Columbia-Vietnam Social Science Training and Research Partnership: STAR II

描述（由申请人提供）：在STAR（社会科学培训和研究）II中，哥伦比亚大学的教师和越南研究人员将合作建设越南社会科学研究界的能力，并支持河内医科大学（HMU）作为与艾滋病毒和艾滋病有关的社会和行为科学知识的生产和传播的新兴国家中心。在STAR I建立的国家艾滋病预防、治疗和护理社会科学卓越中心的基础上，我们提议的合作包括一个基础设施核心、三个试点研究项目和一个多层次的传播战略。HMU的基础设施核心活动将：通过在线提案开发和IRB审查门户，为研究创建一个全面的IT平台；提供资金机制和拨款写作技巧方面的培训；在以理论为基础的跨学科社会科学和艾滋病毒研究方面建立能力，包括建立一个卫生数据存储库，以加强对人口一级数据集的获取和分析工作；并实施关键变革，以改进《医学研究杂志》的科学和行政流程。《医学研究杂志》是越南生物医学和健康科学研究的旗舰机构。伦理在计划中的基础设施核心活动中占突出地位，并制定了一项创新计划，与合作机构培训倡议（迈阿密大学花旗集团）和福加蒂资助的艾滋病培训项目合作，支持将花旗集团现有的在线研究伦理培训项目翻译成越南语，并通过提供公共卫生伦理模块来补充该项目；随后，越南各地的研究团队和调查人员将可以使用在线的、适应具体情况的越南语伦理培训项目。试点研究项目将在三个对越南应对艾滋病毒/艾滋病至关重要的领域收集证据并建立能力：基于理论的男同性恋者艾滋病毒预防；参与艾滋病注射吸毒者的抗逆转录病毒治疗，以及越南扩大的预防和护理项目的可持续性和国家自主权。随着总统紧急救援计划即将退出，这些项目面临着不确定的未来。与越南公共卫生协会合作实施的补充传播和网络建设战略涉及在越南公共卫生协会内建立一个社会科学、卫生和艾滋病毒部门，该部门与艾滋病毒/艾滋病、社会科学和公共卫生广泛知识网络相连。VKN将为社会科学家建立知识社区，为科学家和决策者之间的交流创造空间，制作越南语的“艾滋病研究简报”，并支持越南社会科学家与全球南方研究这些问题的前沿人士进行接触。STAR II将与越南主要地区卫生研究机构、越南主要决策机构和美国政府资助的其他艾滋病毒/艾滋病倡议合作，提供重要工具，支持越南向一个能够为健全和有效的艾滋病毒预防和护理政策提供所需证据的国家过渡。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): In STAR (Social Science Training and Research) II, Columbia University faculty and Vietnamese investigators will collaborate to build the capacity of the Vietnamese social science research community and to support Hanoi Medical University (HMU) as the emerging national hub for the production and dissemination of social and behavioral science knowledge related to HIV and AIDS. Building on the national center of excellence in social science approaches to HIV prevention, treatment and care established in STAR I, our proposed collaboration includes an infrastructure core, three pilot research projects, and a multi- level dissemination strategy. Infrastructure core activities at HMU will: create a comprehensive IT platform for research through a portal for on-line proposal development and IRB review; provide training in funding mechanisms and the craft of grant-writing; build capacity in theoretically-grounded interdisciplinary social science and HIV research, including developing a Health Data Repository to enhance access to and analytic work on population-level data sets; and implement critical changes to improve the scientific and administrative processes of the Journal of Medical Research, Vietnam's flagship venue for biomedical and health sciences research. Ethics figure prominently in the planned infrastructure core activities, with an innovative plan to collaborate with the Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI at University of Miami) and Fogarty-funded AIDS training programs to support the translation of CITI's existing on-line research ethics training program into Vietnamese and to add to that program by contributing modules in public health ethics; the on-line, contextually-adapted, Vietnamese-language ethics training program will then be available to research teams and investigators throughout Vietnam. Pilot research projects will generate evidence and build capacity in three areas vital for Vietnam's response to HIV/AIDS: theory-based HIV prevention with MSM; engagement with ART care among IDUs with AIDS, and the sustainability and country-ownership of Vietnam's scaled-up prevention and care programs, which face an uncertain future with the looming withdrawal of PEPFAR. The complementary Dissemination and Network building strategy, carried out in collaboration with the Vietnam Public Health Association (VPHA), involves founding a social science, health and HIV section within VPHA, linked to a broad Knowledge Network on HIV/AIDS, Social Science, and Public Health (VKN). The VKN will build intellectual community for social scientists, create spaces for interchange between scientists and policy makers, produce Vietnamese-language "HIV Research Briefs", and support the engagement of Vietnamese social scientists with those on the cutting edge of these issues in the global South. Working in collaboration with major regional Vietnamese health research institutions, key Vietnamese policymaking bodies, and other US government funded HIV/AIDS initiatives, STAR II will provide vital tools to support Vietnam's transition to a nation able to produce the evidence needed for sound and effective HIV prevention and care policies.