Fogarty International Collaborative Trauma and Injury Research Training Program (Ictirt)

The summary for the Fogarty International Collaborative Trauma and Injury Research Training Program (Ictirt) grant is detailed below. This summary states who is eligible for the grant, how much grant money will be awarded, current and past deadlines, Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) numbers, and a sampling of similar government grants. Verify the accuracy of the data FederalGrants.com provides by visiting the webpage noted in the Link to Full Announcement section or by contacting the appropriate person listed as the Grant Announcement Contact. If any section is incomplete, please visit the website for the National Institutes of Health, which is the U.S. government agency offering this grant.

Fogarty International Collaborative Trauma and Injury Research Training Program (Ictirt): 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.