TB/MDR-TB Research Capacity Building in LMIC in Southeast Asia

 描述(由申请者提供)：该培训计划的目标是加强LMIC合作中心的结核病研究能力，特别是合作中心的结核病研究人力资源，这些中心包括缅甸国家结核病计划、缅甸上下医学研究部、泰国结核病局(BTB)、北苏门答腊大学(USU)、西苏门答腊岛安达拉斯大学(UNAND)和印度尼西亚亚齐的Syiah Kuala University(SKU)。培训计划将重点关注耐多药结核病(MDR-TB)，这是东南亚地区的一个主要问题。这最终将导致未来更好地控制结核病和其他全球传染病。该计划的目标是培训合作中心(印度尼西亚、缅甸和泰国)的研究人员，以便在宋卡亲王大学获得流行病学硕士/博士学位，重点是耐多药结核病研究，并为合作中心的各种研究人员提供结核病流行病学/生物统计学和结核病实验室科学方面的短期课程培训。培养6名博士和6名硕士毕业生的长期培训将设在Songkla王子大学流行病学研究所(EPI-PSU)，该研究所在为亚洲和非洲培养130多名流行病学博士和硕士研究人员方面经验丰富。此外，还在Siriraj医院微生物系和Mahidol大学理学院(MICRIO-MU)以及12 Yala地区结核病研究和现场观察示范中心(ZTC12)提供了补充的短期培训。此外，还将在EPI-PSU进行短期培训，培训19名研究人员，并在Micro-MU培训14名研究人员。所有受训人员将由缅甸、印度尼西亚和泰国的目标机构初步挑选，并由培训咨询小组(TAG)审查。长期培训课程包括一年的课程作业(博士和硕士课程共享)，重点是流行病学/生物统计学、研究方法论、负责任的研究行为和数据分析。然后在受训者的家庭机构收集与耐多药结核病相关的研究论文的数据(博士1年，硕士6个月)。最后，在EPI-PSU，博士将再花一年时间，理科实习生将花6个月的时间进行数据分析和报告撰写。除技术质素外，我们亦已作出安排，以确保受训学员的多元化程度，以及在完成培训后，最大限度地保留和延续研究事业的发展。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This training program's goal is to strengthen TB research capacity, especially human resources of TB research at LMIC collaborating centers, namely the National Tuberculosis Program of Myanmar; Department of Medical Research Upper and Lower Myanmar; Bureau of Tuberculosis of Thailand (BTB); and University of North Sumatra (USU), Andalas University of West Sumatra (UNAND), and Syiah Kuala University of Aceh (SKU), Indonesia. The training program will focus on multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB), which is a major problem in the Southeast Asia region. This will eventually lead to better future control of TB and other global infectious diseases. The program objectives are to train researchers from collaborating centers (LMIC-Indonesia, Myanmar and Thailand) to achieve MSc/PhD in Epidemiology at Prince of Songkla University, with a special focus on MDR-TB research, and to provide short course training in TB Epidemiology/Biostatistics and TB laboratory science to various researchers of the collaborating centers. The long-term training to produce 6 PhD and 6 MSc graduates will be based at the Epidemiology Unit, Prince of Songkla University (EPI-PSU), experienced in producing over 130 epidemiological Doctoral and Master researchers to Asia and Africa. This is incorporated with supplementary short-term training at the Departments of Microbiology at Siriraj Hospital and Faculty of Science of Mahidol University (MICRO-MU), and at a center of excellence for TB research and TB field observation at Zonal TB Center 12 Yala (ZTC12). In addition, short-term training will be conducted at EPI-PSU to train 19 researchers and at MICRO-MU to train 14 researchers. All trainees will be initially selected by the target institutes from Myanmar, Indonesia and Thailand, and reviewed by a Training Advisory Group (TAG). The long-term training curriculum consists of one year coursework (shared by PhD and MSc programs) emphasizing Epidemiology/Biostatistics, Research Methodology, Responsible Conduct of Research, and data analysis. This is followed by data collection for research thesis related to MDR-TB (1 year for PhD and 6 months for MSc) at home institutes of the trainees. Finally, another year for the PhD and 6 months for the MSc trainees will be spent on data analysis and report writing at EPI-PSU. Apart from technical quality, arrangement has been made to ensure enough diversity of trainees, maximum retention and continuation of research career development after the training has been completed.