Training in International Maternal and Child Health

描述（由申请人提供）：这个为期五年的机构国家研究服务奖（NRSA）培训补助金（T32）的目的是培训合格的美国公民在发展中国家环境中从事妇幼保健领域的研究。该项目旨在为约翰霍普金斯大学布隆伯格公共卫生学院的国际卫生博士研究生提供长期培训。培训将是多学科的，但学生将能够专注于三个学科领域之一；人类营养学，行为科学和流行病学。在这三个主要领域内，学生将能够包括其他重点领域，如生物伦理学，人口学，传染病和疫苗学。培训的重点将是利用这些学科基础，更好地了解病因、流行病学和适当的干预措施，以改善发展中国家的孕产妇、新生儿、婴儿和儿童健康。博士预科课程将在约翰霍普金斯大学进行，论文研究将与当地研究机构和合作者一起在发展中国家由教员设立的实地地点进行。国际卫生部在孟加拉国、印度、尼泊尔、桑给巴尔、乌干达、埃塞俄比亚、秘鲁和危地马拉等国建立了开展实验室、诊所和人口活动的实地站点。参加该计划的学生将参加(1)结构化的课程作业(2)关于适当主题的系列研讨会(3)课程第一年结束时的研究实习(4)适当课程的教学协助(5)论文研究项目。根据学生的背景，他们可以在3到5年内完成学位。成功完成培训方案的学生将能够进行研究，以改善资源贫乏环境中育龄妇女及其后代的健康和生存。他们将发展出适当的文化敏感性、语言技能和与当地伙伴合作开展此类研究的方法，并将能够向美国国立卫生研究院和其他有竞争力的资金来源撰写独立的资助申请，以进行未来的研究。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The purpose of this five year Institutional National Research Service Award (NRSA) Training Grant (T32) is to train qualified United States citizens to undertake research in the area of maternal and child health in developing country settings. The program proposes to provide long-term training of pre-doctoral students leading to the awarding of the Ph.D. degree in International Health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The training will be multi-disciplinary, but student will be able to focus on one of three disciplinary areas; human nutrition, behavioral sciences, and epidemiology. Within these three primary areas, students will be able to include other areas of focus such as bioethics, demography, infectious diseases, and vaccinology. The focus of the training will be to use these discipline bases to better understand the etiology, epidemiology, and interventions appropriate to improve maternal, neonatal, infant and child health in developing countries. Pre-doctoral course work will be undertaken at Johns Hopkins University, and the dissertation research will be conducted at faculty-established field sites in developing countries, in conjunction with local research institutions and collaborators. The Department of International Health has established field sites with laboratory, clinic and population-based activities in countries such as Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Zanzibar, Uganda, Ethiopia, Peru, and Guatemala. Students enrolled in the program will participate in (1) structured course work (2) a seminar series offered on appropriate topics (3) research practicum at the end of the first year of course work (4) teaching assistance in appropriate courses (5) a thesis research project. Students will be able to complete the degree within 3 and 5 years, depending on their backgrounds. Students who successfully complete the training program will be able to conduct research to improve the health and survival of women of reproductive age and their offspring in resource poor environments. They will have developed the appropriate cultural sensitivities, language skills and approach to collaboration with local partners in undertaking such research, and will be able to write independent grant applications to NIH and other competitive funding sources to conduct future research.