UMKC-JNMC Global Network for Women's and Children's Health Research Unit

描述(由申请人提供)：密苏里大学堪萨斯城医学院(UMKC)和贾瓦哈拉尔·尼赫鲁医学院(JNMC)正在与医学院合作，其使命与全球妇女儿童健康研究网络的目标一致，以扩大与改善发展中国家妇女和儿童健康结果相关的科学知识。伙伴关系机构为UMKC-JNMC研究股制定了以下长期目标：维持设在JNMC的UMKC-JNMC全球妇女和儿童健康研究股的运作，作为具有公共卫生干预能力的可持续研究基础设施；继续让UMKC-JNMC研究股参与国家卫生院的全球妇女和儿童健康研究网络，从而加强国际合作研究安排，重点关注怀孕和幼儿发病率和死亡率的主要原因，并为与发展中国家母婴健康有关的合理临床、方案和政策决策建立证据基础。在本项目的拟议期限内，UMKC-JNMC研究部将有以下具体目标：设计、开发和进行多个同时进行的共同临床试验，目的是为降低发展中国家母亲、新生儿、婴幼儿风险所需的证据基础做出贡献，并协作实施和评估循证健康干预措施以及相关的形成性和转化性研究。继续参与全球网络活动将加强研究部的能力，使其能够继续成为JNMC促进印度制定旨在改善孕产妇、新生儿、婴幼儿和儿童健康结果的政策和计划的有效手段。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine (UMKC) and the Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College (JNMC) are partnering medical schools with missions consistent with the goal of the Global Network for Women's and Children's Health Research to expand scientific knowledge relevant to improving health outcomes for women and children in developing countries. The partnering institutions have the following long-term objectives for the UMKC-JNMC Research Unit:: To maintain operation of the UMKC-JNMC Global Network for Women's and Children's Health Research Unit based at JNMC as a sustainable research infrastructure with public health intervention capabilities, To continue the engagement of the UMKC-JNMC Research Unit in the National Institutes of Health's Global Network for Women's and Children's Health Research, thereby strengthening international collaborative research arrangements that focus on leading causes of morbidity and mortality in pregnancy and early childhood and building the evidence base for sound clinical, programmatic and policy decisions related to maternal and infant health in developing countries. During the proposed term of this project the UMKC-JNMC Research Unit shall have these specific aims: To design, develop, and conduct multiple simultaneous common clinical trials for the purpose of contributing to the evidence base necessary to reduce risks for mothers, neonates, infants and young children of developing countries, and To collaboratively implement and evaluate evidence-based health interventions and pertinent formative and translational research studies Continued participation in Global Network activities will strengthen the capabilities of the Research Unit and enable it to remain an effective means for JNMC to facilitate formulation of policy and programs in India that are designed to improve maternal, neonatal, infant and childhood health outcomes.