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Kathryn M. Yount,kyount@emory.edu
KY: conceptualization, methodology, resources, investigation, writing—original draft, writing—review and editing, visualization, supervision, project administration, funding acquisition. SB: writing—original draft, writing—review and editing, visualization, methodology. DC and JS: writing—original draft, writing—review and editing, methodology, project administration. HV: funding acquisition, project administration, supervision, writing—original draft, writing—review and editing. AK: writing—original draft, methodology (of journal club), project administration. HN, IB, DP, MS, and AS: writing—original draft, writing—review and editing. All authors contributed to the article and approved the submitted version.
The authors thank Mohammed Ali for guidance on the original proposal submission. The authors also thank Le Minh Giang (MPI) for comments on the protocol manuscript. The authors thank further the following individuals at Emory University for their generous letters of support: James Curran, former Dean of the Rollins School of Public Health; Linda McCauley, Dean of the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing; Vikas Sukhatme, Dean of the School of Medicine; Jonathan Lewin, former Executive Vice President for Health Affairs; Jonathan Rupp, Director of the Injury Prevention Research Center; Jeffrey Lesser, Director of the Halle Institute for Global Research; and Parminder Suchdev, former Associate Director of the Emory Global Health Institute. The authors also thank the following individuals at Georgia State University (GSU) for their support of this initiative and of participating GSU faculty: Rodney Lyn, Dean of the School of Public Health, and Sara Rosen, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, for their support of this initiative and specifically of faculty at Georgia State University. Letters of support from university leadership in Vietnam also are valued: PHAM Van Manh, Vice Rector of Haiphong University of Medicine and Pharmacy (UMP); Nguyen Hoang BAC, Vice President of the Ho Chi Minh City UMP; Doan Quoc Hung, Vice Rector of Hanoi Medical University; and Nguyen Minh Tam, Vice Rector of Hue UMP. The authors also thank the following individuals for their willingness to serve on the CONVERGE Technical Advisory Committee: James Mercy, Director, Division of Violence Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Heidi Stöckl, Professor at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich; and Ighoverha Ofotokun, Professor of Medicine, Emory University. The authors also thank all of the program faculty at Emory University, Georgia State University, the CDC, international Centers of Excellence for violence prevention research, and partner institutions in Vietnam who have offered to serve as training faculty, research mentors, and resources to our CONVERGE fellows. Finally, we thank Suha Khan, Maria Sullivan, Yvette Higgins-Sparks, Denise Catbay, Meghan Macaulay, Emily Chuba, and Robert Durr for administrative assistance at Emory University and Pham Phuong Mai for administrative assistance on the sub-award to Hanoi Medical University.
The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.
This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health, Fogarty International Center International, training grant number D43TW012188 (PI KY; MPI Giang). Provided monetary support for the CONVERGE training program’s implementation, completion, and evaluation.
© 2023 Yount, Comeau, Blake, Sales, Sacks, Nicol, Bergenfeld, Kalokhe, Stein, Whitaker, Parrott and Van.