CAREER AWARD PROGRAM IN DEMOGRAPHY OF AGING

首席调查员和三名联合调查员都是加州大学伯克利分校人口学系的成员。他们寻求增加老龄化人口统计学领域的领先科学家的数量，方法是在他们职业生涯的早期或中期雇佣和指导研究人员。其中一名候选人可能是早期博士后学者，另一名候选人来自较晚的初级教师候选人；这里制定的计划大致建议分别指导其中一人。该提案基于伯克利分校在人口老龄化领域的四个主要优势：1.四名调查人员在教学、研究、指导和公共服务方面拥有丰富的经验。该部门的四名研究人员获得了相当大的认可，其中很大一部分是因为在老龄化人口统计学方面的工作，包括美国国家科学院院士(3人)、美国艺术和科学学院院士(2人)、现任美国人口协会艾琳·陶伯奖获得者、明德尔·谢普斯奖(2人)、国家研究理事会人口委员会前主席(2人)以及国际人口科学研究联盟现任理事会成员(1人)。2.在人口老龄化的广泛领域具有积极研究兴趣的社会科学研究人员组成的跨学科小组。NIA资助的老龄化经济学和人口学中心(CEDA)是其成员研究人员的焦点，他们来自工商管理、人口学、昆虫学、卫生经济学、法律和公共政策等领域。3.生物科学以及公共卫生和社会福利专业学校中更多的老龄问题研究人员聚集在老龄问题学术中心周围。即将上任的该中心主任也是CEDA的副主席和NIA K-07学术职业领袖奖的获得者，以协调伯克利地区所有与老龄化有关的活动。4.有机会在导师的指导下工作，这些导师目前的研究兴趣位于以下四个领域之一：老龄化的生物人口学；代际转移分析；关于极端年龄死亡率的跨国研究；以进化人类学为基础发展关于老龄化的观点。

The Principal Investigator and three co-investigators are all members of the Department of Demography at the University of California at Berkeley. They seek to increase the number of leading scientists in the demography of aging by hiring and mentoring researchers at early or middle formative stages in their careers. It is likely that one of the candidates will be an early post-doctoral scholar and that the other will be from among late junior faculty candidates; the Program as formulated here broadly proposes to mentor one of each. The proposal relies on four of Berkeley's major strengths in the field of population aging: 1. The four investigators have substantial experience in teaching, research, mentoring, and public service. The four investigators from that department have received substantial recognition, much of it for work in the demography of aging, including membership in the National Academy of Sciences (3), fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2), the current winner of the Irene Taeuber Award from the Population Association of America, the Mindel Sheps Award (2), past chairs of the National Research Council Committee on Population (2) and membership on the current Council of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (1). 2. An interdisciplinary group of social science researchers with active research interests in the broad field of population aging. An NIA-funded Center on the Economics and Demography of Aging (CEDA) serves as the focal point for its member researchers, who come from such fields as business administration, demography, entomology, health economics, law, and public policy. 3. A wider group of researchers on aging in the biological sciences and in the professional schools of public health and social welfare, clustered around the Academic Geriatric Center on Aging. The in-coming Director of this Center is also Vice-Chair of CEDA and recipient of an NIA K-07 Academic Career Leadership Award to coordinate all aging-related activities in the Berkeley region. 4. The opportunity to work under mentors whose current research interests lie in one of four fields: biodemography of aging; analysis of intergenerational transfers; cross-national research on mortality at extreme ages; developing perspectives on aging grounded in evolutionary anthropology.