Chronic Disease Epidemiology
Yale AIDS International Training and Research Program (AITRP)
In 1998, the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA) at Yale University, in collaboration with the Biomedical Center and St. Petersburg State University (SPSU) in St. Petersburg, Russia, began a Fogarty International Center–funded AITRP program focused on HIV prevention research that spans a wide range of public health–related disciplines. This program has provided training mentorship, research support, and lasting partnerships to 72 trainees, including 49 from Russia, 14 from China, six from India and three from Nicaragua. The program is helping in–country institutions to conduct research needed to develop evidence–based policies to mount effective responses to the HIV/AIDS epidemic, and is enabling trainees to apply their research and teaching skills upon their return home.
We also are promoting in–country training through our support to the Masters in Public Health Program at SPSU, a critical step in
preparing a next generation of Russian public health leaders. Trained public health professionals are urgently needed to implement
programs to combat HIV, tuberculosis, obesity, tobacco– and alcohol–related diseases, and other causes of morbidity and premature
mortality in Russia.
In 2002, the Yale AITRP received a supplemental award from the Fogarty International Center to assist in the planning and development of a public health educational program for master’s students at SPSU. A series of collaborative meetings, which included faculty from YSPH and representatives from the St. Petersburg Biomedical Center and SPSU, was held to identify local public health needs and establish the program’s organizational structure and curriculum. Russia’s first university–based MPH program opened in September 2005. The first cohort of 11 MPH students graduated in June 2007, and 15 students graduated in June 2008.
The Yale AITRP also includes two supplements:
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