Uganda Malaria COHRE Training Program

描述(申请人提供)：虽然乌干达在扩大疟疾控制干预措施方面取得了进展，但目前远远没有达到已经设定的指标目标。为了应对疟疾控制需求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。乌干达目前几乎没有熟练的疟疾专家和管理人员。1998年，Makerere大学和加州大学旧金山分校(MU-UCSF)建立了一个合作的疟疾研究项目。这一学术合作是2001年创建乌干达疟疾监测项目(UMSP)的基础，这是一个多地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大学公共卫生学院以及伦敦卫生和热带医学院。迄今为止，MU-UCSF和UMSP取得了很高的成效，成功地提供了高质量的数据，帮助指导乌干达的疟疾治疗政策，并培训了一些初级科学家。在MU-UCSF和UMSP的支持下，Makerere大学医学院现在提议开发和实施一项培训计划，旨在建设乌干达临床、业务和卫生服务研究和计划管理的能力，以确保在全国范围内有效地扩大现有疟疾控制工具的规模。我们建议提供培训，评估疟疾控制战略的成本和有效性，并建立经改进的系统，以监测和评估这些干预措施的影响。该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相联系。培训经历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。我们建议为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。我们预计将培训12名硕士研究生和大约90名非学位研究生。与公共卫生有关：在总统疟疾倡议和全球抗击艾滋病、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，仍然存在重大挑战，包括如何最好地向大量弱势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方案。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.