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。该培训计划是伊利诺伊大学芝加哥分校 (UIC) 两所学院之间的合作伙伴关系，这两个学院在老年人群健康问题方面拥有悠久的互动、多学科研究历史：公共卫生学院和应用健康科学学院。该项目将主要设在公共卫生学院（SPH）的社区健康科学和流行病学学术部门以及伊利诺伊大学芝加哥分校健康研究和政策中心的健康和老龄化研究中心。拟议的计划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和一个代表健康科学学院的咨询委员会组织的，其中老年病学为该计划提供咨询服务。完全到位后，该计划将支持 4 名博士生。博士生和博士后4名。每位学员将被分配一名主要导师（也可以选择一名二级导师），该导师将负责为每位学员提供公共卫生和老龄化方面要求严格且丰富的研究经验。培养受训者研究技能的策略包括由公共卫生老年学领域的资深研究人员参与的强化指导计划、旨在提高针对受训者研究重点的研究技能的综合课程，以及促进科学演示、出版物和资助技能的计划性研究活动。 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。该项目利用了伊利诺伊大学芝加哥分校的大量机构资源，包括健康与老龄化方面杰出的多学科和跨学科教师、大学健康与老龄化研究中心（整个伊利诺伊大学芝加哥分校校园老年学健康研究的焦点），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人员团体。

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.