TRAINING IN MATERNAL AND CHILD NUTRITION

项目总结/摘要 自34年前首次资助该培训项目以来， 营养（MCN）并没有消失，但关键的挑战继续存在，新的挑战 涌现因此，仍然迫切需要了解不仅如何预防营养不良， 育龄妇女和幼儿的问题，以及如何减轻这些问题的影响， 妇女及其子女的后期健康问题。该计划意义重大，因为， 从短期来看，它将填补MCN培训方面的一个主要空白，从长期来看，它将使受此培训的个人 该计划应填补生产和解释MCN综合研究的主要空白。我们提出 利用知名毕业生的资源培养4名（3名博士前和1名博士后）学员 康奈尔大学营养科学部的一个项目，这是致力于营养科学的最大学术单位之一。 对人类营养的贡献拟议的培训计划将由多个PD小组领导，该小组由以下人员组成： 康奈尔大学营养科学系的四名教员：拉斯穆森湖 Bellows，J. Finkelstein，and J. Hoddinott.项目监督将由外部顾问提供 以马克思学员将由14名培训师指导，他们有积极的研究计划， 模范的训练记录共同培训员在广泛的领域具有不同但互补的技能， 与MCN相关的学科以及在培训和 research.学员将完成由3门研究生课程组成的核心课程： 和儿童营养，赠款写作，以及翻译研究和循证政策与实践， 营养这些课程将由MCN研究的高度重视的每周会议补充 在负责任的研究行为和严谨性和研究的可重复性方面提供论坛和培训。使用 个人发展计划的沿着我们创新的年度合作项目将进一步 加强学员的职业发展和领导才能发展，以及他们面对挑战的应变能力。 改变研究环境。该司为拟议方案提供了优良的设施， 包括设备齐全的实验室、动物设施、门诊代谢室、临床化学室 实验室，并广泛支持统计计算。实习生还将可以访问共享的研究 设施遍布校园和学术中心和研究所，专注于从 从脊椎动物基因组学到食品和营养政策。作为拟议计划的结果，前和博士后 学员将能够识别MCN中最重要的问题，通过研究解决这些问题， 有效地将其研究成果转化为新的政策和适当的行动。

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT Since this training program was first funded 34y ago, the specific problems that confront maternal and child nutrition (MCN) have not gone away, but rather crucial challenges continue to exist and new ones have emerged. As a result, there remains a compelling need to understand not only how to prevent nutritional problems in women of childbearing age and young children but also how to mitigate the effects of these problems on the later health of both women and their children. The proposed program is significant because, in the short term, it will fill a major gap in training in MCN and, in the long term, individuals trained by this program should fill a major gap in producing and interpreting integrative research on MCN. We propose to train 4 (3 predoctoral and 1 postdoctoral) trainees by leveraging the resources of the renowned graduate program in the Division of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell University, one of the largest academic units devoted to human nutrition in the country. The proposed training program will be led by a multi-PD group composed of four faculty members in the Division of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell University: Drs K.M. Rasmussen, L. Bellows, J. Finkelstein, and J. Hoddinott. Program oversight will be provided by an External Advisory Committee. Trainees will be mentored by a total of 14 trainers, who have active research programs as well as an exemplary training record. The co-trainers have differing yet complementary skills in a wide range of disciplines related to MCN as well as a long history of collaboration with one another in both training and research. Trainees will complete a core curriculum consisting of 3 graduate-level courses: Topics in Maternal and Child Nutrition, Grant Writing, and Translational Research and Evidence-based Policy and Practice in Nutrition. These courses will be supplemented by the highly valued weekly meeting of the MCN Research Forum as well as training in the responsible conduct of research and rigor and reproducibility in research. Use of an Individual Development Plan along with our innovative Annual Collaborative Project will further enhance the trainees’ career and leadership development as well as their resilience in the face of a changing environment for research. Excellent facilities are available in the Division for the proposed program, including well-equipped laboratories, animal facilities, an outpatient metabolic unit, a clinical chemistry laboratory, and extensive support for statistical computing. Trainees will also have access to shared research facilities throughout the campus and academic centers and institutes that focus on subjects that range from vertebrate genomics to food and nutrition policy. As a result of the proposed program,pre- and postdoctoral trainees will be able to identify the most important problems in MCN, address them with their research, and effectively translate the results of their research into novel policies and appropriate actions.