Gerontological Public Health Training Program

描述（由申请人提供）：本申请的目的是产生公共卫生科学家，其职业研究目标是改善老年人的健康和生活质量。该培训计划是伊利诺伊大学芝加哥分校（UIC）两个学院之间的合作伙伴关系，具有对老年人健康问题进行互动，多学科研究的悠久历史：公共卫生学院和应用健康科学学院。该计划将主要基于公共卫生学院（SPH）社区健康科学和流行病学的学术部门，以及UIC健康研究和政策中心的健康与老龄化研究中心。拟议的计划是围绕着一个核心学院，他们的研究贡献，以老年人的健康，一个咨询委员会代表健康科学学院，与老年医学服务在该计划的咨询作用。当完全到位，该计划将支持4博士。博士研究生和博士后4名。每个受训者将被分配给一个主要的导师（和一个二级导师的选项）谁将负责提供每个受训者在公共卫生和老龄化的要求和丰富的研究经验。发展受训者的研究技能的战略包括一个密集的辅导计划，与公共卫生老年学，旨在促进研究技能量身定制的受训者的研究重点，和促进科学演示，出版物和granitarian技能的方案研究活动完成研究教师。 拟议的培训计划建立在强大的学术和研究计划的基础上，该计划在发展公共卫生和老龄化方面的大学教师研究人员方面取得了相当大的成功。该计划利用UIC的大量机构资源，包括健康和老龄化方面的杰出多学科和跨学科教师，健康与老龄化研究大学中心，该中心是整个UIC校园老年健康研究的焦点，以及一个种族和文化多样的学生和教师团体，致力于解决城市环境中广泛的健康和社会问题。

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.