Higginbotham N
INCLEN Social Science Committee, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, NSW, Australia.
Acta Trop. 1994 Aug;57(2-3):123-37. doi: 10.1016/0001-706x(94)90003-5.
This paper describes the unfolding of two complementary efforts to build global capacity in health social science. The INCLEN model aims to infuse a genuine transdisciplinary perspective into international health through equipping social scientists to speak a common language with clinical epidemiologists and sensitising clinicians to the ways social sciences contribute to research and policy. Issues are raised pertinent to the model's viability, including recruitment of scholars for fellowships, curriculum substance, and mechanisms for integrating social science fellows when they return home. The future success of the INCLEN program, and comparable donor initiatives, depends upon a wider infrastructure of career supports played out at the international level in which donor and operating agencies nourish the emergence of an expanded body of health social scientists. The International Forum for Social Sciences in Health (IFSSH) has been formed to help build this infrastructure and provide impetus for a viable scientific community of health social scientists. The IFSSH 'global agenda' is portrayed and an illustration is given of how this agenda is being implemented in the Asia and Pacific region.
本文描述了为建设全球卫生社会科学能力而开展的两项互补性工作的进展情况。国际临床流行病学网络（INCLEN）模式旨在通过使社会科学家能够与临床流行病学家使用共同语言，并使临床医生认识到社会科学对研究和政策的贡献方式，将真正的跨学科视角融入国际卫生领域。文中提出了与该模式可行性相关的问题，包括研究员的招募、课程内容以及社会科学研究员回国后的整合机制。INCLEN项目以及类似的捐助方倡议的未来成功，取决于在国际层面建立更广泛的职业支持基础设施，捐助方和运营机构在其中助力更多卫生社会科学家群体的出现。国际卫生社会科学论坛（IFSSH）已成立，以帮助构建这一基础设施，并为一个可行的卫生社会科学家科学界提供动力。文中描述了IFSSH的“全球议程”，并举例说明了该议程在亚太地区的实施情况。
