# Middle East and North Africa Program forAdvanced Injury Research Training (MENA PAIR).

> **NIH NIH D43** · YALE UNIVERSITY · 2023 · $149,240

## Abstract

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.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10874912
- **Project number:** 3D43TW012202-02S1
- **Recipient organization:** YALE UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** Samar Al-Hajj
- **Activity code:** D43 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2023
- **Award amount:** $149,240
- **Award type:** 3
- **Project period:** 2021-09-17 → 2026-10-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10874912

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10874912, Middle East and North Africa Program forAdvanced Injury Research Training (MENA PAIR). (3D43TW012202-02S1). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-27 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10874912. Licensed CC0.

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