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.

标题：从生物学到社会过程：生活课程跨学科培训 与我们的高收入同龄人相比，美国人口的总体健康状况差 通过社会经济地位，种族/种族和性别，关键的健康和福祉的差距达到惊人的差距 在整个生活过程中，我们必须解决导致的因素和机制的紧迫性 健康状况不佳。同时，科学范式和 研究方法需要更充分地整合复杂的因素，从根本上讲 影响从出生到成年的健康和福祉。由于这些原因，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学因素 美国社会的不平等和导致总体健康水平相对较差。这种更新的应用 生命课程研究（ITLCR）计划的跨学科培训建议继续创新和 令人兴奋的观念和博士后培训计划，该计划正在生产，并将继续产生高度的生产 训练有素的跨学科学员，他们从社会科学或健康科学中进入 经过培训，可以在这些领域进行综合工作，以解决该国一些最紧迫的健康 问题。具体而言，我们的计划报告了社会和健康科学的有希望的培训， 专注于五个关键目标。首先，我们在 他们自己的学科。其次，我们的学员沉浸在跨学科的互动中，交流和 经验扩大了他们的科学水平。第三，我们的培训向主要专家学习如何 在最高水平进行综合的生物/健康社会人群健康研究。第四，我们的学员 提供了一流的结构和文化，以最高水平进行自己的综合研究。 第五，我们的学员接受了最佳实践的指导 考虑道德标准。我们的学员发展成为能够发展的创造性和灵活的科学家 新的研究途径并创建跨越学科而产生的创新统一框架 边界。特别是，我们寻求持续支持七名博士前学员（在健康之间分配 和社会科学）和两名博士后学员（一名来自每个社会和健康科学） itlcr。自从我们的计划始于2017年以来，我们的学员一直在生产力极高。我们也建立了 一个非常多样化的培训计划。在计划董事及其交叉的大量指导下 纪律导师，ITLCR受训人员将继续制定单独量身定制的培训计划 社会科学或健康科学，针对先前的纪律培训和每个学员的计划量身定制的计划 研究兴趣。总的来说，ITLCR正在创建初级科学家 社会和健康科学人口研究，谁将成为未来的领导者，他们将使用这些新的 改善美国及以后的人类健康和福祉的方法。