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

标题：从生物过程到社会过程：生命过程研究中的跨学科训练 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， 社会经济地位、种族/民族和性别在衡量健康和幸福的关键指标方面存在惊人的差距 强调我们必须解决导致以下问题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，科学范式和 研究方法需要更全面地纳入复杂的因素星座，从根本上 从出生到成年都会影响健康和幸福。出于这些原因，新颖的综合研究， 从细胞到社会，需要更好地解决导致持久健康的社会和生物因素 不平等，并导致美国社会整体健康水平相对较差。是次续期申请 生命历程研究中的跨学科培训(ITLCR)计划建议继续创新和 激动人心的博士后和博士后培训计划正在产生，并将继续产生很高的效果 受过训练的跨学科受训人员，从社会科学或健康科学进入，并 接受培训，在这些领域开展综合工作，以解决该国一些最紧迫的卫生问题 有问题。具体地说，我们的计划从社会科学和健康科学领域招募有前途的实习生，并 重点关注五个关键目标。首先，我们的学员在国外的空白学习领域获得了大量的专业知识 他们自己的纪律。其次，我们的学员沉浸在跨学科的互动、交流和 扩大他们的科学能力的经验。第三，我们的实习生向领先的专家学习如何 在最高层面开展生物/健康-社会人口健康综合研究。第四，我们的实习生 他们拥有一流的结构和文化，能够在最高水平上进行自己的综合研究。 第五，我们的受训人员在进行综合研究方面得到了最佳实践的指导， 牢记道德标准。我们的学员将成长为富有创造力和灵活性的科学家，他们能够发展 新的研究途径，创建跨学科产生的创新统一框架 边界。具体地说，我们寻求继续支持7名博士前实习生(在健康状况下 和社会科学)和两名博士后实习生(社会科学和卫生科学各一名) ITLCR。自2017年我们的计划开始以来，我们的实习生工作效率非常高；我们还建立了 一个非常多样化的培训计划。在项目总监和他们的交叉部门的大力指导下- 纪律导师，ITLCR学员将继续制定个人定制的培训计划， 社会科学或健康科学，计划根据先前的学科培训和每个受训人员的 研究兴趣。总之，ITLCR正在培养初级科学家，他们正在进行尖端的综合 社会科学和卫生科学人口研究以及谁将是未来的领导者谁将使用这些新的 在美国和其他地方改善人类健康和福祉的方法。

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.