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The New York State International Training Program is a multi-institutional, multi-national collaborative effort, sponsored by the Fogarty International Center and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The program is cooperatively administered by the SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, the University at Albany School of Public Health, and the New York State Department of Health’s Wadsworth Center and Division of Epidemiology in Albany.

The overall program objective is to train public health and laboratory scientists, epidemiologists, clinicians, and other health professionals to deal with AIDS/HIV, TB, STDs, hepatitis and emerging infections that impact the countries of Armenia, Estonia, Georgia and Russia. Training will be provided by infectious disease specialists, clinicians and research scientists from the following partner institutions:

    New York State Department of Health - Wadsworth Center and Division of Epidemiology
    University at Albany School of Public Health
    State University of New York Downstate Medical Center
    National Development and Research Institutes
    New York Blood Center
    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

The training areas include:

    Bacteriology
    Behavorial Intervention
    Drug Resistant Organisms
    Emerging Infections
    Epidemiology with a Focus on Infectious Diseases
    Hepatitis
    HIV/AIDS
    Immunology
    Nosocomial Infections
    Parasitology
    Sexually Transmitted Diseases
    Tuberculosis
    Virology

The training for each of the applicants will be tailored according to his/her interest within the parameters of the program. It is our aim that each applicant, upon returning to his/her home institution, will develop their own research program, develop and implement epidemiologic/laboratory studies, and/or spearhead improvements in diagnostics, and in enhancing existing and developing new public health programs focused on infectious disease.


Last updated: Wednesday, December 20, 2006

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