Research Training Program for Low- and Middle-Income Country Institutions

响应坦桑尼亚优化人员护理的国家优先事项 艾滋病毒感染者，杜克大学和基利曼哈罗基督教医疗 中心（KCMC）将开发一个社会行为科学（SBS）研究核心， KCMC专注于艾滋病毒/艾滋病护理。SBS研究技能是必不可少的， 了解与艾滋病毒检测、污名化、联系和保留有关的关键问题 在护理、治疗依从性和合并症（如精神疾病和 药物滥用与临床结果密切相关。收购 这些研究技能将通过南南培训机会获得， 开普敦大学（UCT），以及与杜克大学的南北机会。 考虑到研究独立性和建立区域培训的目标， 到2018年4月，我们已经为团队制定了一个精心的计划， 组成，强调强大的和互补的SBS研究技能。 四名候选人将在第一年开始博士培训，追求专业知识， 流行病学/公共卫生、健康促进/行为和心理学。两 学员亦会于第一年开始开始修读精神科医学硕士课程。在 随后几年，更多的小组成员将启动中期和短期 培训，以发展精神疾病公共卫生方面的专门知识， 护理诊断、护理、数据管理和研究管理。 强有力的指导将提供教师在杜克和UCT通过他们的 艾滋病毒感染SBS方面的专业知识和资助的研究。学员们的 研究将扩大与杜克现有的合作研究工作， 在新的领导下，与UCT发展新的合作关系 KCMC SBS研究核心团队。项目管理将建立 在KCMC-杜克大学合作的过去培训成功，和未来 将通过认真的沟通、严格的监测和 培训咨询委员会负责， 外部咨询委员会。

Responding to Tanzanian national priorities for optimizing the care of persons living with HIV infection, Duke University and the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre (KCMC) will develop a Sociobehavioral Sciences (SBS) Research Core at KCMC focused on HIV/AIDS care. SBS research skills are essential for understanding critical issues relating to HIV testing, stigma, linkage and retention in care, treatment adherence, and co-morbidities such as mental illness and substance abuse, which relate strongly to clinical outcomes. The acquisition of these research skills will occur through South-South training opportunities with the University of Cape Town (UCT), and North-South opportunities with Duke. Given the goal of research independence and creation of a regional training facility for the Team by April 2018, we have developed a careful plan for Team composition which emphasizes robust and complementary SBS research skills. Four candidates will begin PhD training in year 1, pursuing expertise in epidemiology/public health, health promotion/behavior, and psychology. Two trainees will also begin Masters' in Medicine training in Psychiatry in year 1. In subsequent years additional Team members will initiate medium- and short-term training to develop expertise in public health aspects of mental illness, point of care diagnostics, nursing, data management and research administration. Strong mentorship will be offered by faculty at Duke and UCT through their expertise and funded research in SBS aspects of HIV infection. The trainees' research will expand existing collaborative research efforts with Duke and develop new collaborations with UCT under the leadership of the newly developed KCMC SBS Research Core Team. Program administration will build upon the past training successes of the KCMC-Duke collaboration, and future success will be ensured through careful communication, rigorous monitoring and evaluation, and accountability to the Training Advisory Committee and an External Advisory Committee.