Uganda HIV/TB COHRE Training Program

描述（由申请人提供）：培训计划的目标是开展培训、研究和指导，并将研究成果付诸实践，以加强国家能力，应对乌干达不断演变的艾滋病毒和结核病流行带来的公共卫生和科学挑战。这一目标将通过联合临床研究中心、乌干达Makerere、Gulu和Mbarara大学、乌干达国家结核病和麻风病规划、乌干达卫生部、美国凯斯西储大学和美国佐治亚大学之间的合作来实现。本提案的具体培训目标是通过培训、指导和加强艾滋病毒和结核病控制项目之间以及这些项目与学术/研究机构之间的合作，加强艾滋病毒/结核病合并感染的预防、护理和治疗的研究培训能力和基础设施，以开展艾滋病毒/结核病感染的临床、业务和卫生服务研究。为了实现目标，我们建议在乌干达和美国机构开展研究生学位（长期）和非学位课程（短期和中期）课程的跨学科培训。长期学位培训将在艾滋病毒/结核病预防和管理相关专业（如流行病学、卫生服务研究、公共卫生和临床专业）进行。短期和中期课程将包括卫生信息学、生物伦理学、运筹学、临床试验以及传播和实施研究。虽然我们将继续在乌干达和美国进行混合培训，但我们建议在乌干达进行更多的硕士学位培训。这将对学员的导师产生更大的需求，因此我们建议对资深研究人员进行导师培训，让他们成为学员的导师。在COHRE第二阶段的头五年开发的导师手册将广泛提供给潜在的导师和学员。公共卫生相关性：培训方案将增加相关人力资源和支持性实验室和诊所基础设施的可用性，通过预防和控制感染、提供治疗服务、研究改善对感染者和受影响者的护理的方法来应对艾滋病毒/结核病公共卫生挑战，并为卫生政策作出贡献，以改善全体人口的健康并最终促进国家发展。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goal of the training program is to conduct training, research and mentorship as well as operationalize research findings in order to strengthen the national capacity to address the public health and scientific challenges of the evolving HIV and TB epidemic in Uganda. This goal will be achieved through collaboration between Joint Clinical Research Centre, Makerere, Gulu and Mbarara Universities of Uganda, Uganda National TB and Leprosy Program, Uganda Ministry of Health, Case Western Reserve University USA and University of Georgia USA. The specific training objectives of this proposal are to strengthen the research training capacity and infrastructure for clinical, operational, and health services research on HIV/TB infections through training, mentorship and strengthen collaboration between HIV and TB control programs as well as collaboration between these programs and academic/research institutions with the view of promoting HIV/TB co-infection prevention, care and treatment. To achieve objectives, we propose inter-disciplinary training in post-graduate degree (long term) and non- degree courses (short-term and intermediate term) courses in Uganda as well as in US institutions. The long term degree raining will be in specialties relevant to HIV/TB prevention and management (such as epidemiology, health services research, public health and clinical specialties). The short-term and medium- term courses will include health informatics, bioethics, operations research, clinical trials, and dissemination and implementation research. Though we will continue with the mix of training experiences in Uganda and US, we propose to have more training at Masters degree in Uganda. This will create a greater demand for mentors for the trainees, so we propose to have training in mentorship for senior researchers who will become mentors of the trainees. The mentors' manual that was developed in the first five years of COHRE phase II will be mad widely available to potential mentors and mentees. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The training program will increase the availability of relevant human resource and supportive laboratory and clinic infrastructure to address the HIV/TB public health challenges through prevention and control of infection, offering curative services, research on ways of improving care for the infected and affected and contribute to health policy so as to improve the health of entire population and eventual national development.