The TRECK Program Supplement: Trauma REsearch Capacity Building in Kilimanjaro, Tanzania Program Plan Supplement

Project Summary/Abstract Every year, nearly 5 million people die from injuries and hundreds of millions more sustain non- fatal injuries that require medical attention within low and middle income countries (LMICs), accounting for 90% of all injury-related deaths. Reducing the burden of injury requires a quality

trauma care system; these systems are poor with limited services in LMICs like Tanzania. Optimizing care at each step along this continuum requires implementation research strategies and a network of like-minded, invested stakeholders. This training program will train postdoctoral research fellows and KCMUCo faculty members on Implementation Science (IS) methods to

address the current need for expertise in the region. This supplement will build on our parent D43 TRECK training program, which identified the current gap in IS capacity at Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center University College (KCMUCo). Moreover, this supplement will build on Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center and Duke University’s long-standing collaborations for capacity building

(MEPI/HEPI, D43s) and injury research (R21 and R01) level projects. The goals of this proposal are two-fold 1) to strengthen KCMUCo IS expertise through the training and mentoring of Tanzanian TRECK fellows and 2) to collaboratively redesign the KCMUCo Epidemiology and Applied Biostatistics research practicum at KCMUCo to include IS tenets, and train KCMUCo

faculty on IS core concepts.