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.
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The Miriam Hospital
164 Summit Ave.
RISE Building, 153
Providence, RI 02906
ph: (401) 793-4711/4710
fax: (401) 793-4709
Eileen Caffrey
(401) 793-4859
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.
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Program Director - TBD
Case Western Reserve University
School of Medicine
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
10900 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44106-4945
ph: (216) 368-4192
fax: (216) 368-3970
Grace Svilar, Program Coordinator
Fogarty Training Grant
(216) 368-3727
Alice Cantini, Assistant to Dr. Whalen
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.
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Columbia University
Division of Epidemiology
Mailman School of Public Health
722 West 168 Street, Rm R738
New York, NY 10032
ph: (212) 305-9081
fax: (212) 305-9413
Manidipa Sengupta, Project Coordinator
(212) 305-9081
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.
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Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
One Medical Center Drive
Borwell Research Building, 330W
Lebanon, NH 03756
ph: (603) 650-8840
fax: (603) 650-6199
Richard Waddell, Assistant Professor of Medicine
(603) 650-8840
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.
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Duke University
1558 Busse Bldg.
Box 3867 Medical Center
Durham, NC 27710
ph: (919) 684-2660
fax: (919) 684-8902
Charles Muiruri
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.
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Emory University School of Medicine
Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases
69 Butler Street, S. E.
Atlanta, GA 30303
ph: (404) 727-8797
fax: (404) 525-2957
Maria Sullivan, Project Coordinator
Emory AIDS Training and Research Program
(404) 727-8797
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.
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Harvard University School of Public Health
Dept of Immunology and Infectious Diseases
651 Huntington Avenue,
FXB Bldg #402
Boston, MA 02115
ph: 617-432-2334
fax: 617-739-8348
Sara Mazzola
(617) 432-4665
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.
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Program Director - Chris Beyrer, M.D. (Bio)
Johns Hopkins University
Bloomberg School of Public Health
615 N. Wolfe Street, Room E-7138
Baltimore, MD 21205
ph: (410) 614-5247
fax: (410) 614-8371
Denise Carolan, Administrator
(410) 955-1514
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.
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Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Division of Infectious Diseases
One Gustave L. Levy Place
Box 1090
New York, NY 10029-6574
ph: (212) 241-3928
fax: (212) 860-9607
Abigail Bucavalas, Coordinator
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.
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New York University School of Medicine
c/o Veterans Affairs Medical Center
423 East 23rd Street
New York, NY 10010-5050
ph: (212) 263-6769
fax: (212) 951-6321
Flavia Camacho, Project Administrator - AIDS & TB
(212) 263-6769
Geraldine Richards, Program Coordinator
(212) 263-6769
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.
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Northwestern University
Feinberg School of Medicine
Division of Infectious Diseases
Chicago, IL 60611
ph: (312) 695-5085
fax: (312) 695-5088
Baiba Berzins, Program Administrator
(312) 695-5012
Babafemi Taiwo, Academic Director
(312) 695-0009
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.
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State University of New York Downstate Medical Center
Department of Preventive Medicine
Community Health
450 Clarkson Avenue, Box 1240
Brooklyn, NY 11203-2098
ph: (718) 270-2690
fax: (718) 270-3386
Dana Turner, Program Coordinator
(718) 270-4571
Adrienne Pierce
Identifying Future Directions in International HIV Research - Proceedings of the New York HIV Research Centers Consortium Scientific Conference May 15, 2005 [PDF 343KB]
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.
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University of California Berkeley School of Public Health
Division of Epidemiology
140 Warren Hall, MC 7360
Berkeley, CA 94720-7360
ph: (510) 642-0327
fax: (510) 643-5163
Diane Hinkley, Division Manager
(510) 643-0380
Juanita Cook, Program Coordinator
(510) 643-8154
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.
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University of California, Los Angeles, School of Public Health
Department of Epidemiology
Box 951772
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1772
ph: 310-206-2837
fax: 310-206-6039
Deborah Shin, Program Coordinator
(310) 825-9303
Wendy Aft
(310) 206-2837
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).
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University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health
Health Policy and Administration
1603 West Taylor (MC 923)
Chicago, IL 60612
ph: (312) 996-7825
fax: (312) 996-5356
Saima Chaudhry, Program Coordinator
(312) 413-8386
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:
To provide bio-medical and behavioral science training in HIV/AIDS prevention at the MS, Ph.D., and post-doctoral levels in Public Health and/or Nursing for students and practicing professionals from Chile, China, Indonesia, and Malawi;
To strengthen the capacity for HIV/AIDS research and training at the four AITRP collaborating universities and in their country by helping to build a critical core of university faculty and research scientists with an expertise in AIDS research and its successful application to HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment, and care; and
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To foster multi-disciplinary training and research on HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment, and care in Chile, China, Indonesia, and Malawi by establishing and maintaining long-term cooperative scientific relationships between the program's collaborating partners, UIC, and other AIDS-relevant educational institutions and research communities.
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.
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University of Maryland Baltimore
Institute of Human Virology
725 West Lombard Street, N460
Baltimore, MD 21201
ph: (410) 706-0353
fax: (410) 706-1944
Joyce Johnson, Training Coordinator
University of Maryland Baltimore
(410) 706-0353
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.
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University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health
1120 NW 14th Street, Suite 922
Miami, FL 33136
ph: (305) 243-4072
fax: (305) 243-4687
Pauline O'Donoghue, Program Administrator
(305) 243-4072
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.
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University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Nebraska Center for Virology
School of Biological Sciences
E249A Beadle Center
1901 Vine Street
Lincoln, NE 68588-0666
ph: (402) 472-4560
fax: (402) 472-8722
Jolene Walker, Administrative Coordinator
(402) 472-4560
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.
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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Division of Infectious Diseases
130 Mason Farm Road, CB# 7030
Bioinformatics Building, Suite 2118
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7030
ph: (919) 966-2536
fax: (919) 966-6714
Myron Cohen,
Co-Director
(919) 966-2536
Kirsten Leysieffer, Program Manager
130 Mason Farm Road, CB# 7030
Bioinformatics Building, Suite 2118
ph: (919) 843-4377
fax: fax: (919) 966-6714
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.
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University of Pittsburgh
Graduate School of Public Health
Epidemiology and Medicine
Parran Hall, Room 521
130 DeSoto Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15261
ph: 412-624-3137
fax: 412-624-3120
Joyce Snyder
(412) 624-3137
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.
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University of South Florida
4202 Fowler Avenue
ADM 200
Tampa, FL 33620
Stephanie Medley, Coordinator
Telephone: (813) 974-8570
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.
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Health Science Center at Houston
School of Public Health Center for Infectious Diseases
1200 Herman Pressler, RAS E747
Houston, Texas 77030
Telephone:(713) 500-9351
Margaret Dybola, CITAR Coordinator/AITRP Administrator
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
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University of Washington
Harborview Medical Center
325 Ninth Avenue
Box 359909
Seattle, WA 98104
ph: (206) 543-4278
fax: (206) 543-4818
Eileen Seese, Program Manager
206 543-4278
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.
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Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Institute for Global Health
2215 Garland Avenue (Room 319, Light Hall)
Nashville, TN 37232-0242
ph: (615) 322-9374
fax: (615) 343-7797
Holly Cassell, Sr. Program Manager
Participating Countries: Bangladesh, China, India, Pakistan, Zambia
(Funded since 1998)
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. The Vanderbilt AITRP has major collaborations in China, Pakistan, and Zambia and less intensive collaborations in Bangladesh and India. The grant was initially awarded in 1998 to Dr. Sten Vermund, PI at the University of Alabama, Birmingham (UAB) and was transferred to Vanderbilt University following Dr. Vermund's move in 2005; however, UAB continues to be a major collaborator on the grant. Now in its tenth year of funding, the AITRP has trained 60 persons in MPH, MSPH, or DrPH degrees - nearly all of whom have returned to their home nations - and over 1200 persons in short courses. Trainees are able to choose from a variety of public health degree programs at UAB and Vanderbilt (MPH, DrPH, or PhD) as well as the MSc degree from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
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Weill Cornell Medical College
Division of International Medicine
Infectious Disease
1300 York Avenue, Room A-421
New York, NY 10021
ph: (212) 746-6320
fax: (212) 746-8675
Vaishali Patel, Grants
(212) 746-6680
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 largely 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.
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Yale University School of Medicine
60 College Street
P.O. Box 208034
New Haven, CT 06520-8034
ph: (203) 785-2853
fax: (203) 764-8469
Annette Ackerman, Coordinator
(203) 764-4344
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.
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Updated June 2008
