Training in the Demography and Economics of Aging

项目摘要/摘要 人口研究中心(PSC)要求将其博士前和博士后培训延长五年 人口统计学和老龄化经济学项目，自1992年以来由NIA资助，以建立在 培养创新、道德和多产的研究人员，包括那些来自代表性不足的背景的研究人员 在这些学科中。博士前实习生来自密歇根州排名靠前的博士生项目 社会学、经济学、公共卫生和公共政策。他们将结合博士学位的具体要求 他们的学科有额外的人口学专门培训，通过正规的 课程作业、非正式研讨会和以PSC的Rich为基础的研究学徒计划 跨学科环境。博士后学者是来自不同社会和健康领域的研究人员 科学谁受益于集中暴露在人口和经济老龄化的方法。多数 博士后实习生从其他大学招聘，并受益于与新导师的匹配， 参加一系列实质性、方法性和专业化研讨会，并进行协作 研究机会。受训人员在一些最核心的数据收集方面接受调查人员的指导 老龄化项目，如健康和退休研究和收入动态小组研究，项目 它将生命过程中健康恶化的生物指标与捕捉社会和 按种族、民族、性别和社会经济群体区分老龄化的经济决定因素。我们的目标是 培养下一代健康科学家，以便在职业生涯中整合来自 经济学、公共卫生、公共政策和社会学，以收集和分析需要解决的数据 美国人口老龄化的紧迫挑战。该项目将由萨拉·伯加德博士共同领导，她是 PSC和NIA资助的社会学家和流行病学家专注于社会经济的社会决定因素， 在晚年生活中的性别和种族/民族健康差异，和Paula Fomby博士，既定的副主任和 自2017年起担任PSC培训主任，NIH资助的家庭人口学家。MPI由 经济学/公共政策领域协调员培训委员会(杨迪安博士)，健康行为和 健康教育(Arline Geronimus博士)和社会学/公共政策(Jeff Morenoff博士，前PSC中心 所长)全职教授和经验丰富的导师。学员将接受来自不同培训机构的指导 这些和相关的学科部门，研究人员有充足的资金和良好的记录 指导和安排受训人员担任学术和政府研究领域的重要职位。该计划将是 由PSC管理，PSC是美国最古老的人口中心之一，有60年的杰出历史 国内和国际人口研究和培训记录，人口统计和培训领域的领导者 老龄化经济学。

Project Summary/Abstract The Population Studies Center (PSC) requests a five-year renewal of its predoctoral and postdoctoral training program in the demography and economics of aging, funded by NIA since 1992, to build on a strong record of producing innovative, ethical, and productive researchers, including those from backgrounds underrepresented in these disciplines. Predoctoral trainees are drawn from Michigan's highly ranked doctoral programs in sociology, economics, public health, and public policy. They will combine the specific doctoral requirements of their disciplines with additional specialized training in demography through a combination of formal coursework, informal seminars, and a research apprenticeship program grounded in PSC's rich interdisciplinary environment. Postdoctoral scholars are researchers from a variety of social and health sciences who benefit from focused exposure to demographic and economic approaches to aging. Most postdoctoral trainees are recruited from other universities, and benefit from matches with a new mentors, participation in a range of substantive, methodological, and professionalization seminars, and collaborative research opportunities. Trainees are mentored by investigators on some of the most central data collection projects in aging, such as the Health and Retirement Study and the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, projects that integrate biological indicators of health deterioration over the life course with data capturing the social and economic determinants of differential aging by racial, ethnic, gender and socioeconomic groups. Our goal is to cultivate the next generation of health scientists for careers spent integrating knowledge, theory, and tools from economics, public health, public policy, and sociology to collect and analyze the data needed to address pressing challenges of an aging U.S. population. The program will be co-led by Dr. Sarah Burgard, director of the PSC and NIA-funded sociologist and epidemiologist focused on the social determinants of socioeconomic, gender and racial/ethnic health disparities in later life, and Dr. Paula Fomby, established associate director and training director of the PSC since 2017, and NIH-funded family demographer. The MPIs are supported by a training committee of field coordinators from Economics/Public Policy (Dr. Dean Yang), Health Behavior and Health Education (Dr. Arline Geronimus) and Sociology/Public Policy (Dr. Jeff Morenoff, former PSC Center Director) all full professors and experienced mentors. Trainees will be mentored by diverse training faculty from these and related disciplinary departments, researchers with well-funded projects and a strong record of mentoring and placing trainees in leading academic and governmental research positions. The program will be stewarded by the PSC, one of the oldest population centers in the United States, with a distinguished 60-year record of domestic and international population research and training, and a leader in the demography and economics of aging.