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Research components of the Brown Kenya Program: a personal and professional perspective.

Year: 2013

Type: article

Abstract: It generates and addresses hypotheses, informs programs and provides data that can be translated to care. Research is not trivial or easy. It is time consuming, requires much planning, mandates a detail-oriented approach, involves availability of, or time and capability to create infrastructure, includes access to relevant resources and facilities and mandates complete and full dedication of experienced and motivated personnel. The Academic Model Providing Access to Healthcare (AMPATH) in western Kenya leads with care. It has provided clinical services to >130,000 of the country’s 1.6 million HIV-infected people, reducing morbidity, mortality and the very high burden of this pandemic on the country (http:// www.unaids.org). The Brown Kenya Program also leads with care. The medical exchange program of students, residents, post-doctoral fellows and faculty is the mainstay of the program. Both programs are intertwined with research. In this paper I discuss the conduction of research in the Brown program with the support of the AMPATH infrastructure, from a programmatic as well as from a personal perspective.

Source: PubMed

Author: Rami Kantor

Institution: Brown University

Language: English

Topic: Global Health and Surgery

Subfield: Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

Funders: National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Awards: HIV-1 Drug Resistance in Different Subtypes, Providence/Boston Center for AIDS Research (CFAR)