Doctoral Training Program in Tropical Diseases

摘要：作为热带传染病博士预科项目续签申请的一部分，我们建议培训五名学员，为期五年，以帮助应对重要的全球传染病挑战。该项目位于哈佛大学公共卫生学院（HSPH）免疫学和传染病系的中心，将由两位在传染病研究和培训方面具有深厚知识和经验的首席研究员管理：免疫学和传染病系（HSPH）教授兼主席Dyann Wirth和免疫学和传染病（HSPH）教授Phyllis Kanki。哈佛公共卫生学院的主要培训方向是通过更好地了解影响疾病结果的生物、社会和人口因素来预防疾病。该部门长期致力于培养下一代训练有素的热带传染病科学家，他们能够成功地适应，实施和维持传染病研究和干预计划，因为可治疗和可预防的疾病，最终寻求拯救生命。这个培训项目的范围是跨学科的，由一个多元化的、知识渊博的培训教师小组领导，他们具有很强的指导能力和建立主要培训计划的经验，以预防和治疗疾病。该系博士前培训强调细胞生物学、免疫学、分子生物学和流行病学、生物统计学、生物化学、基因组分析和系统生物学等领域的核心知识。这项工作还得到传染病传播和控制的流行病学和生态学方面的转译和实地研究的补充。除了探讨作为独立科学家发展所必需的问题外，受训人员还将获得高级培训，重点是特定传染因子，包括干预战略和将现代方法应用于疫苗和药物开发。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Pre-doctoral Training in Tropical Infectious Diseases Project Abstract As part of a renewal application for Pre-doctoral Training in Tropical Infectious Diseases, we propose to train five trainees for five years to help combat important global infectious disease challenges. Centrally located in the Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), the program will be administered by two Principal Investigators with deep knowledge and experience in infectious disease research and training: Dyann Wirth, Professor and Chair of the Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases (HSPH) and Phyllis Kanki, Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases (HSPH). The major orientation of training at the Harvard School of Public Health is disease prevention through a better understanding of the biological, social, and population factors that impact disease outcome. The department has a long-standing commitment to the development of the next generation of well-trained tropical infectious disease scientists, who can successfully adapt, implement, and sustain infectious diseases research and intervention programs due to treatable and preventable diseases, which ultimately seek to save lives. This training program is interdisciplinary in scope and is led by a diverse and knowledgeable group of training faculty with strong mentoring abilities and experience establishing major training initiatives oriented to the prevention and treatment of disease. Pre-doctoral training in the department emphasizes core knowledge in the areas of cell biology, immunology, molecular biology and epidemiology, biostatistics, biochemistry, genomic analysis, and systems biology. This work is supplemented by translational and field-based studies of epidemiological and ecological aspects of infectious disease transmission and control. In addition to exploring issues necessary to develop as independent scientists, trainees will also gain advanced training focusing on specific infectious agents, including strategies for intervention and the application of modern approaches to vaccine and drug development.