Output from the CIHR Canadian HIV Trials Network international postdoctoral fellowship for capacity building in HIV clinical trials

Figures & data

Table 1 Topics covered by CTN international fellows

Year	International Postdoctoral fellow	Country	Research topic	Canadian supervisor(s)	Local supervisor(s)
2010–2011	Lawrence Mbuagbaw	Cameroon	Mobile phone text messages to improve adherence to antiretroviral therapy in low-income resource settings	Lehana Thabane	Pierre Ongolo Zogo
2011–2012	Frederick Morfaw	Cameroon	Male partner participation in prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV	Lehana Thabane	Philip Nana
2011–2012	John Kunda	Zambia	Community-based models of nonignorable missing data for RCTs	Lehana Thabane	Anne Cockcroft Neil Andersson
2012–2013	Jackson Mukonzo	Uganda	Optimizing efavirenz HIV treatment outcomes among Africans	Colin Ross	Nelson Sewankambo
2013–2014	Amy Slogrove	South Africa	South African HIV-exposed uninfected infants: does in utero HIV exposure contribute to increased infectious morbidity?	Joel Singer	Mark Cotton
2014–2015	Wei Cao	China	Evaluation of immunological impact from early ART initiation in patients participating in the primary HIV infection study	Jean-Pierre Routy	Taisheng Li
2015–2016	Gisele Ngomba	Lesotho	Evaluation of adherence to ART in HIV-positive pregnant women in a low-resource setting	Lehana Thabane Lawrence Mbuagbaw	Kyaw Thin
2016–2017	Moleen Zunza	South Africa	Feasibility and effects on interactive weekly mobile phone text messaging versus usual care in promoting and sustaining continued breastfeeding by HIV-infected women in South Africa: a pilot RCT	Lehana Thabane	Mark Cotton Taryn Young

Abbreviations: ART, antiretroviral therapy; CTN, Canadian HIV Trial Network; HIV, human immunodeficiency virus; RCTs, randomized controlled trials.

Table 2 Number of publications for CTN's international postdoctoral fellows who have completed their fellowship (n=6)

Category	Median (q1, q3)	Minimum, maximum
Total number of publications per fellow	13.0 (7, 30)	0, 73
Number during fellowship per fellow	7 (5, 9)	0, 13
Number related to fellowship/fellowa	2 (1, 5)	0, 10
Number of fellows as the lead or senior author/fellow	2 (1, 4)	0, 5

Notes:

a On the research topic for which funding was provided by the CTN. ql: first quartile; q3: third quartile.

Abbreviation: CTN, Canadian HIV Trial Network.

Figure 1 Network of coauthorship between CTN's international postdoctoral fellows and their local and Canadian supervisors.

Abbreviation: CTN, Canadian HIV Trial Network.

Table 3 List of awards secured by postdoctoral fellows

Name of the award	Year	CAD
1. Ontario Trillium Scholarship Competition	2011–2014	120,000a
2. Fergus Mills Scholarship	2011–2012	1,000
3. CIHR Canada-Hope Scholarship Program	2011	174,000
4. The Dave Sackett Graduate Scholarship	2013	5,000
5. IDRC Doctoral Research Award	2013	14,000
6. South African National Health Scholarship	2014–2015	75,000b
7. CIPHER Global Cohort Collaboration postdoctoral fellowship	2015	37,000
8. CIPHER	2016–2017	164,303
9. AIDS 2016 Conference Registration Scholarship	2016	235
10. SIDA	2016–2020	708,857
11. US Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs – Senior Researcher Scholarship	2014	2,626c

Notes:

a For 3 years.

b For 18 months.

c For 3 months.

Abbreviations: AIDS, acquired immuno deficiency syndrome; CAD, Canadian dollars; CIHR, Canadian Institutes for Health Research; CIPHER, Collaborative Initiative for Paediatric HIV Education and Research; HIV, human immunodeficiency virus; IDRC, International Development Research Centre; SIDA, Swedish International Development Agency.