Enabling Infectious Disease Research Capacity in the Peruvian Amazon

7.项目摘要/摘要 秘鲁在公共卫生研究方面的地位正在迅速提高，许多成功的秘鲁-美国研究 团队通过在利马的主要大学提供培训赠款来扩大研究能力。许多. 这些伙伴关系在秘鲁主要城市伊基托斯开展了研究热带疾病的卫星活动 但这些研究和能力建设活动基本上绕过了学术机构 伊基托斯。这项D43培训补助金是专门为解决和纠正这种差异而设计的，提供了 与秘鲁亚马孙国立大学合作开展的研究培训方案 (UNAP；秘鲁亚马逊国立大学)，该地区最大的健康教育机构。我们的 目标是扩大当地训练有素的公共卫生和传染病专业人员队伍 研究技能，我们建议通过在以下位置建立一个合作的硕士学位计划来实现这一点 UNAP招收六名竞争性选拔的卫生专业人员，从而获得公共卫生硕士学位 UNAP和联合体培训方案颁发的传染病国际研究证书。 这一强化的、有指导的培训方案包括南北和南南培训部分 由来自四个合作机构的教师领导(UNAP、Peruana Cayetano Heredia大学[领先的 位于利马的秘鲁生物医学研究大学]、杜兰大学和约翰霍普金斯大学)。该计划将是完整的 与秘鲁卫生专业人员的标准培训方案相结合，使受训人员能够 完成他们的学术和现场服务要求，同时受益于 方案间隔期和联合国亚太方案两年每小时标准方案期间，同时增加不到六个 在他们的总训练期中，只有几个月的时间。大部分培训将在UNAP通过以下途径在当地进行 培训单元和在线部分，尽管将进行三个月的初始培训 在约翰霍普金斯大学，作为流行病学和生物统计学夏季研究所的一部分，以及 热带医学与公共卫生。我们将在UNAP为期两年的公共卫生小时计划中补充 由杜兰大学、约翰斯·霍普金斯大学和UPCH学院领导的互补性短期培训模块将开放 对UNAP方案的所有公共卫生硕士学生，将培训方案的影响扩大到约80% 额外的受训人员。与UNAP教职员工密切合作，我们将把新的计划内容整合到现有的 公共卫生公共卫生课程，为未来的联合国亚太方案公共卫生公共卫生课程提供可持续、持续的好处。公共卫生硕士学员将 通过在撰写和汇编CONCYTEC建议书(Consejo)方面发挥领导作用来结束他们的培训 国家科学、技术和技术顾问 技术创新]，秘鲁首屈一指的科学资助机构)在指导下 一队。2-5年级为期一个月的短期课程，用于培训社区现场工作人员和实验室支持 还将提供工作人员，扩大伊基托斯的研究项目支持人员池。

7. Project Summary/Abstract Peru is rapidly increasing in stature in public health research, and many successful Peruvian-US research teams have expanded research capacity through training grants based in major universities in Lima. Many of these partnerships have satellite activities to study tropical diseases in Iquitos, the major city in the Peruvian Amazon, but these research and capacity building activities have largely bypassed academic institutions in Iquitos. This D43 training grant is specifically designed to address and correct this disparity, offering a collaborative research training program in partnership with the Universidad Nacional de la Amazonia Peruana (UNAP; National University of the Peruvian Amazon), the largest health education institution in the region. Our goal is to expand the local workforce of highly trained professionals with public health and infectious diseases research skills, which we propose to achieve by forming a collaborative Master’s degree program based at UNAP for six competitively selected health professionals, leading to a Master’s degree in Public Health from UNAP and a Certificate in International Research in Infectious Diseases from the consortium training program. This intensive, mentored training program with both north-south and south-south training components will be led by faculty from four collaborating institutions (UNAP, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia [the leading biomedical research university in Peru, located in Lima], Tulane, and Johns Hopkins). The program will be fully integrated with the standard Peruvian training program for health professionals, allowing for trainees to complete their academic and field service requirements while benefiting from the intensive training during programed gap periods and during the standard two-year MPH program at UNAP, while adding less than six months to their total training period. The majority of the training will be conducted locally at UNAP through training modules and online components, although three months of the initial training period will be carried out at Johns Hopkins as part of the Summer Institute of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and the Summer Institute of Tropical Medicine and Public Health. We will supplement the two-year MPH program at UNAP with complementary, short-term training modules led by Tulane, Johns Hopkins, and UPCH faculty that will be open to all MPH students in the UNAP program, expanding the impact of the training program to approximately 80 additional trainees. Working closely with UNAP faculty, we will integrate new program content into the existing MPH curriculum, providing sustainable, ongoing benefits for future UNAP MPH classes. MPH trainees will conclude their training by taking a leading role in writing and assembling a CONCYTEC proposal (Consejo Nacional de Ciencia, Tecnología, e Innovación Tecnológica [Nacional Counsel on Science, Technology, and Technological Innovation], the premier scientific funding agency in Peru) under the direction of a mentoring team. One-month short courses during Years 2-5 for training community field workers and laboratory support staff will also be offered, expanding the pool of research program support staff in Iquitos.