Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women's *

描述(由申请人提供)：匹兹堡大学致力于妇女健康方面的卓越培训已有很长的历史。自20世纪90年代初S以来，内科已将妇女健康住院医师跟踪和团契纳入内科。公共卫生研究生院流行病学系领导妇女健康研究至少20年了，培养了许多科学家。1992年，玛吉妇女研究所开始专门研究与妇女健康有关的研究问题。20世纪90年代中期，中国妇女健康流行病学第一期课题S正式启动。1996年，玛吉妇女医院和MWRI被指定为首批HHS妇女健康卓越中心之一。这一称号促进了该大学妇女健康研究和部门间合作的进一步增加。为了表彰其在妇女生殖健康方面的出色培训，产科、妇科和生殖科学系被授予妇女生殖健康研究职业发展中心奖。最近，MWRI与兰德公司和匹兹堡大学合作，在女性健康研究--健康服务研究--这个少有代表性的领域开始了一项培训计划。拟议的BIRCWH计划将整合这些项目和匹兹堡大学的其他项目，为初级教师提供职业发展，这些教师计划在基础、临床、流行病学或健康服务领域从事女性健康研究。这将由为学者设计的综合计划来补充，旨在提供跨主题和跨学科的互动。该计划将通过MWRI进行协调，但研究、培训和专业知识将解决妇女健康的所有问题。该方案包含四个主题，涵盖从先入为主到老年妇女的妇女健康。这些主题通过所有研究战略解决了这些问题。根据国际移民组织的建议，我们将培训调查人员，以解决性别特定健康差异的根本根源，在另一个主题中，我们认识到行为健康对女性的特殊影响，在另一个主题中，我们将解决生殖问题不仅对怀孕，而且在以后的生活中的影响。最后，我们集中培训妇女慢性病、老龄化和癌症的特殊考虑。我们在这份提案中描述了匹兹堡大学现有的特殊研究培训的组成部分，并建议协调和补充这些活动，以促进下一代妇女健康研究人员的跨学科职业发展。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The University of Pittsburgh has a long history of commitment to excellent training in women's health. Since the early 1990's, the Department of Internal Medicine has included a Women's Health Residency Track and Fellowship in the Internal Medicine. The Epidemiology Department of the Graduate School of Public Health has led research in women's health for at least 20 years, training numerous scientists. In 1992 the Magee-Women's Research Institute (MWRI) was begun to specifically address research questions relevant to women's health. In the mid 1990's the first program in the Epidemiology of Women's Health was begun. In 1996 Magee-Women's Hospital and MWRI were designated one of the first HHS Centers of Excellence in Women's Health. This designation catalyzed a further increase in women's health research and interdepartmental collaboration at the University. In recognition of its excellent training in women's reproductive health, the department of Obstetrics Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences was awarded a Women's Reproductive Health Research Career Development Center award. More recently the MWRI joined with RAND Corporation and the University of Pittsburgh to begin a training program in a much-underrepresented area of women's health research, health services research. The proposed BIRCWH program will integrate these and other University of Pittsburgh programs to provide career development for junior faculty planning careers in fundamental, clinical, epidemiological or health services women's health research. This will be complemented by integrative programs for the scholars designed to provide cross theme and cross-disciplinary interaction. The program will be orchestrated through the MWRI, but research training and expertise will address all issues of women's health. The Program incorporates four themes covering women's health from preconception to aged women. The themes address these issues with all research strategies. As recommended by the IOM, we will train investigators to address fundamental origin of gender specific health differences, in another theme we recognize the special impact of behavioral health on women and in another address the impact of reproductive issues not just upon pregnancy but also in later life. Finally, we concentrate training on the special considerations of chronic diseases, aging and cancer for women. We describe in this proposal the components for exceptional research training present at the University of Pittsburgh and propose to coordinate and complement these activities to facilitate interdisciplinary career development of the next generation of women's health investigators.