International training and capacity-building efforts

 

The HIV Center and its investigators undertake a number of international training and capacity-building initiatives, including the following:

 

• The Fogarty International Center Fellowship at Columbia University provides advanced training in epidemiology, behavioral science, ethics, and basic science of HIV/TB for fellows from Southern Africa. HIV Center faculty have also been involved in many aspects of the global response to the AIDS epidemic, including advocacy and policy, responses. 

 

• The MAC AIDS Fund Leadership Initiative is a one-year training program designed to help cultivate emerging leaders in South Africa who will make a major contribution to HIV/AIDS prevention advocacy at the local, regional, or national levels. The focus of the program is on reducing the spread of HIV and the impact of AIDS by addressing the role of gender inequality.

 

• The Social Science Training and Research (STAR) Partnership represents a collaboration between Columbia University social scientists with expertise in HIV and leading Vietnamese researchers. The STAR Partnership creates linkages between the Center for Gender, Sexuality and Health at the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, the HIV Center, and the Center for AIDS Research and Training at Hanoi Medical University (HMU).

 

• The HIV Center also plays an important role as a facilitator of high-level scientific exchange and collaboration among the countries of the Middle East and North Africa. In collaboration with the UCLA Program in Global Health. HIV Center Director Anke A. Ehrhardt, Ph.D., has led a series of workshops held in Cairo, Egypt and Rabat, Morocco, as wel as at the International AIDS Conference in Vienna in July 2010. The workshops have included included participants based in Morocco, Syria, Lebanon, and Egypt as well as researchers from the HIV Center and UCLA, and program staff from NIH and the Ford Foundation. Participants have reviewed and advanced the development of individual MENA country research initiatives, provided a capacity-building overview of funding opportunities and strategies, and identified US research partners for MENA research team.

 

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