Gerontological Public Health Training Program

描述(申请人提供)：本申请的目标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。该培训项目是伊利诺伊大学芝加哥分校(UIC)的两个学院之间的合作项目，这两个学院在关于老年人健康问题的互动、多学科研究方面有着丰富的历史：公共卫生学院和应用健康科学学院。该计划将主要设在公共卫生学院(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和老龄化研究中心。拟议中的计划围绕一个核心学院组织，该学院以其对老年人健康的研究贡献而闻名，该核心学院是一个代表健康科学学院的咨询委员会，老年医学在该计划中发挥咨询作用。该计划完全到位后，将支持4名博士生和4名博士后实习生。每名学员将被分配给一名初级导师(以及一名二级导师)，负责为每位学员提供要求苛刻、内容丰富的公共卫生和老龄化研究经验。培养学员研究技能的战略包括与公共卫生老年学方面的资深研究人员一起开展密集的指导计划，为促进学员的研究重点而量身定做的研究技能而设计的综合课程，以及促进科学陈述、出版物和赠款技能的方案研究活动。 拟议的培训计划建立在强大的学术和研究计划的基础上，该计划在培养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。该计划利用了UIC的大量机构资源，包括在健康和老龄化方面的杰出的多学科和跨学科的教员，作为整个UIC校园老年学健康研究的焦点的大学健康和老龄研究中心，以及致力于解决城市环境中广泛的健康和社会问题的种族和文化多元化的学生和教职员工团体。

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.