Project Overview

The CHILD Global Research Fellowship aims to train early career researchers from Uganda, a Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) country with one of the highest HIV/AIDS rates and poor mental health service. Training goals include:

• Identify and train scientists from Uganda who will be capable of serving as a Principal Investigators (PIs) on extramurally funded intervention studies focused on combination HIV prevention addressing persistent poverty, community violence, co-occurring child and adolescent mental health problems, and HIV care and prevention in HIV-impacted communities.
• Bring together a network of committed mentors from the global north and the global south to ensure quality training for promising new investigators from Uganda who would focus their research on culturally-congruent interventions addressing HIV/AIDS with an emphasis on co-existing CAMH and combination interventions with potential implications for LMICs, including SSA.
• Delineate key factors that underlie successful mentorship and training of new investigators from Uganda – with potential implications for new investigators from other SSA countries – who are focused on CAMH and HIV-prevention interventions in LMICs, including SSA.