About CITAR
The Center for International Training and Research (CITAR) is a program for advanced international training in HIV prevention research, located in The University of Texas School of Public Health in Houston, Texas, USA.
CITAR Fellows are outstanding foreign health professionals training for research careers in public health in their home countries on HIV and HIV related issues. CITAR provides a framework to assist them in this training.
Thus, the goals of CITAR are to foster research and research capacity in developing countries, and to promote understanding and cooperation between the United States and other countries.
To meet these goals, CITAR has identified 6 key elements in the training experience:
- Faculty supervision;
- Didactic academic courses;
- Weekly seminars;
- Practica;
- Course on practical issues of international research;
- Close mentoring.
