UCSF-Kaiser Department of Research Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women’s Health (BIRCWH) Program

摘要 这项相互竞争的续签申请是为了支持加州大学旧金山分校(UCSF)和Kaiser 常住北加州(KPNC)研究大楼跨学科研究部门 妇女健康事业(BIRCWH)计划。该计划的目标是： 1.招募一批优秀和多样化的早期职业女性健康研究人员； 2.就性别和性别对健康和疾病的影响提供有针对性的培训和指导； 3.在我们现有方案的基础上，以具有公共卫生重要性的妇女健康为主题； 4.加强和整合跨学科研究模式，培养促进联系的研究人员 跨学科、跨机构，擅长团队科学建设； 5.促进突出妇女健康，留住临床任职人数不足的研究人员 通过指导BIRCWH学者和校友在学术进步和领导力方面的研究。 我们项目的基本原理是，学者们在女性健康领域的成功职业生涯将改变生物医学 研究并最终促进美国妇女的健康，通过持续的关注性和 性别对健康和疾病的影响。该项目汇集了来自16个国家的导师和顾问 加州大学旧金山分校的部门和中心以及KPNC。课程设计强调跨学科的方法 广泛的妇女健康问题。我们将继续该计划在开创性研究方面的倡议 女性癌症；环境健康；心理健康、成瘾和认知；传染病； 新陈代谢和骨骼健康；以及一生中的生殖健康。多学科加州大学旧金山分校/KPNC 咨询委员会与领导层合作监督该项目，包括挑选新的学者。 我们的计划培养了跨学科和研究方法的指导团队。不同的学者和 在兴趣领域、背景、培训、种族/民族和性别方面，教师是优先考虑的。我们的 该计划支持三名BIRCWH助理教授级别的学者至少两年，他们 接受量身定制的指导，并参加培训课程、计划研讨会、进度评估和 领导力发展活动，包括为校友举办的活动。一系列职业发展和培训 加州大学旧金山分校临床和转化科学研究所(CTSI)的机会支持我们的BIRCWH计划。 每个学者的职业发展道路都是根据具体的经验和指导而量身定做的， 最有效地支持向独立过渡。我们的计划评估遵循以下概念框架 学者职业发展的重要领域，以及评估学者成果的调查措施，如 作为职业轨迹、科学生产力和BIRCWH计划的有效性，BIRCWH在之后长达10年的时间里。 该方案将继续成为一项独特的资源，使妇女的健康走在有希望的前列 旧金山湾区和其他地区的进步正在改变我们国家的健康科学。

ABSTRACT This competing renewal application is to support the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and Kaiser Permanente Northern California (KPNC) Department of Research Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women's Health (BIRCWH) Program. The program objectives are to: 1. Recruit a superb and diverse group of early-career women's health researchers; 2. Provide tailored training and mentoring on sex and gender influences in health and disease; 3. Build upon our existing program by targeting topics in women's health of public health importance; 4. Strengthen and integrate models of interdisciplinary research to develop researchers who foster linkages across disciplines and institutions and excel in building team science; 5. Promote the prominence of women's health and the retention of investigators underrepresented in clinical research by mentoring BIRCWH scholars and alumni in academic advancement and leadership. The rationale of our program is that scholars' successful careers in women's health will transform biomedical research and ultimately advance women's health in the US through sustained focus on the study of sex and gender influences in health and disease. The program brings together mentors and advisors from 16 of UCSF's departments and centers and KPNC. The program design emphasizes interdisciplinary approaches to a wide range of women's health issues. We will continue the program's initiatives in path-breaking research in women's cancers; environmental health; mental health, addiction, and cognition; infectious diseases; metabolism and bone health; and reproductive health across the lifespan. A multidisciplinary UCSF/KPNC Advisory Committee oversees the program in partnership with leadership, including selection of new scholars. Our program fosters mentoring teams that cross disciplines and research methodologies. Diverse scholars and faculty—in terms of fields of interest, background, training, race/ethnicity, and gender—are a priority. Our program supports three BIRCWH scholars at the Assistant Professor level for at least two years and they receive tailored mentoring and participate in training courses, program seminars, progress assessments, and leadership development activities, including for alumni. An array of career development and training opportunities at the UCSF Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI) support our BIRCWH program. The career development path for each scholar is tailored to the specific experience and mentoring that will most effectively support transition to independence. Our program evaluation follows a conceptual framework of important domains to scholar career development, with survey measures that assess scholar outcomes such as career trajectory, scientific productivity, and BIRCWH program effectiveness for up to 10 years afterwards. The program will continue to be a unique resource to bring women's health to the forefront of promising advances in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond that are transforming the health sciences for our nation.