Training Program on Operational and Health Services Research for Malaria in Mali

该培训方案的主要目的将是加强马里目前的疟疾预防和控制工作 在马里提供有关研究和评估技能的培训。次要目标将是支持 马里公共卫生硕士和博士研究生培训。 每年在培训计划的前三年，两名培训员将在 JHSPH，参加两三门课程，并为他们将提供的课程制定详细的培训课程 在他们返回马里后。每期将举办5至10天的疟疾预防和控制课程 每年约有25名参与者参加。参与者将从卫生部工作人员和 在儿童基金会、非政府组织或其他组织实施的控制项目中工作的人员。 巴马科大学公共卫生系正在开办一个为期两年的公共卫生硕士课程 计划在2009-2010学年进行。这笔培训补助金将支持首批5名学生 然后是随后的3个队列，每年3名学生。与疟疾研究和研究中心持续合作 培训中心为学生提供接触疟疾研究的机会，并开展他们 在MRTC现场和实验室的现场安置。 在3至5年的培训期间，将支持两名学生在DPH进行博士学习 资助金。将从完成公共卫生硕士课程的前5名学生中招收学生，并从 其他大学的公共卫生硕士。在培训助学金的第四年和第五年，学生们将花费 JHSPH每年有一个学期参加DPH没有提供的额外课程，并从JHSPH获得投入 教员们正在进行他们的论文研究。 相关性(请参阅说明)： 缺乏完善的业务研究来配合过去实施大规模疟疾控制的努力 这些项目被认为是他们最终失败的原因之一。马里尤其需要这样一种 培训计划，因为这是实施疟疾干预措施的一个具有挑战性的环境(低 人口密度大、识字率低)，而且马里很少有受过运筹学培训的研究人员。

The training program's main aim will be to strengthen current malaria prevention and control efforts in Mali by providing training in Mali in relevant research and evaluation skills. A secondary aim will be to support public health graduate training in Mali at both the masters and doctoral levels. Each year during the first three years of the training program, two trainers will spend two months at the JHSPH, take two or three courses, and develop the detailed training curriculum for a course they will offer upon their return to Mali. One 5 to 10 day course on malaria prevention and control will be organized each year for approximately 25 participants. Participants will be drawn from Ministry of Health personnel and personnel working in control projects implemented by UNICEF, NGOs or other organizations. The Department of Public Health of the University of Bamako is initiating a 2-year Masters in Public Health Program during the 2009-2010 academic year. This training grant will support a first cohort of 5 students then 3 subsequent cohorts of 3 students per year. On-going collaboration with the Malaria Research and Training Center provides opportunities for students to be exposed to malaria research, and to carry out their field placements at MRTC field sites and laboratories. Two students will be supported to carry out doctoral studies at DPH during Years 3 to 5 of the training grants. Students will be recruited from among the first 5 students to complete the MPH, and students with MPH from other universities. During the fourth and fifth years of the training grant, the students will spend one term each year at JHSPH taking additional courses not offered at DPH and getting input from JHSPH faculty on their dissertation research. RELEVANCE (See Instructions): Lack of sound operational research to accompany past efforts to implement large-scale malaria control programs has been cited as one reason for their ultimate failure. Mali is particularly in need of such a training program because it is a challenging environment for implementation of malaria interventions (low population densities, low literacy), and there are few researchers trained in operational research in Mali.