSF and UMSP, now proposes to develop and implement a training program designed to build capacity for clinical, operational and health services research and program management in Uganda to ensure effective nationwide scale-up of the available malaria control tools. We propose to provide training in evaluating the cost and effectiveness of malaria control strategies, and establishing improved systems to monitor and evaluate the impact of these interventions. Training in this program will be linked to on-going research and educational projects of the participating institutions in Uganda, the US, the UK and Kenya. The training experiences will range from short courses of weeks to months duration, to degree and non-degree programs of one to two years duration. We propose to provide training to public health program managers, physicians, nurses, entomologists, social scientists and health information managers involved in malaria control. We anticipate training 12 candidates in master's degree programs and approximately 90 candidates in non-degree programs. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Uganda now has an unprecedented opportunity to improve malaria control with support from the President's Malaria Initiative and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. However, significant challenges remain, including how to best deliver proven interventions to large numbers of vulnerable people, and how to manage national-scale malaria control programs. Improved in-country expertise in operational and health services research will assist the Ministry of Health in establishing policies for the control of malaria.