GH13-001, Strengthening Disease Prevention Research Capacity

描述(由申请人提供)：我们建议加强公共卫生监测和研究项目，该项目将作为一个平台，建设当地流行病学和实验室能力，以评估急性呼吸道疾病(ARI)的负担，评估控制 和预防干预措施，并检测新出现的威胁。目前的国际和平研究所监测项目的继续进行，将为评价国际和平研究所的 随着时间的推移，公共卫生干预的影响。我们还提出了一套关于呼吸系统疾病的专门研究研究，这些研究侧重于特定的研究问题，有助于多站点项目，并提高全球对呼吸系统疾病的理解。拟议项目成功的关键是我们实施当前IEIP监测项目的经验，以及我们由流行病学家、临床医生和实验室科学家组成的跨学科团队，他们在之前的合作协议中与美国疾病控制和预防中心以及危地马拉卫生部进行了广泛的合作。对于我们的方法来说，重要的是我们的目标是在该地区疾控中心资助的项目之间加强合作，特别是通过流感计划加强我们在呼吸系统疾病方面的核心专业知识，并通过现场流行病学培训计划增加我们现场项目中的培训机会。这对当地能力的影响将是巨大的，因为我们已经制定了一项工作计划，根据一项长期机构间协议，卫生部科学家将更多地参与公共卫生监测的各个方面。

DESCRIPTION (provided by the applicant): We propose to strengthen public health surveillance and research project that will serve as a platform for building local epidemiological and laboratory capacity to assess the burden of acute respiratory illness (ARI), evaluate control and prevention interventions, and detect emerging threats. The continuation of the current IEIP surveillance project will provide the historical comparability essential for evaluation of the impact of public health interventions over time. We also propose a set of special research studies on respiratory disease that focus on specific research questions, contribute to multisite projects, and improve understanding of respiratory diseases globally. Key to the success of the proposed projects is our experience conducting the current IEIP surveillance project, and our interdisciplinary team of epidemiologists, clinicians, and laboratory scientists with extensive collaborations with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and with the Guatemala Ministry of Health during the previous cooperative agreement. Important to our approach is our aim to increase collaboration across CDC-funded programs in the region, particularly to strengthen our core expertise in respiratory disease through the Influenza Program and increase training opportunities within our field projects through the Field Epidemiology Training Program. The impact on local capacity will be substantial because we have developed a work plan that involves increasing participation of Ministry of Health scientists in various aspects of public health surveillance under a long-term inter-institutional agreement.