Gerontological Public Health Training Program

描述（由申请人提供）：本申请的目的是培养公共卫生科学家，其职业研究目标是改善老年人的健康和生活质量。这个培训项目是伊利诺伊大学芝加哥分校（UIC）两个学院（公共卫生学院和应用健康科学学院）的合作项目，这两个学院在老年人健康问题的互动、多学科研究方面有着悠久的历史。该计划将主要以公共卫生学院（SPH）社区卫生科学和流行病学学术部门以及UIC健康研究和政策中心的健康与老龄化研究中心为基础。拟议的项目是围绕一个以对老年人健康的研究贡献而闻名的核心学院组织的，一个代表健康科学学院的咨询委员会，老年病学在该项目中担任咨询角色。项目到位后，将支持4名博士研究生和4名博士后研修生。每名受训人员将被分配给一名主要导师（并可选择一名次要导师），该导师将负责为每名受训人员提供公共卫生和老龄化方面的高要求和丰富的研究经验。培养受训者研究技能的策略包括：与公共卫生老年学方面有成就的研究人员进行密集的指导计划，为提高受训者的研究技能而设计的综合课程，以及促进科学报告、出版物和资助技能的计划性研究活动。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The objective of this application is to produce Public Health scientists whose career research goal is to improve the health and quality of life of elderly persons. This training program is a partnership among two Colleges at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) with a strong history of interactive, multidisciplinary research on health issues in older populations: the School of Public Health, and the College of Applied Health Sciences. The program will be based primarily in the School of Public Health (SPH) academic divisions of Community Health Sciences, and Epidemiology and in the Center for Research on Health and Aging at the UIC Health Research and Policy Centers. The proposed program is organized around a Core Faculty known for their research contributions to the health of older people, an Advisory Committee representing the health science colleges, with Geriatrics serving in an advisory role to the program. When fully in place, the program will support 4 Ph.D. candidates and 4 postdoctoral trainees. Each trainee will be assigned to a primary mentor (and an option for a secondary mentor) who will be responsible for providing each trainee with a demanding and enriching research experience in public health and aging. Strategies for developing the trainee's research skills include an intensive mentoring program with accomplished research faculty in public health gerontology, a comprehensive curriculum designed to promote research skills tailored to the trainee's research focus, and programmatic research activities promoting scientific presentations, publications and grantsmanship skills. The proposed training program builds upon a strong academic and research program, which has achieved considerable success in developing university faculty researchers in public health and aging. The program utilizes the considerable institutional resources at UIC including a distinguished multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary faculty in health and aging, a University Center for Research on Health and Aging that is the focal point for research in gerontological health across the UIC campus, and an ethnically and culturally diverse student and faculty body dedicated to addressing a broad array of health and social issues in urban environments.