7. Project Summary / Abstract: Despite the public health threat posed by trauma and injury in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs) generally and in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) in particular, there remains a large unmet need for high-quality injury research in the region. The causes for this research gap are multifactorial but a major component is a lack of trained researchers who can develop new lines of inquiry and have the skills to mentor others to create teams of qualified injury researchers in the MENA region. The D43 parent award Yale-AUB Middle East & North Africa Program for Advanced Injury Research (MENA PAIR) targets mutliple levels in the injury ecosystem including: PhD level training to create leaders in injury research; Masters level training to develop professionals to implement injury research and policy programs; Diploma training for clinicians to augment research skills to conduct injury research; and workshop training in topics that target critical stakeholders in the broader injury ecosystem involved in injury prevention and documentation (e.g., traffic police, school nurses, sports coaches, caregivers). This supplement will augment and broaden the scope of parent award Aims 1 & 2 by [AIM1] targeting a new level of trainee (junior faculty) for advanced research skills development to help them more quickly become independent injury researchers; [AIM2] to provide faculty level career development and research leadership training to develop injury research programs and lead teams of future injury researchers being developed in our program; and [AIM3] improve diversity of clinical research and research teams by supporting a female junior faculty member in trauma and injury research training.