Albany Population Center

描述（由申请人提供）：纽约州立大学奥尔巴尼大学的社会和人口分析中心（CSDA）和刘易斯芒福德中心请求NICHD人口研究基础设施项目的支持。人口基础设施项目的48个教员研究协会分布在5个大学学院和14个学术部门。他们的研究围绕着空间不平等和弱势群体的交叉主题，同时跨越和整合了四个与人口相关的标志性主题：人口构成和再分配；儿童和青少年状况；家庭和家庭动态；以及健康、发病率和死亡率。自1997年首次获得P30奖以来，在奥尔巴尼大学的大力支持下，CSDA在促进创新的多学科人口研究、招募新的人口科学家、发展与其他研究中心和研究所的联系、吸引外部资金以及出版高质量的书籍和文章方面取得了实质性进展。我们寻求通过R24合同来利用这些成果，该合同将为三个研究支持核心（管理、计算/统计和信息/数据服务）提供基础设施支持，并为发展和公共基础设施组件做出贡献。持续的基础设施支持将使奥尔巴尼的人口研究人员能够进一步提高成本效益，并为人口科学和相关领域的研究指明新的方向。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Center for Social and Demographic Analysis (CSDA) and Lewis Mumford Center at the University at Albany, SUNY, request support from NICHD's Population Research Infrastructure Program. The 48 Faculty Research Associates of the population infrastructure program are distributed across five University colleges and fourteen academic departments. Their research coalesces around the crosscutting themes of Spatial Inequalities and Vulnerable Populations, while spanning and integrating four signature population-related themes: Population Composition and Redistribution; the Status of Children and Adolescents; Family and Household Dynamics; and Health, Morbidity, and Mortality. Since receiving its first P30 award in 1997, and with strong support from the University at Albany, CSDA has made substantial progress in fostering innovative, multidisciplinary population research, recruiting new population scientists, developing links to other research centers and institutes, attracting external funding, and publishing books and articles of the highest quality. We seek to capitalize on these gains through an R24 award, which would provide infrastructural support for three research support cores (administrative, computing/statistical, and information/data services), as well as contribute to developmental and public infrastructural components. Continued infrastructural support will allow Albany's population researchers to generate further cost-efficiencies and chart new directions for research in the population sciences and allied fields.