The Colorado Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women's Health Program

项目摘要 此应用程序是为科罗拉多建设跨学科研究职业生涯的第四轮资助， 2007年设立的妇女健康研究K12方案。在过去的15年里， 该计划的21名学者，其中18人留在学术医学和资助。总的来说， 这些学者自参加BIRCWH项目以来，已经发表了550多篇出版物（不包括 摘要）。对于我们提议的第四个周期，我们将继续与我们的学者和他们精心挑选的 科罗拉多大学安舒茨医学院丰富的学术环境中的主要导师。 我们将帮助他们组建创新的跨学科科学咨询委员会（SAC）。学者和他们的 整个SAC以及BIRCWH领导层将每年召开两次会议，并使用 循证课程侧重于发展学术和职业发展技能。此外，本发明还提供了一种方法， 从我们之前3个BIRCWH周期的经验中学习，除了我们成功的持续方法外， 我们提出了几个关键的方案创新： 以证据为基础的课程现在还将包括如何将性和性别纳入所有教育的重点。 从研究设计到分析的研究步骤。 o鼓励学者们在研究过程中相对较早地开始研究他们的个人K奖。 他们作为BIRCWH学者的任期（即，8-9在最初的BIRCWH学者任命后几个月）， 导师/SAC/BIRCWH领导支持。 o在完成BIRCWH奖学金后，BIRCWH奖学金获得者与其SAC的持续互动 在此期间（通过下一个学术步骤），以扩大指导，同时也努力建立独立性。 o增加生物信息学，作为一种尖端、跨领域的工具，将有助于交织我们的重点。 增加生物统计学家的可用性，以满足学者的复杂统计需求。 o增加一名BIRCWH促进者，劳拉·布朗博士，一位成功的前BIRCWH学者，将在 通过专注于研究和职业发展问题，包括帮助他们在他们的工作， 下一个赠款-赠款，将帮助他们成功过渡到他们的后BIRCWH职业生涯。 o大力关注增加我们的BIRCWH学者的多样性。 我们的总体目标是：支持来自多元化的优秀申请人， 个人，并为他们提供一个适当的定制，高质量的跨学科指导研究和 职业发展经验。为科罗拉多州BIRCWH提供了出色的机构支持， 关注妇女健康，也将推动这一重要方案的发展， 独立的跨学科科学家在妇女的健康和性别差异的研究，从而提高 妇女的健康。

Project Summary This application is for the 4th cycle of funding for the Colorado Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women’s Health Research (BIRCWH) K12 program, established in 2007. Over the past 15 years, we have had 21 Scholars in the program, 18 of whom have remained in academic medicine and are funded. Collectively, these Scholars have published over 550 publications since their time in the BIRCWH program (not including abstracts). For our proposed 4th cycle, we will continue to work with our Scholars and their carefully chosen primary mentors in the rich academic environment of the University of Colorado-Anschutz Medical Campus. We will help them form innovative interdisciplinary Scientific Advisory Committees (SACs). Scholars and their entire SACs as well as BIRCWH leadership will meet twice yearly and participate in monthly trainings using an evidence-based curriculum focused on developing academic and career development skills. In addition, learning from our experience in 3 prior cycles of BIRCWH and in addition to our successful ongoing methods, we propose several key program innovations: o The evidence-based curriculum now will also include focus on how to integrate sex and gender into all steps of research from study design to analysis. o Encouraging Scholars to begin working on their individual K award relatively early in the course of their tenure as a BIRCWH Scholar (i.e., 8-9 months after initial BIRCWH Scholar appointment) with strong mentor/SAC/BIRCWH leadership support. o Ongoing interaction for BIRCWH Scholars with their SACs following completion of the BIRCWH Scholar period (through the next academic steps) to extend guidance while also working to establish independence. o Addition of bioinformatics as a cutting edge, cross-cutting tool that will serve to interweave our foci. o Increased biostatistician availability to meet the complex statistical needs of the Scholars. o Addition of a BIRCWH facilitator, Dr. Laura Brown, a successful former BIRCWH Scholar, who will work with Scholars by focusing on research and career development issues including helping them work on their next grants- grants that will help them transition successfully to their post-BIRCWH careers. o A strong focus on working to increase diversity of our BIRCWH Scholars. Our overall goal is to: Support top applicants from a diverse pool of exceptionally motivated and talented individuals, and provide them with an appropriately tailored, top-quality interdisciplinary mentored research and career development experience. The excellent institutional support for the Colorado BIRCWH, with strong focus on women’s health, will also fuel the growth of this important program which aims to develop successful, independent interdisciplinary scientists in women’s health and sex differences research and thereby improve the health of women.