Enabling Infectious Disease Research Capacity in the Peruvian Amazon

7.项目总结/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 通过在利马各大大学提供培训赠款，研究小组扩大了研究能力。许多 这些伙伴关系开展卫星活动，研究秘鲁主要城市伊基托斯的热带疾病， 亚马逊，但这些研究和能力建设活动在很大程度上绕过了学术机构，在 伊基托斯D43培训补助金是专门为解决和纠正这一差距而设计的， 与秘鲁亚马逊国立大学合作的合作研究培训计划 (UNAP秘鲁亚马逊国立大学），该地区最大的健康教育机构。我们 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，我们建议通过形成一个基于合作的硕士学位课程， 联合国国家援助计划为六名经过竞争挑选的卫生专业人员提供了公共卫生硕士学位， 联合国艾滋病毒/艾滋病联合方案和国际传染病研究证书。 这一有指导的密集培训方案包括南北和南南培训部分， 由来自四个合作机构（联合国大学，秘鲁卡耶塔诺埃雷迪亚大学[领先的 生物医学研究大学在秘鲁，位于利马]，杜兰，和约翰霍普金斯）。该计划将全面 与标准的秘鲁卫生专业人员培训计划相结合，使受训人员能够 完成他们的学术和现场服务要求，同时受益于强化培训期间 在UNAP的标准两年MPH计划期间， 在整个培训期间。大部分培训将在联合国国家适应计划当地进行， 培训单元和在线组成部分，但将进行为期三个月的初步培训 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和 热带医学和公共卫生。我们将补充两年的MPH计划在UNAP与 由杜兰大学、约翰霍普金斯大学和UPCH教师领导的补充性短期培训模块， 所有MPH学生在UNAP计划，扩大培训计划的影响，约80 更多的实习生。与UNAP教师密切合作，我们将把新的课程内容整合到现有的 MPH课程，为未来的UNAP MPH课程提供可持续的，持续的好处。MPH学员将 通过在编写和汇编CONCYTEC提案（Consejo）中发挥主导作用来结束培训 国家科学、技术和创新顾问 技术创新]，秘鲁首要的科学资助机构）， 团队2-5年级为期一个月的短期课程，培训社区实地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计划支持人员库。

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.