From Biological to Social Processes: Interdisciplinary Training in Life Course Research

从生物过程到社会过程：生命历程研究的跨学科培训

• 批准号: 10410189
• 负责人: ROBERT A HUMMER
• 金额: $ 48.12万
• 依托单位: UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-08-21 至 2027-04-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10410189
• 关键词: Biological; Life Cycle Stages; Research; Social Processes; Training

Title: From Biological to Social Processes: Interdisciplinary Training in Life Course Research The poor overall health status of the US population in comparison with our high-income peers and the staggering gaps in key measures of health and well-being by socioeconomic status, race/ethnicity, and gender across the life course highlight the urgency at which we must address the factors and mechanisms that lead to poor health outcomes. At the same time, it has become ever more apparent that scientific paradigms and research approaches need to more fully incorporate the complex constellation of factors that fundamentally influence health and well-being from birth through adulthood. For these reasons, novel integrative research, from cells to society, is needed to better address the social and biological factors that cause persistent health inequalities and result in relatively poor overall levels of health in US society. This renewal application of the Interdisciplinary Training in Life Course Research (ITLCR) program proposes continuation of an innovative and exciting predoctoral and postdoctoral training program that is producing and will continue to produce highly trained interdisciplinary trainees who enter from either the social sciences or health sciences and who are trained to conduct integrative work across these areas to address some of the country’s most pressing health problems. Specifically, our program recruits promising trainees from both the social and health sciences and focuses on five critical objectives. First, our trainees gain substantial expertise in a gap area of study outside of their own discipline. Second, our trainees are immersed into interdisciplinary interactions, exchanges, and experiences that broaden their scientific proficiency. Third, our trainees learn from leading experts on how to conduct integrated biological/health-social population health research at the highest level. Fourth, our trainees are provided with a first-rate structure and culture to produce their own integrative research at the highest level. And fifth, our trainees are instructed on best practices in conducting integrated research with the highest ethical standards in mind. Our trainees develop into creative and flexible scientists who are able to develop new research pathways and create the innovative unifying frameworks that arise from crossing disciplinary boundaries. Specifically, we seek continued support for seven pre-doctoral trainees (split between the health and social sciences) and two post-doctoral trainees (one from each of the social and health sciences) for the ITLCR. Since our program began in 2017, our trainees have been exceptionally productive; we have also built a very diverse training program. With substantial guidance from the program directors and their cross- disciplinary mentors, ITLCR trainees will continue to develop individually tailored training plans in either the social sciences or health sciences, with the plan tailored to prior disciplinary training and to each trainee’s research interests. In all, the ITLCR is creating junior scientists who are conducting cutting edge integrative social and health sciences population research and who will be future leaders who will use these new approaches to improve human health and well-being in the US and beyond.

从生物学到社会过程：生命历程研究中的跨学科培训 与我们的高收入同龄人相比，美国人口的整体健康状况较差， 按社会经济地位、种族/民族和性别分列的健康和福祉关键指标存在惊人差距 在整个生命过程中，强调我们必须解决导致死亡的因素和机制的紧迫性。 健康状况不佳。与此同时，越来越明显的是， 研究方法需要更充分地纳入复杂的因素， 影响从出生到成年的健康和福祉。基于这些原因，新颖的综合研究， 从细胞到社会，需要更好地解决导致持续健康的社会和生物因素， 不平等，导致美国社会整体健康水平相对较差。本续期申请 生命历程研究跨学科培训（ITLCR）计划提出了一个创新的， 令人兴奋的博士前和博士后培训计划，正在生产，并将继续生产高度 受过培训的跨学科学员，他们来自社会科学或健康科学， 经过培训，在这些领域开展综合工作，以解决该国一些最紧迫的健康问题。 问题具体来说，我们的计划招募有前途的学员从社会和健康科学， 聚焦五个关键目标。首先，我们的学员在学习的差距领域获得了大量的专业知识， 自己的纪律。第二，我们的学员沉浸在跨学科的互动，交流， 这些经验扩大了他们的科学能力。第三，我们的学员从领先的专家那里学习如何 在最高一级开展生物/卫生-社会综合人口健康研究。第四，我们的学员 提供了一流的结构和文化，以产生自己的综合研究的最高水平。 第五，我们的学员被教导在进行综合研究的最佳实践与最高 道德标准在心中。我们的学员发展成为具有创造力和灵活性的科学家，他们能够开发 新的研究途径，并创建跨学科产生的创新统一框架 边界具体而言，我们寻求继续支持7名博士前学员（分为健康 和两名博士后受训人员（社会科学和卫生科学各一名）， ITLCR。自2017年项目开始以来，我们的学员一直非常富有成效;我们还建立了 非常多样化的培训计划。在节目主持人和他们的交叉指导下， 学科导师，ITLCR学员将继续制定个性化的培训计划，无论是在 社会科学或健康科学，该计划针对先前的学科培训和每个受训者的 研究兴趣。总之，ITLCR正在培养年轻的科学家，他们正在进行尖端的综合研究。 社会和健康科学人口研究以及谁将成为未来的领导者，谁将利用这些新的 改善美国及其他地区人类健康和福祉的方法。