Info: FOGARTY INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIVE TRAUMA AND INJURY RESEARCH TRAINING PROGRAM (ICTIRT)

FOGARTY INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIVE TRAUMA AND INJURY RESEARCH TRAINING PROGRAM (ICTIRT)

Published on AidPage by IDILOGIC on Jun 24, 2005

Data sources: Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA), Grants.gov

Administered by:

Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Institutes of Health
(see all US Federal Agencies)

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Original Grant - Apr 5, 2004

Applications Due:

Multiple Receipt Dates - See Link to Full Announcement for details.

total funding:	Not Available
max award:	none
min award:	none
cost sharing, matching:	No
number of awards:	Not Available
type of funding:	Grant

Description:

The Fogarty International Center (FIC), in partnership with the
National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI), the National
Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB), the
National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR), the National Institute
on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), the National Institute of
Mental Health (NIMH), the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences
Research (OBSSR), the Office of Research on Womens Health (ORWH), the
National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC), Centers of
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the World Health Organization
(WHO) and the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), invites
applications from nonprofit, private or public, domestic educational
and research institutions in developed countries to establish research
training programs that contribute to the capacity of developing country
investigators and institutions to conduct human trauma and injury
research relevant to the health needs of the developing country.
Applications are solicited to create innovative research training
programs within existing NIH- or CDC-supported scientific
collaborations between developed and developing country researchers to
begin to build a critical mass of scientists, health professionals and
academics with human trauma and injury expertise and a sustainable
research environment at the collaborating developing country
institution.

The International Collaborative Trauma and Injury Research Training
Programs will honor the memory of Dr. John "Jack" Furman Finklea, whose
leadership and advice were instrumental in the creation and development
of CDC's extramural injury control research grants program and a
closely related FIC program, the International Training and Research in
Environmental and Occupational Health (ITREOH) Program. The program
will enhance and promote equitable international collaborations between
investigators in the developed world and those in low- and middle-
income nations (see World Bank definition at
http://www.worldbank.org/data/databytopic/GNIPC.pdf) where a base level
of institutional infrastructure for the advancement of sustainable
trauma and injury science is already established. Each proposed
program should provide opportunities to generate the combined expertise
at the developing country institution that could contribute to the
long-term goal of harnessing new injury knowledge and skills to assess,
diagnose, prevent or ameliorate acute and long-term morbidity and
mortality stemming from a health issue with a significant injury
component. The burden of disease and the biological, behavioral, and
psychosocial changes that result from such trauma and injury should
produce substantial public health cost in that country. Programs
should include training in one or more of the following areas: injury
statistics and epidemiology, prevention, biological and behavioral
sciences, clinical injury and trauma care, blood product research,
rehabilitation programs or low-cost prosthetics, medical imaging such
as low-cost imaging development, the use of technology to diagnose and
localize injury, bioengineering methods and technology, mental health
issues such as traumatic stress disorders (acute and post trauma
phases), depression, suicide risk, post-trauma injury and nursing care
issues and medical informatics. Expertise should be developed
simultaneously on the ethical, social and legal implications of human
trauma and injury research in each program, as well as address
diversity issues on a national or institutional basis. Consideration
of gender issues related to trauma is specifically encouraged. The
training programs supported will begin to address and reduce the
growing disparity in injury sciences between those nations that have
been at the forefront of such research and those with a limited but
growing capacity in injury science in developing regions of the world.