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There
are 5 primary applicants, 9 key leaders and a total of
45 mentor/instructors (see Research
Supervisors and Mentors) from 34 partner institutions
across four continents (Please see About
Us).
Primary
Mentor/Advisor Terms of Reference:
Mentors
- University of Manitoba based mentors - Primary advisors who have a
trainee in the program will be required to contribute $3000.00/yr/trainee to
the training program ;
- are expected to participate fully in the training program (Infectious Minds Discussion Group, courses and practica);
- must provide Annual trainee Performance Evaluations;
- are expected to provide sufficient funding to support their trainees(s) research activities;
- must sign a contract between mentor and trainee.
Keith Fowke,
the nominated principal applicant of this proposal, is
currently Program Coordinator and Chair of the Management
Committee of the ICID Training Program. As his career
has evolved he has taken a greater interest in mentorship
and has led the team on developing the current iteration
of the training program and as part of that development
he is now assuming the lead role for the Training Program.
Dr. Fowke’s research is focused on understanding the
immune correlates of protection to HIV infection and
disease. With 18 years of research experience in Nairobi,
Kenya, Dr. Fowke is also very involved in human and physical
research capacity building in that country and he hold
cross appointments in two department of the University
of Nairobi. Capacity building also includes leading the
development of new laboratory facilities in Nairobi.
Dr. Fowke has active collaborations with each of the
primary applicants. He holds a CIHR New Investigator
award and a Manitoba Research Chair. He is currently
PI on 2 CIHR operating grants and one PHAC grant and
is co-investigator on grants from the NIH and the Bill & Melinda
Gates Foundation.
Francis Plummer,
co-principal applicant of this proposal, is currently
Director of the ICID Training Program. Considered one
of Canada’s leading researchers in HIV epidemiology and
basic science, and a CRC Tier I Chair in Resistance and
Susceptibility to Infections, Dr. Plummer is also Scientific
Director General of the Public Health Agency of Canada’s
(PHAC’s) National Microbiology Laboratory. As Director
of this unique Canadian resource, Dr. Plummer leads research
on SARS, viral hemorrhagic fever viruses, Zoonotic infections,
pandemic influenza, prions and microbial resistance.
Dr. Plummer is a Tier 1 CRC Chair in Resistance and Susceptibility
to Infections and also holds operating grants from the
CIHR, NIH and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation,
and is the PI on the current STIHR training grant.
Stephen Moses has
made major contributions to the field of HIV prevention,
including being co-PI on the Kenya male circumcision
randomized clinical trial that demonstrated that male
circumcision provided a >50% protective effect against
HIV acquisition in men. Dr. Moses, currently residing
in Bangalore, India, is the Director of a major HIV intervention
program in India, undertaking research and providing
HIV prevention programs to a population larger than that
of Canada's. Dr. Moses holds grants from USAID, the Bill & Melinda
Gates Foundation, CIHR and the NIH. His main research
and programmatic interests include biological and behavioural
risk factors for STI/HIV transmission; syndromic approaches
and risk assessment in the management of STIs; focused
interventions among vulnerable groups to reduce the transmission
of STIs and HIV infection; health worker training in
STI management in resource poor settings; and integrated
approaches to STI/HIV prevention and control. From 2001-2006,
he held an Investigator Award from the Canadian Institutes
of Health Research.
John Wylie has
a background in molecular microbiology and social epidemiology
of infectious diseases, with a focus on HIV, STI, and
other bloodborne pathogens. The majority of his work
has been conducted in vulnerable populations in Canada,
many of whom are Aboriginal. He has pioneered the use
of social epidemiology approaches and methods in Canada.
He was one of the originators of the new Colombia-Canada
partnership between the University of Manitoba and the
Universidad de Antioquia in Medellin, Colombia. Dr. Wylie
currently holds grants from the Thorlakson Foundation
and the CIHR.
Javier Mignone is
a new social scientist faculty member and recent graduate
of the ICID Training Program. During his postdoctoral
fellowship with the Training Program his article published
in the Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine on best
practices in intercultural health has been accessed by
2511 readers since it was published (see appended publication).
Dr. Mignone has a background in clinical psychology,
health services administration, and community health
sciences. He is involved in research on social determinants
of health in First Nations in Canada, as well as on Indigenous
health and health care in Guatemala, Colombia and Argentina.
Dr. Mignone also leads HIV prevention studies in rural
India and in Manitoba. He is a Research Affiliate with
the Centre for Aboriginal Health Research.
Joseph Kaufert is
Professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences,
Senior Researcher, Centre for Aboriginal Health Research
and Adjunct professor in the Department of Anthropology.
His research and teaching at the University of Manitoba
and University of London (St. Thomas Medical School)
has focused on cultural issues in public health, health
promotion and research ethics. Over the past 15 years
he has worked with the National Council for Ethics in
Human Research and the CIHR Institute for Aboriginal
Peoples’ Health to develop policy guidelines and knowledge
translation strategies for community-based research ethics.
He currently is Co-P.I or team leader in four CIHR funded
research projects focusing on cultural and ethical issues
in the areas of (1) research ethics and the human subject,
(2) research ethics governance, (3) ethical issues in
access to palliative care, and (4) development of appropriate
hospice care for cultural and religious communities.
James F. Blanchard is
an epidemiologist and public health specialist. He is
currently the Director of the Centre for Global Public
Health (CGPH) at the University of Manitoba (Canada),
where he is also an Associate Professor of Community
Health Sciences. A cornerstone of CGPH is applied research,
and the design and implementation of international health
and development projects in several countries including
India, China and Pakistan, primarily in the areas of
HIV and STI prevention. From 2001-2007, Dr. Blanchard
lived and worked in India as Resident Coordinator of
the University of Manitoba’s HIV programs. Dr. Blanchard’s
diverse research agenda includes the epidemiology of
inflammatory bowel disease, the transmission dynamics
and social epidemiology of HIV and STIs, and improving
the impact of public health interventions through program
science. He currently holds a Tier 2 Canada Research
Chair in Epidemiology and Global Public Health.
Reynold Washington is
a community health specialist affiliated with the St
John's Research Institute, St John's National Academy
of Health Sciences in Bangalore, India. He is the Deputy
Chief of Party of the Samastha project, a five year USAID
funded integrated HIV prevention, care and support program
in Karnataka and coastal Andhra Pradesh, and leads the
medical services division in the Karnataka Health Promotion
Trust. With more than a decade of teaching experience
at the medical college, his expertise lies in developing
and managing systems for capacity development of care
providers, STI and HIV care services and surveillance
of HIV.
Carlos Rojas is
an MD (Colombia) with a PhD in epidemiology (UNC at Chapel
Hill). He has experience in the design and conduction
of epidemiological studies for infectious diseases in
rural (leishmaniasis) and urban (tuberculosis) settings
in Colombia. Since 2003, he has been an associate professor
of the National School of Public Health at the Universidad
de Antioquia where he lectures on epidemiological and
research methods. He has received international funding
from WHO/TDR, IDRC, UNC and PAHO. He has also received
national funding from COLCIENCIAS, Governación
del Valle and Instituto Nacional de Salud de Colombia.
Marissa Becker is
an Infectious Diseases clinician scientist with a focus
on HIV care and research. She is a recent postdoctoral
clinical fellow graduate of the ICID training program.
Over the last five years she has been working in south
India on a number of HIV research studies including being
a site PI on a microbicide trial. She has recently joined
the Departments of Medicine and Medical Microbiology
and is also the Associate Director of the Manitoba HIV
Program. While continuing her infectious disease clinical
work in Winnipeg, she remains active with her ongoing
research studies in India and is establishing an HIV
research program in Manitoba with a focus on the First
Nations population.
Benson Estambale is
the Director of the University of Nairobi Institute for
Tropical and Infectious Diseases (UNITID). Dr. Estambale
is the principal Investigator on a project of intermittent
preventive treatment (IPT) for malaria in schools in
western Kenya.
Other mentors include
experts in HIV/AIDS immunology, epidemiology, clinician
science, aboriginal health research, public health, vector
biology, medical anthropology, global health, prion disease,
clinical trials, vaccines, antimicrobial resistance and
geographic information systems. These experts come from
the Universities of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Nairobi and Universidad
de Antioquia in Medellin, the Public Health Agency of
Canada, as well as St. John’s Medical College in India.
Many have served as mentors for trainees in the ICID
program (see Research Supervisors and Mentors).
List of Mentors
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