Research Training for Malaria Elimination in Myanmar

项目总结 缅甸承诺到2030年消除疟疾。缅甸的疟疾负担正在下降，但 消除疟疾需要政府机构内强大和可持续的疟疾研究能力。 领导消除工作，并与科学家和项目专业人员密切合作，以翻译 快速有效地将研究成果转化为实践。我们建议提供高质量的跨学科疟疾 为致力于消除疟疾的公共部门科学家和卫生专业人员提供研究培训 在缅甸。这项全球传染病研究培训计划(GIDRTP)将建立在强大的 由活跃的跨学科疟疾研究组合提供的基础，包括现场和实验室- 基于美国总统疟疾倡议、比尔和梅琳达·盖茨基金会以及 NIAID国际疟疾研究英才中心等。这些项目都是由 这项提议的多名主要调查员与国内合作伙伴密切合作，全部在该部内 卫生和体育部：医学研究部(DMR)，国家疟疾控制计划(NMCP) 和公共卫生大学(UPH)。培训方案的目的是加强以下能力 在卫生部的研究和计划部门进行独立、可持续的疟疾研究 卫生和体育，在与消除疟疾有关的一系列主题方面进行跨学科培训，包括 全球卫生、卫生系统和卫生政策、执行科学、流行病学和生物统计学， 分子和基因组流行病学、血清流行病学和/或监测和地理空间建模 映射。这将通过短期、基于项目的培训和学位培训相结合的方式实现。长期的 学位培训将在缅甸仰光的公共卫生大学进行(每小时8英里，2名博士 实习生)、昆山杜克大学中国(全球卫生硕士)和杜克全球 北卡罗来纳州达勒姆的卫生研究所(DGHI)(4名硕士和1名全球卫生博士)。基于非学位实验的短期课程 培训将在#年在DMR寄生虫学部和高级分子研究中心进行。 在仰光，在上海国家寄生虫病研究所疟疾实验室，中国和在一个新的 疟疾中心和达勒姆杜克大学的基因组和计算生物学中心。非- 学位实地研究培训将在我们在缅甸的实地研究学习地点进行， 至少在未来六年内，将继续进行以人口为基础的研究。建议数 预计培训将导致加强疟疾研究能力，使其对社会和政治具有复原力 在缅甸实现消除疟疾的里程碑的前景也会增加。其他内容 培训计划的成果将是DMR、NMCP和UPH之间更紧密的合作关系，以及 缅甸公共卫生科学家中国与美国

PROJECT SUMMARY Myanmar has committed to malaria elimination by 2030. The malaria burden is falling in Myanmar, but reaching elimination will require strong and sustainable malaria research capacity within the government institutions leading the elimination effort, and close partnership between scientists and program professionals to translate research results into practice quickly and effectively. We propose to provide high-quality interdisciplinary malaria research training for public sector scientists and health professionals who are committed to malaria elimination in Myanmar. This Global Infectious Disease Research Training Program (GIDRTP) will build on a strong foundation provided by an active portfolio of interdisciplinary malaria research that includes field and laboratory- based projects funded by the U.S. President's Malaria Initiative, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and an NIAID International Center of Excellence for Malaria Research, among others. These projects are all led by the multiple principal investigators of this proposal, in close partnership with in-country partners, all within the Ministry of Health and Sports: the Department of Medical Research (DMR), the National Malaria Control Program (NMCP) and the University of Public Health (UPH). The aim of the training program is to strengthen the capacity to conduct independent, sustainable malaria research in both the research and program arms of the Ministry of Health and Sports, with interdisciplinary training in a range of topics relevant to malaria elimination, including global health, health systems and health policy, implementation science, epidemiology and biostatistics, molecular and genomic epidemiology, sero-epidemiology, and/or surveillance and geospatial modeling and mapping. This will be accomplished through a mix of short-term, project-based and degree training. Long-term degree training will take place in Yangon, Myanmar at the University of Public Health (8 MPH and 2 PhD trainees), at Duke Kunshan University in Kunshan, China (2 MSc in Global Health), and at the Duke Global Health Institute (DGHI) in Durham, NC (4 MSc and 1 PhD in Global Health). Non-degree lab-based short-term training will take place in the Parasitology Division and the Advanced Molecular Research Center at DMR in Yangon, in the malaria laboratory of the National Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Shanghai, China, and in a new malaria center and the Center for Genomics and Computational Biology at Duke University in Durham. Non- degree field-based research training will be conducted in our field research study sites in Myanmar where ongoing population-based studies will continue to be conducted for at least the next six years. The proposed training is expected to result in strengthened malaria research capacity that will be resilient to social and political disruptions and increase the prospects for meeting malaria elimination milestones in Myanmar. Additional outcomes of the training program will be closer collaborative relationships between DMR, NMCP and UPH, and between public health scientists in Myanmar, China and the U.S.