Programa global de entrenamiento en salud: una oportunidad para abrir la mente

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I belong to the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) International Infectious Disease and Global Health Training Program (IID & GHTP). These are the program’s objectives (taken from: http://www.iidandghtp.com/iidghtp_program_objectives.html): 1) to equip trainees with the research, scientific knowledge, and skills to become outstanding researchers in infectious diseases and global health; 2) to create a novel and stimulating multidisciplinary and truly international research training environment that fosters creativity, opportunity, and innovation, and one that demands excellence; 3) to harness the unique opportunity offered by the critical mass of infectious diseases and global health infrastructure, research opportunities and outstanding scientists in the training of the next generation of infectious disease researchers; 4) to make available collaborative international research sites for the trainees’ primary research projects, sites for research practica and major course offerings; 5) to offer a shared learning environment, where trainees and mentors from all four of CIHR’s research pillars (clinical, social, basic, and epidemiology) and the four international training sites (Canada, Colombia, India, and Kenya) work cooperatively to explore issues of international infectious diseases and global health.