Infectious Diseases Training program in Bolivia: South-South Training with Peru

 描述(由申请者提供)：我们采用循序渐进的方法来挑选和培训年轻的研究人员。这种循序渐进的培训方法允许在多个级别筛选候选人，并确保我们投资于最合格和最有干劲的个人。在这项申请中，我们建议开发一个新的计划，以扩大我们的培训，以实现玻利维亚的研究人员的关键数量，在那里，我们开始建立当地的专业知识。玻利维亚毗邻秘鲁，这为我们提供了一个独特的机会，可以利用我们过去20年在秘鲁建立的人力资源和基础设施，利用南南培训办法，以更具成本效益的方式开始在玻利维亚建立科研社区。玻利维亚有几种影响公共卫生的传染病，我们计划将我们的培训重点放在对该国最重要的几种疾病上：恰加斯病、囊虫病、结核病、肺炎和艾滋病毒神经联合感染。在过去的25年里，我们建立了一个由发展中国家和发达国家机构组成的培训网络，其广度、深度和可持续性令人惊叹。该方案以秘鲁为重点，已经培训了90多名秘鲁研究生和研究生以及400多名其他国籍的学生，与这笔赠款有关的个人和机构的合作网络在同行评议的期刊上发表了350多篇原创研究文章。我们在秘鲁的原始计划中开发的网络和基础设施将被用于在玻利维亚培训研究人员的新拟议计划。在我们的项目中，我们有以下步骤将在这笔D43拨款下完成：第一步：我们将在玻利维亚每年培训20+名学生关于传染病和研究方法的研讨会，在5年的资助期间，总共有100+名学生。第二步：我们将在玻利维亚每年培训5名学生进行实验室轮换，在5年助学金期间总共培训25名学员。第三步：在五年助学金期间，我们将每年培训两名学生进行实验室轮换，总共培训10名学员。我们将每年培训两名玻利维亚学生，在UPCH的硕士学位项目中，在五年的资助期间，总共培训十名学员。第五步：在五年助学金期间，我们将支持6名玻利维亚学生进入圣何塞大学热带医学和公共卫生暑期学院学习。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We employ a progressive stepwise method of selecting and training young investigators. This stepwise training method permits screening of candidates at multiple levels and ensures that we invest in the most highly qualified and motivated individuals. In this application, we propose to develop a new program to extend our training to achieve a critical mass of researchers in Bolivia, where we are beginning to build local expertise. The proximity of Bolivia to Peru provides us with a unique opportunity to leverage the human capacity and infrastructure that we have built in Peru over the last 20 years, using a South-South training approach to more cost-effectively begin to build a scientific research community in Bolivia. There are several infectious diseases affecting public health in Bolivia, and we plan to focus our training on a few of the most important to the country: Chagas disease, cysticercosis, tuberculosis (TB), pneumonia, and HIV neurological co-infections. Over the past 25 years, we have developed a training network of developing and developed country institutions that is remarkable for its breadth, depth and sustainability. This program began with a focus on Peru, and has trained more than 90 Peruvian graduate and post-graduate students and 400 students of other nationalities, and the collaborative network of individuals and institutions tied to this grant has produced more than 350 original research articles in peer-reviewed journals. This network and infrastructure developed in our original program in Peru will be leveraged in the new proposed program to train researchers in Bolivia. We have the following steps in our program that will be completed under this D43 grant: Step 1. We will train 20+ students each year in infectious disease and research methods seminars in Bolivia, for a total of 100+ students during the 5 year grant. Step 2. We will train five students per year in laboratory rotations in Bolivia, for a total of 25 trainees during the 5 year grant. Step 3. We wil train two students per year in laboratory rotations at the UPCH, for a total of 10 trainees during the 5 year grant. Step 4. We will train two Bolivian students per year in a Master's degree program at UPCH, for a total of ten trainees during the five year grant. Step 5. We will support six Bolivian students to attend the Tropical Medicine and Public Health Summer Institute at JHSPH during the five year grant.