Training in Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases

格鲁吉亚大学热带和全球新发疾病培训项目 (UGA)培养研究生和博士后学者成为独立的研究科学家 世卫组织从全球卫生的角度研究寄生虫病。该研究计划寻求基本的 深入了解原生动物和蠕虫寄生虫及其与哺乳动物宿主的相互作用， 无脊椎媒介它结合了尖端的板凳和实地科学与全球的观点， 控制和消除寄生虫病的挑战和机遇。这些角度 是基于世界各地的培训师和合作者的第一手经验。每年 人类的原生动物和蠕虫寄生虫疾病导致超过一百万人死亡， 数以百万计的严重发病病例和数亿例轻微发病病例 因为慢性感染UGA是唯一定位为下一代的训练场 寄生虫学/热带病研究人员和TTEGD是他们培训的核心基础， 发展该中心热带和新兴的全球疾病（CTEGD）内UGA是家庭， 也许是美国数量最多的寄生虫学研究实验室， 各种各样的寄生虫病我们相信，我们的计划的广度和文化灌输学员 有能力将基本科学发现转化为工具开发和实施 干预措施，并培养他们的能力，以确定和制定一个基本的研究问题， 寄生虫病本身的背景。在上一个资助期内，该计划进一步发展， 蓬勃发展，精选的学生和博士后参加一些活动，为他们量身定制的 为他们未来在科学事业中取得成功做好准备。对广度的重大机构承诺- 提升顶点体验，与培训生线路相匹配，重组创新毕业生 招聘伞和新的多样性举措进一步加强了这一非常成功的培训 程序.在下一个资助期内，我们会推出新措施，包括 博士后培训人员，更严格的培训新的培训师，新的博士后招聘战略， 增加多样性，采用新战略征聘代表性不足的少数群体， 一个计划，使用匹配的学员线和新的主题提供给学员对大数据挖掘 和计算机科学

The Training in Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases (TTEGD) program at the University of Georgia (UGA) trains graduate students and postdoctoral scholars to become independent research scientists who study parasitic diseases in the context of global health. The research program seeks fundamental insights into protozoan and helminth parasites and their interaction with their mammalian hosts and invertebrate vectors. It combines cutting-edge bench and field science with perspectives on the global challenges and opportunities for the control and elimination of parasitic diseases. These perspectives are grounded in firsthand experience by trainers and collaborators around the world. Every year protozoan and helminth parasitic diseases of humans are responsible for more than a million deaths, many millions more cases of severe morbidity, and hundreds of millions of cases of subtle morbidity due to chronic infections. UGA is uniquely positioned as a training ground for the next generation of parasitology/tropical disease researchers and the TTEGD is the central basis of their training and development. The Center for Tropical and Emerging Global Diseases (CTEGD) within UGA is home to perhaps the largest number of parasitology research laboratories in the US that collectively cover the full gamut of parasitic diseases. We believe that the breadth and culture of our program instill trainees with the ability to translate basic scientific findings into tool development and the implementation of interventions, and foster their ability to identify and formulate a fundamental research question out of the context of parasitic disease itself. During the last funding period, the program has further grown and flourished and selected students and postdocs participate in a number of activities tailored to their preparation for their future success in science careers. Significant institutional commitment for breadth- enhancing capstone experiences, a match for trainee lines, a reorganized innovative graduate recruitment umbrella, and new diversity initiatives further strengthen this highly successful training program. For the next funding period we introduce new initiatives including new requirements for postdoc trainees, a more rigorous training of new trainers, new postdoc recruitment strategies to increase diversity, new strategies to recruit underrepresented minorities, potential expansion of the program with the use of matched trainee lines and new themes offered to trainees on large data mining and computer science.