Enabling Infectious Disease Research Capacity in the Peruvian Amazon

项目总结 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传染病的卫星活动 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。在……里面 这次更新，我们的目标是继续扩大本地训练有素的专业人员队伍，为公众提供 卫生和传染病研究技能，我们建议通过继续培训三个 目前在UNAP攻读公共卫生博士课程的学员将获得两名 在UNAP完成公共卫生硕士学位的专科医生培训。如此密集， 导师培训计划将由教师领导，包括南北和南南培训部分 来自四个合作机构(UNAP、弗吉尼亚大学、Peruana Cayetano Heredia大学[The 位于利马的秘鲁领先的生物医学研究大学]、杜兰大学和 亚利桑那州(UA))。大部分培训将通过培训单元和培训单元在UNAP当地进行 在线组件。我们将在UNAP的两年期公共卫生计划的基础上补充短期的 由UVA、Tulane、UPCH、UA和USDA教员领导的培训模块将向所有公共卫生硕士和博士开放 参加UNAP方案的学生，将培训方案的影响扩大到大约80 硕士生和博士生各10名。模块将专门专注于人类科目 培训、研究的严格性和重现性、科学写作和赠款写作、数据管理和 秘鲁和美国研究的可视化、科学交流和监管方面。密切合作 与UNAP教员一起，我们将把新的课程内容整合到现有的公共卫生硕士和博士课程中， 为未来的UNAP公共卫生小时和博士班提供可持续、持续的好处。公共卫生硕士和博士 学员将通过在写作和组装Fogarty International的过程中发挥主导作用来完成培训 中心全球健康奖学金，此外，博士生将攻读Prociencia种子 格兰特[秘鲁科学、技术和技术创新顾问实体]，总理 秘鲁的科学资助机构)，由一个指导小组指导。我们将继续提供一个月的优惠 还将在2-5年内举办培训社区外勤工作人员和实验室支助人员的短期课程 提供，扩大伊基托斯的研究计划支持人员池。

PROJECT SUMMARY 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 infectious 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. In this renewal, our goal is to continue expanding the local workforce of highly trained professionals with public health and infectious diseases research skills, which we propose to achieve by continuing the training of three current trainees on towards the Doctoral Program in Public Health at UNAP and receive two incoming specialist physicians trainees to complete a master’s degree in public health at UNAP. This intensive, mentored training program with both north-south and south-south training components will be led by faculty from four collaborating institutions (UNAP, University of Virginia, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia [the leading biomedical research university in Peru, located in Lima], Tulane University, and the University of Arizona (UA)). The majority of the training will be conducted locally at UNAP through training modules and online components. We will supplement the two-year MPH program at UNAP with complementary, short-term training modules led by UVA, Tulane, UPCH, UA and USDA faculty that will be open to all MPH and doctoral students in the UNAP program, expanding the impact of the training program to approximately 80 additional master’s level trainees and 10 doctoral level trainees. Modules will be specifically focused on human subjects training, rigor and reproducibility of research, scientific writing and grant writing, data management and visualization, scientific communication and regulatory aspects of research in Peru and the US. Working closely with UNAP faculty, we will integrate new program content into the existing MPH and Doctoral curriculum, providing sustainable, ongoing benefits for future UNAP MPH and Doctoral classes. MPH and Doctoral trainees will conclude their training by taking a leading role in writing and assembling a Fogarty International Center Global Health Fellowship, while additionally, Doctoral level students will pursue a Prociencia Seed Grant [entity of the Peruvian Counsel on Science, Technology, and Technological Innovation], the premier scientific funding agency in Peru) under the direction of a mentoring team. We will continue to offer 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.