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AITRP Current AwardsMajor Collaborating Countries and Programs Key Personnel and Countries for Current AITRP Awards
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Albert Einstein College of Medicine ( D43 TW001403)Program Director - Vinayaka R. Prasad, PhD (Bio)Albert Einstein College of Medicine Participating Countries: Bangladesh, India, Rwanda (Funded since 2000) This international AIDS research training program has India as its major country of focus and Rwanda and Bangladesh as minor countries. Our goal is research capacity-building in these countries in the areas of:
To this end, we propose to train scientists from these countries in critical biomedical, epidemiological and behavioral research methodologies. Accessory training in blood safety and clinical research is also provided. Our training models include short, medium and long-term training. Short-term training (India, Rwanda and Bangladesh) will be in-country (to be held mostly in India but attended by trainees in all three countries and sometimes in Rwanda for trainees in that country) via 3 to 10-day workshops aimed at specialized topics aimed at training clinicians and basic researchers in specific HIV/AIDS areas. Medium-term training (Only India and Bangladesh) for 3-6 months is our core training model involving training of graduate students registered for thesis research in AIDS topics in India or Bangladesh visiting Albert Einstein for research on (but not limited to): Characterization of local subtypes of HIV; Basis for possible differential incidence of dementia in AIDS; Drug resistance in HIV and its detection; Developing AIDS prevention methods and the evaluation of their efficacy; Epidemiological studies on attitudes of women to HAART; Development of diagnostics for C. neoformans and Candida sp.; Molecular biology and pathogenesis of fungal opportunistic pathogens of AIDS; Rapid, inexpensive phage-based detection methods for M. tuberculosis and genetic approaches to study role of M. tuberculosis genes. Long-term training (India, Rwanda and Bangladesh) consists of two components: a Master's degree in Clinical Research Training Program (CRTP) and Post-doctoral research training both in AIDS research. Additional Programs: For Rwanda, we also propose in-country training in epidemiology. An important element of our training plan is ensuring the return of the trainees to their home countries by training graduate students in mid-stream which ensures their return and sharing of expertise, selecting long-term trainees with prior permanent positions as well as assisting them find positions in biomedical research organizations as well as via Advanced in-country research project support for eligible individuals. Baylor College of Medicine (D43 TW001036)Program Director- Mark W. Kline, MD (Bio)Baylor College of Medicine Participating Countries: Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Romania, Uganda (Funded since 2000) The Baylor International Pediatric AIDS Initiative at Baylor College of Medicine, through it's AITRP, has developed collaborative international research training activities that will enhance sustainable research capacity in partner countries hard hit by HIV/AIDS. The five partner countries are: Romania, Botswana, Lesotho, Uganda, and Malawi. The ultimate goal of our activities is to inform the prevention, care and treatment of HIV-infected children and families, thereby improving health and lives and catalyzing expanded access to health-restoring and life-prolonging care and treatment. Both long-term and short-term training opportunities are offered for AITRP fellows. Long-term training is offered in one of three tracks:
Short-term training activities include in-country workshops and a physician exchange program composed primarily of South-to-South training exchanges of direct and immediate relevance to trainees. Brown University/Tufts University (D43 TW000237)Program Director - Kenneth Mayer, MD (Bio)The Miriam Hospital Participating Countries: Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Kenya, The Philippines (Funded since 1993) The overall goals for the Brown-Tufts AITRP have been to train and mentor foreign scientists in the conduct of ethically sound and scientifically rigorous laboratory, clinical, and socio-behavioral research. The primary aim has been to foster the development of a cadre of local scientists who can become competent independent researchers and can address critical issues facing their own countries' HIV/AIDS epidemics. Currently the Brown-Tuft AITRP is active in India, Cambodia, the Philippines, Bangladesh and Indonesia . The primary training vehicles for fellows are short-term training focused on development of a specific research project and long-term training through the MPH programs at both Brown and Tufts Universities. Case Western Reserve University (D43 TW0000011)Program Director - Christopher Whalen, MD (Bio)Case Western Reserve University Participating Countries: Uganda (Funded since 1988) The AIDS International Training and Research Program at Case Western Reserve University (AITRP CWRU) provides research training for Ugandan physicians, scientists and public health professionals at all levels to develop scientific leadership in the field of HIV prevention and treatment research. The program is implemented through a coherent, multi-disciplinary program of education and training in degree and non-degree experiences that are based both at CWRU and in Uganda . Non-degree training will include a mix of short and long-term training experiences both in the U.S. and in Uganda. In-country activities will be coordinated and organized through a Ugandan research mentor, a former AITRP trainee, and will be implemented through the Ugandan Society for Health Scientists, a newly formed research society, organized by former FIC trainees and supported, in part, by AITRP CWRU. Columbia University (D43 TW000231)Program Director - Dr. Quarraisha Abdool Karim (Bio)Columbia University Participating Countries: South Africa (Funded since 1993) The Columbia-South African AITRP (CU-SA AITRP), established in 1993, supports HIV/AIDS and related TB international research training for health scientists, clinicians, and allied health workers who are citizens of southern African region. The program provides a range of post-doctoral non-degree traineeships at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in the disciplines of public health, epidemiology, social/behavioral sciences and basic sciences focusing on AIDS and tuberculosis. Potential trainees should have at least a doctoral level degree to be eligible for a long-term traineeship. Potential applicants should have already started a research career in TB and/or HIV as evidenced by at least one publication and should already be working with established local AIDS / TB researchers or on already funded projects. Partners in the program include the Public Health Research Institute in New Jersey, Cornell Medical Center in New York, Duke University in North Carolina, University of North Carolina, University of Washington, and University of Toronto. Dartmouth Medical School/Boston University (D43 TW006807)Program Director - C. Fordham von Reyn, M.D. (Bio)Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center Participating Countries: Tanzania (Funded since 2003) The Dartmouth/Boston University AITRP is designed to provide diverse degree and non-degree training to Tanzanian scientists with the overall goal of strengthening research capacity in HIV and tuberculosis at the Muhimbili University College of Health Sciences (MUCHS) in Dar es Salaam . The AITRP builds on an existing and successful collaboration which has launched the first efficacy trial for a vaccine against tuberculosis among persons with HIV infection. The Program is based on a sequenced plan of training and subsequent research mentored by recognized experts in international public health, health outcomes research, behavioral science, immunology, HIV, tuberculosis and vaccine research. The Program will enhance research capacity in all basic areas (e.g. epidemiology, clinical trials) and will also provide innovative training in new and specialized areas (e.g., mucosal immunity, evaluative clinical sciences). Guidance and oversight is provided by a Training Advisory Group with outstanding credentials in international public health. Duke University (D43 TW006732)Program Director - John D. Hamilton (Bio)Duke University Participating Countries: Tanzania (Funded since 2004) The Duke AITRP builds upon a long-standing partnership between Duke University Medical Center (DUMC) and Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center (KCMC) in Moshi, Tanzania. By bringing together the collective expertise of investigators in Duke's Human Vaccine Institute, the AIDS Clinical Trials Unit, and the Sanford Institute of Public Policy, and by augmenting training at the degree-based Clinical Research Training Program at Duke with other degree programs from the University of North Carolina School of Public Health and training in the various clinical research disciplines at Family Health International and facilitating "South-to-South" training opportunities within Africa, this AITRP will strengthen significantly the sustainability of HIV/AIDS research in Tanzania. Training opportunities include long-term (1-2 years) training in the U.S. focusing on biomedical, epidemiological, operational, and behavioral aspects of AIDS prevention and treatment for selected investigators, medium-term (3-6 months) training in the U.S. for health professionals in laboratory procedures and research techniques which directly support research and short-term (3-6 weeks) regional training in sub-Saharan Africa for professionals, technicians, and other research staff. Long-term trainees returning to Moshi will continue to receive intellectual and logistical support with competitive re-entry research support relevant to Tanzanian research priorities from qualified Duke and KCMC faculty. Emory University (D43 TW001042)Program Director - Carlos del Rio, MD (Bio)Emory University School of Medicine Participating Countries: Armenia, Ethiopia, Georgia, Mexico, Rwanda, Vietnam, Zambia (Funded since 1998) Located in Atlanta, the Emory AITRP has established itself as a unique interdisciplinary training environment, producing highly qualified HIV/AIDS researchers in Mexico, Georgia, Armenia, Vietnam, Ethiopia, Zambia and Rwanda. This geographic diversity greatly enhances the international relevance of our AITRP by including countries with nascent (Newly Independent States of the former Soviet Union), emerging (Vietnam and Mexico ), and established (our African partners) epidemics. Major strengths for the program include the innovative focus on inter-disciplinary cross-training; and the collaboration with DHHS-funded agencies and programs, including Emory's Center for AIDS Research, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Emory's K30-funded MSCR program. The specific aims of the Emory AITRP include: building human resource capacity in the collaborating countries by providing long, medium and short-term training and research opportunities in HIV/AIDS to a diverse group of outstanding young researchers; fostering collaborative training and research among Emory, The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and investigators in Mexico, Georgia, Armenia, Vietnam, Ethiopia, Rwanda and Zambia on HIV prevention and care; building in-country research capacity that will support evidence-based translation of research into policy and practice in the collaborating countries; and enhancing south-south collaboration by taking advantage of existing regional centers of excellence in the collaborating countries. Harvard School of Public Health (D43 TW000004)Program Director - Max Essex, DVM, PhD (Bio)Harvard University School of Public Health Participating Countries: Botswana, China, Nigeria, Senegal, Tanzania, Thailand (Funded since 1988) The Harvard AITRP has been focused for many years on Botswana, Tanzania, Thailand, and Senegal and more recently China, and Nigeria. The four countries where the program has been active for many years all have NIH research grants that have collaborators at Harvard working jointly with the investigators in that country. The Botswana component supports research training for designated treatment, vaccines, and mother/ infant studies, and a large state of the art laboratory. The Tanzania component has two sites, Dar-es-Salaam with research training focused on nutritional studies and viral epidemiology in mother/infant populations, and Moshi with research training on the epidemiology of sexual transmission of HIV, particularly for the role of cofactors such as Herpes simplex in transmission, and for the evaluation of microbicides. The Thailand component provides research training to support mother/infant chemoprophylaxis and viral epidemiology and the characterization of the HIV-1 E subtype. Senegal was the first major collaborator for HIV studies at Harvard, beginning in the late 1980's. AITRP trained staff in Senegal have also been instrumental for training in epidemiological and laboratory skills in Nigeria. Each year several of the Senegal staff work jointly with Harvard staff to offer short course training in Nigeria and to offer laboratory-based training for Nigerians in Senegal. The Nigeria program has benefited substantially from the AITRP program in Senegal, and one member of the Botswana group has traveled to Nigeria for training in the use of HAART. The collaboration with China began about three years ago, primarily in relation to vaccines. Johns Hopkins University (D43 TW000010)Program Director - Chris Beyrer, M.D. (Bio)Johns Hopkins University Participating Countries: China, Ethiopia, India, Malawi, South Africa, Thailand, Uganda, Vietnam (Funded since 1988) The Hopkins AITRP is centered in the Department of Epidemiology in the Bloomberg School of Public Health (BSPH) and includes faculty across the Schools of Public Health and Medicine. Primary partner countries include: Uganda, Malawi, Ethiopia, South Africa, Thailand, Vietnam, India, and China. The program emphasizes training in epidemiology, clinical trials, prevention research, bioethics, HIV vaccinology, behavioral sciences, virology and research on substance use and HIV infection, HIV vaccine clinical research; Anti-viral drug trials with the ACTG; bridging prevention and care initiatives; molecular epidemiology; human rights and HIV/AIDS and qualitative research methods. Training options include long-term degrees, short-term training, postdoctoral training and in-country training workshops. Mount Sinai School of Medicine (D43 TW001037)Program Director - Debbie Indyk (Bio)Mount Sinai School of Medicine Participating Countries: Argentina (Funded since 2000) The Mount Sinai AITRP supports research training for scientists in Argentina. The program works with consortium members and Argentine faculty in identifying and supporting trainees in various Masters and PhD level programs in academic institutions throughout Argentina. Research training focuses on biomedical prevention/basic research; behavioral and socio-medical prevention research; data management and analysis, and translational research that can draw upon basic, biologic and behavioral science. The program links research training and resources with strategic community based settings. Under the guidance of assigned Argentine and/or US mentors, each trainee develops a research project in one of the following areas in a combined didactic and experiential program: prevention of perinatal HIV transmission; primary prevention of HIV through secondary prevention of STDs; prevention of blood borne diseases through infection control; capacity development for the generation of reliable data sets; prevention, diagnosis and treatment of TB; and clinical, diagnostic and basic research in HIV/TB. The Argentine/US Consortium is formed by the MSSM (within the Mount Sinai/New York University Health System), the State University of New York at Albany, the AIDS Institute of the NYSDOH and several institutions in Argentina. New York University School of Medicine (D43 TW001409)Program Director - Suman Laal, PhD (Bio)New York University School of Medicine Participating Countries: Cameroon, China, India (Funded since 2000) The NYU AITRP provides research training for health scientists, clinicians and allied health workers from designated institutions in India, Cameroon and China in order to facilitate research that will effectively lead to the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of infections with HIV-1 and M. tuberculosis. Research training in techniques of genotyping of M.tb isolates; incidence, early diagnosis and management of TB in HIV-infected children; methods of delivery of integrated services to patients with TB and HIV co infections; subtype analysis by HMA; phylogenic analysis of env, gag, and pol genes; care and management of HIV/AIDS and TB patients and genomic isolation of DNA from M.tb are included. Northwestern University (D43 TW007995)Program Director - Robert L Murphy, MD (Bio)Northwestern University Participating Countries: Mali, Nigeria (Funded since 2008) The Northwestern University Fogarty AIDS International Training and Research Program (NU AITRP) strengthens HIV/AIDS and TB therapeutics through training and research for clinicians, scientists, and allied healthcare providers from Nigeria. The NU AITRP builds upon the historic linkages between the faculty at NU and the faculty at University College Hospital (UCH) University of Ibadan in Ibadan and Jos University Teaching Hospital (JUTH) in Jos, Nigeria. The goal of the NU AITRP is to create and sustain an AIDS research infrastructure in partnership with UCH and JUTH that facilitates collaboration, provides access to a full range of research resources, and promotes training and education. The expertise and infrastructure for HIV and TB research training at the Center for HIV and TB Research (SEREFO), University of Bamako, Bamako, Mali is leveraged to train the Nigerians, and serve as a platform for expanded collaboration. The objective of the NU AITRP is to continue to support the efforts of productive, creative and innovative scientists to perform detailed, intensive and interrelated research studies through a collaborative research training program. The impetus and rationale for the center is to continue to provide scientific leadership and administrative mechanisms and infrastructure to enable a greater level and quality of interdisciplinary and inter-institutional scientific collaboration and translational research conducted by diverse, exceptionally qualified, and committed scientists spanning a broad range of clinical and basic science disciplines. The justification for this integrated approach is based on the supposition that progress in AIDS research is made by groups of basic scientists and clinician-investigators working together across disciplines and institutions to translate discovery into new approaches for the treatment and prevention of disease. The proposed NU AITRP will encompass short-term programs, long-term programs and the development of long-term research support and development partnership. State University of New York Downstate Medical Center (D43 TW000233)Program Director - Jack A. DeHovitz, MD, MPH (Bio)State University of New York Downstate Medical Center Participating Countries: Armenia, Estonia, Georgia, Russia (Funded since 1993) The overall goal of this AITRP is to train basic scientists, epidemiologists, clinicians, and other professionals to deal with AIDS/HIV and infectious diseases that impact the following countries of Central and Eastern Europe: Armenia, Estonia, Republic of Georgia, and Russia. The program has been developed to provide in-depth training for the participants and to encourage the development of research programs for graduates of the program in their native countries. It is our aim that each candidate, upon returning to his/her home institution, will develop their own research program, develop and implement epidemiologic/laboratory studies, and/or spearhead improvements in diagnostics. Five types of training components are offered: US Master of Science degree programs in Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Health Policy & Management; postdoctoral (usually laboratory-based) training in the U.S.; short-term in-country annual infectious disease (AIDS/HIV, TB, and other Infectious Diseases) workshops; blood banking/transfusion medicine; and research training in socio-behavioral influences on substance-use and HIV/AIDS risk (in collaboration with NDRI). The program is cooperatively administered by SUNY Downstate Medical Center (SUNY Brooklyn), SUNY Albany School of Public Health, and the New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) Wadsworth Laboratory. Collaborating institutions in the U.S. include National Development and Research Institutes (NDRI), Inc. and the New York Blood Center. University of California, Berkeley (D43 TW000003)Program Director - Arthur L. Reingold, MD (Bio)University of California Berkeley School of Public Health Participating Countries: India, Kenya, Peru, Uganda, Zimbabwe (Funded since 1988) The UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco AITRP provides multi-disciplinary research training to physicians, dentists, pharmacists, scientists, and support personnel relevant to epidemiologic and behavioral studies related to AIDS, HIV transmission, and treatment in HIV-infected persons. Focus countries include Brazil, Peru, Thailand, India, Cambodia, Vietnam, Uganda, Zimbabwe, and Ivory Coast. Highest priority is given to providing multi-disciplinary training to individuals who are or will be involved in collaborative research projects designed to prevent transmission of HIV, to examine how best to use anti-retroviral drug regimens to treat HIV-infected persons and monitor outcomes in resource constrained settings; and projects aimed at improving the prevention and the treatment of tuberculosis and other opportunistic conditions in HIV-infected individuals. Training is available in a variety of areas, including: all aspects of epidemiologic and behavioral research relevant to AIDS, HIV transmission, sexually transmitted diseases and tuberculosis; all aspects of virology, immunology, serology, and other diagnostic methods related to AIDS/HIV; all aspects of clinical microbiology related to sexually transmitted diseases, tuberculosis, and other opportunistic infections; and the ethical issues involved in human research in general, and AIDS-related research in other countries in particular. Training in the U.S. focuses on masters and doctoral degree programs that provide multi-disciplinary training in epidemiology, biostatistics, and behavioral sciences; long term laboratory training; and medium term training in clinical trials/intervention research. Training in the participating countries focuses on having trainees work under the close supervision of our former trainees, other collaborating scientists, and U.S. faculty resident in country for varying periods of time. University of California, Los Angeles (D43 TW000013)Program Director - Roger Detels, MD, MS (Bio)University of California, Los Angeles, School of Public Health Participating Countries: Burma (Myanmar), Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam (Funded since 1988) The UCLA AITRP was initiated in 1988 with the objective of training health professionals from developing countries in multidisciplinary research for prevention of HIV infection, transmission and disease progression, and effective clinical management of HIV-infected individuals. The initial collaborating countries were Thailand and China. In 1993, the UCLA AITRP focused on countries in Asia with high HIV prevalence, and added Myanmar, Vietnam, India, Indonesia, Laos, and Cambodia. The UCLA AITRP provides multidisciplinary master's and doctoral level training to health professionals in the area of HIV/AIDS, maintains research relationships with former trainees, and assists collaborating countries in developing and implementing independent local research on HIV prevention. One of the strengths of the UCLA AITRP is the use of a liaison in each of their collaborating countries. The liaison selects trainees for the UCLA/ AITRP and assists the trainee in the selection of an appropriate thesis or dissertation topic. UCLA AITRP also has a three-month intensive training program at UCLA intended for health professionals already working in the field of HIV/AIDS control. These postdoctoral fellows learn about the latest developments in HIV/AIDS research, as well as epidemiologic methodologies. In addition, they provide 6-12-month postdoctoral training in immunology and virology in situations where it is essential to strengthen the resources in the collaborating country. Another purpose of the UCLA AITRP is to train and encourage graduates of the program to develop proposals for grants. These include UCLA AITRP pilot studies, as well as successfully applying to other funding agencies such as the World AIDS Foundation, NIH, CDC, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the University of California Pacific Rim Program, University of California's Office of AIDS Research, the World Bank, Saliva Diagnostic Systems, and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). University of Illinois at Chicago (D43 TW001419)Program Director - Judith A. Levy, PhD (Bio)University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health Participating Countries: Chile, China, Indonesia, Malawi (Funded since 2000) The AIDS International Training and Research Program at University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC-AITRP) is designed to build long-term scientific capacities that help to address the AIDS epidemic in Chile, China, Indonesia, and Malawi. It involves collaboration between the UIC School of Public Health, the UIC College of Nursing, and key institutional partners in the four countries: Pontifica Universidad Catolica de Chile, Peking University Health Science Center, Atma Jaya Catholic University-Jakarta, and The University of Malawi. The specific aims of the program are:
The UIC-AITRP offers a mix of long (graduate degree), medium (12 month) and short-term training experiences at UIC and in the host countries. Country and institutional research capacity building is undertaken to help create the supportive infrastructure needed to produce high-quality AIDS research. In meeting its aims, the UIC-AITRP's overall goal is to train a new generation of HIV/AIDS scientific investigators, working within highly synergistic and supportive institutional environments, who will produce the innovative research needed to inform and guide national priorities for successful HIV prevention, treatment and care in their home country. University of Maryland, Baltimore (D43 TW001041)Program Director - William A. Blattner, MD (Bio)University of Maryland Baltimore Participating Countries: Bahamas, Barbados, Jamaica, Nigeria, Trinidad/Tobago (Funded since 1998) With over 65 million infected or dead from HIV infection, heightened urgency is reflected in the dramatic expansion of funding to the developing world from the US government and other sources. Essential to implementing the goals of this funding: expanded therapy and care access, prevention of infection, and the development of HIV vaccines are a series of research issues that guide the training focus of the IHV/UM-AITRP which are aligned with the priorities of the targeted countries of the Caribbean (Bahamas, Barbados, Jamaica, and Trinidad/Tobago) and Nigeria. The goals of the program are to: provide long term (masters degree, Ph.D. and postdoctoral) training for physicians, dentists, public health officials, laboratory-based medical researchers, medical technicians, and nurses to respond to the needs of the countries served; undertake intensive short term training of key in country investigators and support staff to facilitate capacity to undertake HIV/AIDS research activities; and transition trainees into productive research, policy and leadership positions by linking trainee selection to country priorities and growing research capacity by targeting training to align with sustainable research opportunities in country. To achieve these goals, the resources of the IHV and several professional schools of the University of Maryland have formed a multidisciplinary coalition for training in epidemiology and prevention, therapy and care, and clinical, basic and vaccine research. The Training Advisory Group, drawn from senior university faculty, the IHV Scientific Advisory Board, and in-country coordinators from the countries served assists in trainee selection, scientific review and evaluation of training program progress. In-country coordinators promote alignment with country priorities and placement of returning trainees into high-impact positions. University of Miami Miller School of Medicine (D43 TW000017)Program Director - Gail Shor-Posner, PhD, CNS (Bio)University of Miami Miller School of Medicine Participating Countries: Brazil, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Guyana, Jamaica, Peru (Funded since 1988) Through the auspices of the Miami AITRP and Pediatric programs, scholars have received instruction in AIDS/TB prevention and treatment, returning home to guide their countries with initiatives and strategies to reduce the burden of disease. In response to increasing access to HAART in Latin America and the Caribbean, the Miami AITRP objectives are designed to promote independent and sustainable scientific capacity that will enable AITRP trained scientists to assist their countries in conducting wide-scale programs to: promote optimal treatment and care of children and adults living with HIV/AIDS and those co-infected with HIV/TB, enhance adherence for HIV/TB treatment and reduce potential for drug resistance; determine obstacles in access to care, including the impact of stigma on utilization of health services; identify continued high-risk behaviors and establish appropriate interventions to reduce risk of transmission, and improve quality of life in the era of HAART; and evaluate the economic and social impact of prevention and treatment interventions. The establishment of effective scientific infrastructures and long-standing partnerships between Miami and host country institutions will permit the challenges facing our target countries ( Brazil, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Guyana, Jamaica, Peru) to be addressed. Research training will be conducted in Miami and the host countries, to facilitate independent research capacity and sustainable interventions, to ultimately quell the tide of the epidemic. University of Nebraska at Lincoln (D43 TW001429)Program Director - Charles Wood, PhD (Bio)University of Nebraska - Lincoln Participating Countries: China, Zambia (Funded since 2000) The overall objective of our training program is to provide research training for Zambian and Chinese biomedical researchers and health care providers at the University of Nebraska and its collaborating US institutions, the University of Miami and the University of Alabama, to increase their expertise and capability to perform high quality research on HIV and AIDS associated malignancies. The program provides academic training leading to advanced degrees (MS, MPH or PhD); didactic classroom instruction; support to attend seminars and workshops; and subject participation in biomedical and behavioral studies that focus primarily on HIV and AIDS related malignancies diagnosis, treatment and prevention. In addition, our program provides short-term research rotations in the US arranged with direct involvement in basic research training, clinical studies, and the learning of new scientific techniques including protocol development, project management, and data collection/analysis of projects directly relevant to the trainees' interests. Our focus also includes in-country training of local clinicians and public health professionals through workshops that enhance medical know-how and HIV-related prevention including studies on AIDS associated malignancies. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (D43 TW001039)Program Director - Adaora A. Adimora, MD, MPH (Bio)University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Participating Countries: Cameroon, China, Malawi (Funded since 1998) The UNC AITRP provides research training in three countries: The Peoples Republic of China, Malawi and Cameroon. Investigators at UNC have worked in China since 1979, Malawi since 1989, and Cameroon since 1998. The program embraces short, medium and long-term training opportunities balanced between the opportunities and needs of each country. Degree training has been emphasized in Malawi and Cameroon, including support for a new public health school in Malawi. The UNC AITRP has embraced several guiding principles: using training to build strong ties to key in-country organizations; selecting training opportunities that build on funded research projects that can bridge all the strengths of UNC. Wherever possible, the UNC AITRP "overlaps" basic, clinical and epidemiological training and research so as to build critical mass; using the training to embrace and promote international research networks; developing critical south-south and international collaborations to facilitate training and ongoing research opportunities including the Thai Red Cross, the University of Witwatersrand, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and the University of Chicago; looking for opportunities for evolution and innovation including formation of new collaborations, development of unique reentry strategies, and application of novel technologies relevant to the countries involved; and committing to decentralized and in-country leadership. The UNC Fogarty training is designed to react specifically to recent country assessments and ongoing funded research projects. University of Pittsburgh (D43 TW001038)Program Director - Lee H. Harrison, MD (Bio)University of Pittsburgh Participating Countries: Brazil, India (Funded since 1998) The Pittsburgh AITRP provides Brazilian and Indian health professionals with the multidisciplinary tools needed to conduct cutting-edge HIV prevention research in their countries of origin. Research training in Brazil is linked to HIV vaccine trials, studies of the impact of antiretroviral therapy on HIV viral load and antiretroviral-resistant HIV in semen, and studies of the effectiveness of antiretroviral therapy in public clinics in Rio de Janeiro. In India, the research training supports ongoing projects include studies of the genetic heterogeneity of HIV in India, CD8 suppression of HIV, HIV incidence studies to identify high-risk populations, and the development of a novel Clostridium perfringens-based oral vaccine to induce mucosal immunity against HIV and SIV. Trainees will have access to the substantial HIV research activities at Pitt, including the Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study and a diverse array of basic science and diagnostic laboratory resources. The program supports doctoral training in epidemiology and degree training to increase local capability in laboratory and behavioral sciences, with the ultimate goal of providing graduates with the expertise to design, conduct, and analyze HIV prevention trials. University of South Florida (D43 TW006793)Program Director - Patricia Emmanuel, MD (Bio)University of South Florida Participating Countries: India (Funded since 2008) The purpose of this program is to strengthen and sustain, through collaborative research and training, the capability of Indian scientists at Vadodara Medical College (VMC), Gujarat, India to undertake HIV research and prevention efforts. This multidisciplinary training program will include training in epidemiological, clinical, socio-biological, and prevention issues in HIV/AIDS. The research goals are to better understand, investigate, and control the HIV/AIDS epidemic in India. The proposed program will build efficiently on previously developed and highly successful USF-India collaborative relationships. Training will be offered in the USA as well as in India. Training in the US will include long-, intermediate-, and short-term training. This training is intended to provide qualified Indian researchers with master's level expertise. Training in India will provide research and training expertise to scientists, academicians, and health care professionals with a strong commitment to HIV/AIDS research and/or prevention or who are currently working on HIV/AIDS health-related issues. This training is particularly targeted to reach a large number of Indian trainees and those who have work assignments that do not facilitate training outside India. This program will promote new HIV/AIDS research that complements and facilitates existing national and international research endeavors and establishes long-term collaborative relationships between US and Indian investigators. University of Texas, Houston (D43 TW007669)Program Director - Palmer Beasley M.D. BioHealth Science Center at Houston Participating Countries: Vietnam (Funded since 2006) This program, based at University of Texas School of Public Health (UTSPH), is a program for advanced training on HIV prevention research for scientists from Vietnam. Fellowships are for foreign health professionals leading to a four-year doctoral degree at the UTSPH in Houston followed by a 5th post-doctoral year doing supervised research in their home country. Support for CITAR Fellows may come from a variety of sources but to date has been almost exclusively from the Vietnam Education Foundation (VEF) which provides two years of stipends and institutional support. This award supports the remaining three years and travel expenses between Houston and our research and training sites in Vietnam. The goals are: 1. Education & training of outstanding foreign health professionals for research careers in public health in their home country on HIV and HIV related issues and to help them obtain funding to carry out those careers; 2. Foster research and research capacity in developing countries; 3. Promote understanding and cooperation between the United States and other countries. The training experience includes: 1. Faculty supervised HIV field research leading to a thesis; 2. Didactic academic courses; 3. Weekly seminar in which faculty and fellows share presentations and discussions about HIV and related issues, 4. Practica; 5. Course on practical issues of international research, and; 6. Close mentoring of all aspects of the educational experience. A critical cross-cutting element will be ethics, focusing on the ethical conduct of science which will occur in all of the teaching elements. http://www.sph.uth.tmc.edu/citar/default.aspx?id=5073 University of Washington (D43 TW000007)Program Director - Carey Farquhar, MD, MPH (Bio)University of Washington Participating Countries: India, Kenya, Mozambique, Peru, Thailand (Funded since 1988) The Washington International AIDS Research and Training Program (IARTP) was founded in 1988 with the goal of fostering international collaborative AIDS research through scientist exchange. The program provides support for both foreign and U.S. scientists. Specifically, the aims of the IARTP are to: train foreign biomedical scientists in epidemiologic, clinical, biostatistical, behavioral, and laboratory methodologies for applications in AIDS investigation; provide foreign investigators with direct experience in AIDS research, both in the U.S. and in their home countries; provide U.S. investigators from the University of Washington with field experience in AIDS research in an international setting; and foster international multidisciplinary collaborative research on AIDS through the development of institutional affiliations between the University of Washington and foreign institutions. The programmatic emphasis of the IARTP is on HIV prevention research. The University of Washington has established collaborative AIDS research projects with institutions in Kenya, Mozambique, Peru, Thailand, and India. Four educational tracks are offered: Two to Four Year MS/MPH/PhD Track; Three Month Comprehensive Epidemiology Training Track; Three to Six Month Laboratory Training Track; and a Flexible Track to accommodate candidates who wish to propose other types or durations of training to achieve particular goals. In-country short courses are offered in Kenya, Peru, and Thailand in ethics, research methods, and HIV/AIDS care and prevention. Vanderbilt University (D43 TW001035)Program Director - Sten H. Vermund, MD MSc, PhD (Bio)
Vanderbilt University Medical Center Participating Countries: Bangladesh, China, India, Pakistan, Russia, Zambia (Funded since 2000) The Vanderbilt AITRP contributes research training to build institutional and individual biomedical and behavioral research capacities focused on HIV-related research in both prevention and care. The Vanderbilt-AITRP training partnership with our international collaborators is designed to train foreign scientists and key research support staff to conduct independent research and training in their home institutions, as well as to provide global health science leadership in HIV/AIDS science. Our methodological area of emphasis is epidemiology and clinical trials design and conduct. The Vanderbilt AITRP has major collaborations in China, Pakistan, and Zambia and less intensive collaborations in Bangladesh, India and Russia. The research training is multidisciplinary and includes a number of interdisciplinary topics, including a strong emphasis on public health and nursing research. Trainees in Zambia and Pakistan are doing the distance learning M.Sc. course in Epidemiology from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, while retaining their jobs in their home countries Weill Cornell Medical College (D43 TW000018)Program Director - Warren D. Johnson, Jr., MD (Bio)Weill Cornell Medical College Participating Countries: Haiti (Funded since 1988) The Weill Cornell Medical College AITRP supports training of Haitian scientists in the performance of biomedical, epidemiological, interventional and behavioral research on HIV and related opportunistic infections. New and strengthened collaborations with Vanderbilt, Harvard, Columbia, University of California (Berkeley), Meharry Medical College, the New York City Department of Health, the Hastings Center, and the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center offer diverse training opportunities. The training offered will be related to six general HIV/AIDS research categories: HIV vaccine trials; antiretroviral clinical trials; pediatrics and maternal-infant transmission research; HIV-associated opportunistic infections - tuberculosis; ethics and behavioral research; pathogenesis, immunology, and virology. The research training is conducted largly in Haiti, with much of the training done by the former Fogarty trainees and opportunities for advanced training with outstanding US mentors. The training program is imbedded in the ongoing collaborative Cornell-Vanderbilt GHESKIO HIV research activities. Additional training support is provided to address tuberculosis in Brazil, community-based HIV prevention and care in rural Haiti, and expansion into the Dominican Republic. Yale University (D43 TW001028)Program Director - Robert Dubrow, M.D., Ph.D. (Bio)Yale University School of Medicine Participating Countries: Russia (Funded since 1998) The Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA) at Yale University collaborates with the institutions in St. Petersburg to support research training that focuses on HIV prevention and covers a wide range of public health-related disciplines including biology, medicine, sociology, and psychology. The Yale AITRP seeks to continue building an MPH program at St Petersburg State University, a collaborative effort begun in 2002 and led by the Yale AITRP, as a critical step in preparing a new generation of Russian leaders who will spearhead local, regional and national efforts for the protection and improvement of public health. Updated May 2008 |
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