Interdisciplinary Research Training Program for International Population Science

项目摘要 在过去的50年里，美国和西欧的数据创建投资刺激了 社会和行为科学的重大突破。创建大型人类科学研究 普通民众的行为和社会经验构成了这些投资的重要基石。 因为这些研究的数据对于公共政策的制定和评估非常重要， 计划，以改善人口的健康和福祉，NICHD高度重视科学的优先事项 研究教育工具，大大扩大了这些数据的科学使用。的主要局限性 迄今为止，这些研究教育工作只关注美国人口的数据。这大大 限制了测试关键发现的外部有效性的能力，这增加了即使在美国国内， 任何特定研究人群的人群调查结果可能不适用于重要的亚人群。研究 来自生活在与美国截然不同的环境中的人群的数据资源教育， 西欧迫切需要这样的社会和行为科学家可以快速，方便地测试 关键发现的外部有效性的广度，以及促进对这些不同人群的理解。 我们将利用NICHD对尼泊尔奇旺谷家庭研究（CVFS）的长期投资， 实现这一高度优先目标。我们将实施一系列教育、研究工具建设， 继续教育活动，旨在大大提高国际教育的质量和数量， 人口科学CVFS是一个优秀的国际人口科学培训资源， 24-这是一项为期一年的全家庭小组研究，具有许多重要特征。这些措施包括： 儿童健康、避孕药具使用、心理健康和社区背景，包括DNA和移民访谈 所有家庭成员。我们将利用这一特殊资源推出一个新的多媒体教育计划 关注国际人口科学。该计划将采用一套综合的专题短期课程， 基于网络的访问这些课程，教育的高度优先纵向研究工具，创新的“总是 可用的”学习工具和存档教程。国际人口研究的重要性继续存在 随着人口之间相互联系的增加而增长。移民、商业、数字媒体使用的动态， 和暴力冲突都增加了对人口动态进行彻底科学了解的必要性， 离开设置。我们的计划将提供国际人口研究技能的培训， 研究的质量和数量。这些工具可以应用于推进科学，使用重复的横截面 调查、监测数据、纵向小组研究或随机对照试验研究。我们的教育计划 将以NICHD人口动态分支（PDB）的最高科学优先事项为特色： 研究避孕药具的使用和不使用、整个生命过程中的健康以及遗传因素的作用。

PROJECT SUMMARY Across the past five decades, data creation investments in the U.S. and Western Europe have spurred dramatic breakthroughs in the social and behavioral sciences. The creation of large scientific studies of human behavior and social experience in the general population form a crucial cornerstone of these investments. Because the data from these studies are so important for the construction and evaluation of public policies and programs to improve the health and wellbeing of the population, NICHD places a high scientific priority on research educational tools that significantly expand the scientific use of such data. The primary limitation of these research education efforts thus far is an exclusive focus on data from the U.S. population. This greatly restricts the ability to test the external validity of key findings, raising the possibility that even within the U.S. population findings from any particular study population may not apply to important sub-populations. Research education on data resources from populations living under circumstances quite different from the U.S. and Western Europe are urgently needed so that social and behavioral scientists can quickly and easily test the breadth of external validity of key findings as well as to advance understanding of these different populations. We will leverage NICHD's long-term investment in the Chitwan Valley Family Study (CVFS) in Nepal to achieve this high priority objective. We will implement a series of educational, research tool construction, and continuing education activities designed to significantly increase the quality and quantity of international population science. The CVFS is an excellent international population science training resource, featuring a 24-year whole-family panel study with many important characteristics. These include dynamic measures of child health, contraceptive use, mental health, and community context with both DNA and migrant interviews for all family members. We will use this special resource to launch a new multimedia educational program focused on international population science. The program will feature an integrated set of topical short courses, web-based access to those courses, education on high priority longitudinal research tools, innovative “always available” learning tools, and archived tutorials. The importance of international population research continues to grow as interconnections across populations increase. Dynamics of migration, commerce, digital media use, and violent conflict all increase the need for thorough scientific understanding of population dynamics in far- away settings. Our program will supply training in international population research skills to enable higher quality and quantity of research. The tools can be applied to advance science using repeated cross-sectional surveys, surveillance data, longitudinal panel studies, or random control trial studies. Our educational program will feature illustrations with the NICHD Population Dynamics Branch's (PDB) highest scientific priorities: studying contraceptive use and non-use, health across the life course, and the role of genetic factors.