UC Berkeley Global Research Training in Population and Health in Nigeria

拟议的培训计划将加强艾哈迈杜·贝洛两个关键部门的能力 尼日利亚北部扎里亚大学(ABU)在人口健康方面开展应用研究。阿布是 尼日利亚北部首屈一指的大学和主要的医学专业培训中心。精选讲师， 阿布大学公共卫生和妇产科的研究人员和学生。 Gyn)将由加州大学伯克利分校的教职员工和来自北方的杰出教授进行培训和指导 尼日利亚。这项五年努力的长期目标是创建和维护人口中心 和健康研究(CPHR)在艾哈迈杜贝洛大学。我们的中期目标是：1)加强 ABU公共卫生硕士项目的人口组成部分；2)协助ABU实现其目标 提供公共卫生博士学位；3)增强OB部门调查人员的研究技能- 以及4)加强ABU和加州大学伯克利分校(UCB)之间的多学科合作。 我们建议实现这些目标--从而面对 区域--通过开展以下活动：1)组织和教授关于主题的高级短期课程 与人口和健康研究有关；2)为阿布扎比大学的一名教职员工提供博士学位奖学金。 尼日利亚伊巴丹大学公共卫生/人口学研究；3)培养几名博士后 阿布扎比大学的研究人员；4)组织尼日利亚受训人员访问联合银行，以获得指导和技术支持；以及 5)资助、促进和指导两个校区之间的协作研究。 UCB教职员工将为教职员工、博士生和 阿布扎比大学博士后实习生。这些课程将是为期两周的生物统计学、人口统计学的强化课程 分析、流行病学、应用定量和定性研究方法以及研究伦理。 UCB的教职员工将在学员开展合作研究时担任他们的导师。在决赛中 在数据分析阶段，受训者将被邀请作为访问学者来到加州大学伯克利分校校园。这 培训计划将极大地提高ABU开展应用人口健康研究和 从而对扩大获得优质计划生育和生殖健康机会的努力产生持久影响 向尼日利亚北部未得到充分服务的人口提供服务。

The proposed training program will enhance the capacity of two key departments at Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, northern Nigeria, to carry out applied research in Population Health. ABU is the premiere university and main center for medical specialty training in northern Nigeria. Selected lecturers, researchers, and students at ABU's Departments of Public Health and of Obstetrics & Gynaecology (OB- GYN) will be trained and mentored by UC Berkeley faculty and distinguished professors from northern Nigeria. The long term objective of this five year effort is to create and maintain the Center for Population and Health Research (CPHR) at Ahmadu Bello University. Our intermediate objectives are to: 1) strengthen the population component of the ABU Master's Program in Public Health; 2) assist ABU meet its goal of offering a Ph.D. in Public Health; 3) enhance the research skills of investigatorsat the Department of OB- GYN; and 4) increase multidisciplinary collaboration between ABU and the UC Berkeley (UCB). We propose to meet these objectives - andthus confront the health and demographic problems inthe region - by carrying out the following activities: 1) organize and teach advanced short courses ontopics related to population and health research; 2) provide a scholarship to an ABU faculty member for Ph.D. studies in Public Health/Demography at Ibadan University, Nigeria; 3) train several cohorts of postdoctoral researchers at ABU; 4) organize visits by Nigerian trainees to UCB for mentoring and technical support; and 5) fund, promote, and mentor collaborative research between the two campuses. UCB faculty will give short courses on population and health designed for faculty, doctoral, and postdoctoral trainees at ABU. These will be intensive two week courses on biostatistics, demographic analysis, epidemiology, applied quantitative and qualitative research methodologies, and research ethics. UCB faculty will serve as mentors to trainees as they carry out collaborative research. During the final stages of their data analysis the trainees will be invited to the UC Berkeley campus as visiting scholars. This training program will greatly enhance ABU's capacity to carry out applied population health research and thus have lasting impact on efforts to extend access to quality family planning and reproductive health services to underserved populations across northern Nigeria.