INITIatE- International Collaboration to increase Traumatic Brain Injury Surveillance in Europe

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INITIatE- International Collaboration to increase Traumatic Brain Injury Surveillance in Europe

Since 2017, the Faculty of Medicine has been involved in the implementation of two international research projects funded by the National Institutes of Health – Fogarty International Trauma Training Program iCREATE: Increasing Capacity for Research in Eastern Europe (Coordinator – Prof. Corin Picasa) and INITIatE: International Collaboration to Increase Traumatic Brain Injury in Europe, both at the University of Iowa and the Cluj School of Public Health (Coordinator – prof. Diana Dalf). Professor Nino Chikhladze, TSU Faculty of Medicine, is coordinator of both projects in Georgia.

The duration of the project “INITIatE- International Collaboration to increase Traumatic Brain Injury Surveillance in Europe" is three years and the project aims to identify and describe the existing practice of traumatic brain injuries data collection and description, creation and development of traumatic brain injuries register and research the data on traumatic brain injury.

The students of the Master's and PhD Programme in Public Health of the Faculty of Medicine Participated in the implementation of the both research projects. The project considers the short term and long-term mobility of the Students of the Master’s Programme as well as PhD students and the academic staff for the purpose of conducting trainings at Iowa University and Babes-Bolía University, conducting joint researches and making joint publications.

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