Impact of using a broad-based multi-institutional approach to build capacity for non-communicable disease research in Thailand.

ABSTRACT: Thailand's transition to high middle-income country status has been accompanied by demographic changes and associated shifts in the nation's public health challenges. These changes have necessitated a significant shift in public health focus from the treatment of infectious diseases to the more expensive and protracted management of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in older adults.In 2010, in response to this shift in focus, the University of Michigan and colleagues at the Praboromarajchanok Institute for Health Workforce Development in Thailand began work on a broad-based multi-institutional programme for NCD research capacity-building in Thailand.To begin to build a base of intervention research we paired our programme's funded Thai postdoctoral fellows with United States mentors who hav

SUBMITTER: Potempa K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6570856 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature