New York State International Training and Research Prog*

描述（由申请人提供）：纽约州艾滋病国际培训和研究（NYS AITRP）最初于1993年获得资助，重点关注中欧的三个国家，捷克共和国（CR），匈牙利和波兰。这个项目代表了一个学术医疗中心（纽约州立大学下州分校）、一个公共卫生学院（纽约州立大学奥尔巴尼分校）和一个国家卫生部门（纽约州卫生部门）的独特合并。该方案为58名受训者提供了实验室和人口研究方面的长期培训，并为另外40名受训者提供了短期培训。出版了200多种出版物和收到了大量校外资金，证明了它们的生产力。随着爱沙尼亚、俄罗斯、格鲁吉亚和亚美尼亚因注射过量而继发的艾滋病毒发病率不断上升，我们建议继续实现我们的目标，即培养和维持新一代公共卫生领导人和学术调查人员，他们在以人口为基础的生物医学干预措施方面受过培训，可以共同防止艾滋病毒在东欧的传播和发展。这将通过以下努力来实现：

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The New York State AIDS International Training and Research (NYS AITRP) was initially funded in 1993 to focus on three countries in Central Europe, the Czech Republic (CR), Hungary and Poland. This program represents a unique merging of an academic medical center (SUNY Downstate), a school of public health (SUNY Albany) and a state department of health (New York State Department of Health). The program has provided long term training in both laboratory and population based studies to 58 trainees and short-term training to an additional 40. Their productivity is evidenced by publication of over 200 publications and the receipt of substantial extramural funding. With rising rates of HIV secondary to IDU in Estonia, Russia, Georgia and Armenia, we proposed to continue our goal of creating and sustaining a new generation of public health leaders and academic investigators trained in population-based and biomedical interventions that can collaboratively prevent the transmission and progression of HIV in Eastern Europe. This will be accomplished by the following efforts: a. To foster collaborative, interdisciplinary in-country research networks among our trainees and those supported by other programs; b. To utilize academic resources in New York State as well as the AITRP network to ensure that the most productive assets are utilized for training efforts; c. To build in-country research capacity and productivity via a continuous mentoring process; d. To utilize existing in-country training assets to take advantage of existing regional centers of excellence. Recognizing the challenges to blood safety in the region, we will continue to work with the New York Blood Center on blood safety training. Given the burden of injection drug use, we will also utilize the National Development and Research Institutes as a training partner. Building on a growing infrastructure of NIH and other funding in country, we will provide training for 7 candidates for the MS degree in epidemiology, 5 post-docs in laboratory science, 5 medium term "certificates" in epidemiology, 5 trainees in blood safety, and 5 internships at NDRI in interventions focused on drug users. In addition, we will initiate a short-term training course in the Caucasus, focused on epidemiology in conjunction with the Emory University AITRP.