CORE--PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT

生物人口学和人口健康中心的方案发展核心（PDC）有四个主要目标：1)提供试点资金，支持以人口健康相关问题为重点的创新性跨学科研究；2)支持对人口健康有兴趣的有前途的青年教师，促进他们作为跨学科研究人员的职业发展；3)推动任命新的高级调查员加入CBPH

The Program Development Core (PDC) of the Center for Biodemography and Population Health has four primary aims: 1) to provide pilot funds to support innovative, interdisciplinary research focusing on questions related to population health; 2) to support promising junior faculty with interests in population health and foster their career development as interdisciplinary researchers; 3) to promote the appointment of new senior investigators to the CBPH with strong research agendas in a relevant area; 4) to coordinate use of Center research resources to optimally support and encourage collaborative, interdisciplinary research efforts among interested investigators from USC and UCLA, as such research "teams" are identified through programmatic outreach by the Administrative Core. The overarching goal of the PDC is to provide oversight and coordination of Center research resources so as to optimally facilitate the generation of research evidence on issues relating to population health that can be used to support a range of grant applications for new research projects as well as leading to publications. To achieve these aims, the PDC will work with the Administrative and Research Support Core (ARC) to solicit and guide program projects, recruit and involve relevant factdty researchers, provide general data analysis support, provide and prepare data, provide appropriate research settings, and statistical expertise.