Linked; Building Capacity for Cardiovascular Research and Training in Uganda

描述（由申请人提供）：尽管心血管疾病（CVD）作为发病率和死亡率的主要原因之一非常重要，但在乌干达，对这种疾病的研究和培训相对被忽视。目前缺乏高质量的心血管疾病流行病学和临床结局数据，也缺乏心血管疾病的现场专家。这种情况转化为社区的认识水平低，结果较差，对心血管疾病的初级保健反应不佳。我们建议扩大我们在传染病方面非常成功的研究合作，包括CVD，目的是设计一个项目，大大提高乌干达的研究和培训能力，并解决CVD领导人严重短缺的问题。利用社区教育，研究和服务（COBERS）网站的方案奖，培训医学生心血管疾病风险评估和初级保健将得到支持。此外，还将为住院医师提供硕士学位课程，为年轻教师提供短期奖学金和博士培训，以发展CVD的临床和研究事业。此外，该方案的研究培训将与一个收集基线流行病学数据的研究项目挂钩。该MEPI计划将纳入乌干达两所主要医学院的现有培训框架，即Makerere大学健康科学学院（MUCHS）和Mbarara科技大学，以确保其可持续性。这两所医学院是MUCHS方案应用的一部分，并将与包括乌干达医学研究理事会在内的其他机构合作，支持基于社区的心血管疾病流行病学调查。凯斯西方大学提供访问教师和指导，耶鲁大学为乌干达居民和教师提供短期奖学金计划。该提案符合乌干达政府卫生部门战略计划，该计划强调心血管疾病预防能力建设是其核心优先事项之一。到该方案结束时，将培训足够数量的人员。CVD的研究环境将得到改善，这将可能导致出版物的大幅增加，并提高训练有素的教师的保留率。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Despite the great importance of cardiovascular disease (CVD) as one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality, research and training in this disease has been relatively neglected in Uganda. There is lack of good quality data on the epidemiology of CVD and on clinical outcomes and few on-site experts in CVD. This situation translates into low levels of awareness in the communities, poorer outcomes and sub-optimal primary care responses to CVDs. We propose to expand our highly successful research collaborations In infectious diseases to include CVD, with the goal of designing a program that will substantially improve the capacity for research and training in Uganda and to address the critical shortage of leaders in CVD. Using the community-based education, research and service (COBERS) sites in the programmatic award, training of medical students in CVD risk assessment and primary care will be supported. In addition, master's degree programs for residents and short term fellowships and PhD training for young faculty will be provided to develop clinical and research careers in CVD. Besides, research training in this program will be linked to a research project that will collect baseline epidemiological data. This MEPI program will be integrated within the existing framework of training at two major medical schools in Uganda namely Makerere University College of Health Sciences (MUCHS) and Mbarara University of Science and Technology to ensure its sustainability. These two medical schools are part of the MUCHS Programmatic application and will collaborate with other institutions including the Medical Research council in Uganda to support the community based CVD epidemiologic survey. Case Western University to provide visiting faculty and mentorship, and Yale University to provide short term fellowship programs for Ugandan residents and faculty. This proposal is in line with the government of Uganda Health Sector Strategic Plan that highlights building capacity for CVD prevention as one of its core priorities. By the end of this program, a critical mass of personnel will have been trained. The research environment for CVD will have been improved and this will likelv lead to substantial increase in publications and improve retention of the trained facultv.