PRIIIA-TEAMS Program Aims
PRIIIA-TEAMS Program Aims
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PRIIIA-TEAMS is a collaborative research training grant between the University of Pittsburgh in the United States and St. John’s Medical College and Hospital in India. The Fogarty International Centre, National Institutes of Health, USA funds the grant. It focuses on hands-on, trainee-initiated research as the keystone for training while fostering inter-disciplinary team-based approaches, focusing on selected mental disorders, and medical disorders co-morbid with those psychiatric disorders. The goal is to enrol and train 35 individuals as short-term trainees, 15 long-term trainees, and 10 mentors along with their interdisciplinary mentor-mentee teams. We also focus on target areas of the National Mental Health Programme, and the National Mental Health Policy of India to improve psychiatric research human infrastructure, implementation, and intervention training in India.
Step 1
Step 1
Step 1
Recruit and enrol highly qualified psychiatrists, nurses, neurologists, social workers, researchers, mental health practitioners, and professionals working for mental health in comorbid medical disorders (specifically diabetes mellitus), who are interested in clinical and implementation research. Both short-term (3 months) and long term (up to 3 years) training is offered.
We will additionally enrol mentors in training with their teams for training in mentoring skills.
For all tracks, we plan to include researchers in psychiatry, psychology, social work, rehabilitation and software engineering at academic institutions; professionals employed at non-governmental organizations focused on mental health care; mid-level health professionals in private practice; and scientists involved in mental health research at non-medical scientific institutions.
Step 2
Step 2
We will conduct both virtual and in-person courses on research ethics, epidemiology, biostatistics, implementation science, and much more. Certification for short-term training will be given.
We will mentor potential researchers registered for post-graduate mental health training programs as long-term trainees.
We also provide a platform for training of interdisciplinary research teams focused on neurodevelopmental disorders (psychoses, autism), neurodegenerative disorders (dementias) and mental disorders co-morbid with diabetes mellitus, stigma alleviation, e-health and innovative interventions.
Step 3
Step 3
Host Mentorathon and Grantathon workshops focused on research design and proposal writing.
Step 4
Step 4
Guiding and mentoring trainees through the research process from IRB/Ethics Committee approval to manuscript publication.
Guide mentors in steering their mentoring teams.
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