The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health/Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia
Country:
Peru
Award Date:
2001
Award Amount:
$99,998.00
Cost Share:
$90,001.00
Other Partners:
U.S. Naval Medical Research Center Detachment in Peru
This partnership is increasing the capacity of health professionals in Peru in HIV/AIDS prevention and control by training them in new biostatistical and epidemiological methods. Through the partnership, a modern, cost-effective statistical software package, Stata, has been instituted as the analytical tool favored by Peru’s epidemiologists. The Peruvian National Institutes of Health (NIH) will purchase Stata in bulk quantities and receive training in 2004. The partners are continuing to develop a 32-credit, two-semester certificate program in epidemiology-biostatistics quantitative methods, the only one of its kind in South America. To date, the partnership has trained approximately 315 Peruvian nationals in statistical software, biostatistics, geospatial statistics, and grant writing. Additional biostatistics courses will soon be taught at the Peruvian NIH and at the Ministry of Health’s Epidemiology Office. Partnership activities have created synergies with programs under other grants awarded to Johns Hopkins, totalling over $21 million.