Society for Prevention Research Annual Meetings

描述(由申请人提供)： 本申请请求继续支持预防研究学会(SPR)从2006年5月1日至2011年4月30日召开的年度科学会议。预防科学有可能降低一系列常见且代价高昂的问题的患病率，包括儿童和青少年的问题行为、心理健康问题、有艾滋病毒/艾滋病风险的性行为以及烟草、酒精和其他药物使用。预防科学研究所有效发展预防科学的目标将有助于公共卫生：(1)建立一个广泛的科学论坛，交流来自日益多样化的公共卫生领域的预防科学的概念、方法和成果；(2)为培训早期职业、少数群体和知名科学家创造机会；(3)更好地将预防研究与日益多样化的公共卫生领域相结合；以及(4)向科学界、政策制定者和普通公众传播基于预防研究的知识。SPR会议是科学家和政策制定者接触的主要论坛，早期职业研究人员与高级研究人员互动，从业人员接触到他们实施的项目背后的科学研究。2005年会议的主题是“预防科学与公共健康：促进人口福祉”，代表了SPR致力于有效传播以研究为基础的预防政策和方案的承诺。每一主题都有诸如“预防研究的经济和成本-效用分析”和“促进儿童早期健康发展”等分主题的支持。演讲者是从同行评审的摘要中挑选出来的，他们代表了不同的科学观点，分享了尖端的科学方法。特别方案审查会议仍然是发展预防科学的主要工具。它促成了交叉研究和干预方法的确定，并促进了从事各种问题的基础科学家和应用科学家之间的合作。如果拨款支持预防科学绘图进展(MAPS)任务组，这些进展将进一步加快。这些跨学科的科学家小组将在年度会议上组织，并在两年多的时间里得到支持，以确定和发展关于关键主题的进一步研究，包括将生物和行为预防研究整合在一起，并将研究转化为预防实践。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application requests continued support of the annual scientific meetings of the Society for Prevention Research (SPR) from 05/01/06 to 04/30/11. Prevention science has the potential to reduce the prevalence of a wide range of common and costly problems including problem behaviors of childhood and adolescence, mental health problems, sexual behavior that risk HIV/AIDS, and tobacco, alcohol, and other drug use. SPR's goals for the effective development of prevention science will contribute to public health: (1) establish a broad scientific forum for the exchange of concepts, methods, and results in prevention science from increasingly diverse areas of public health; (2) create opportunities for training early career, minority, and established scientists; (3) better integrate prevention research with increasingly diverse areas of public health; and (4) disseminate prevention research-based knowledge to the scientific community, policymakers, and the lay public. The SPR meeting is the primary forum in which scientists and policy makers come into contact, early career researchers interact with senior researchers and practitioners are exposed to the scientific research behind the programs they implement. The 2005 meeting theme "Prevention Science to Public Health: Promoting Well-Being in the Population" is representative of SPR's commitment to research on effective dissemination of research-based prevention policies and programs. Each theme is supported with sub-themes such as the "Economic and Cost-Utility Analysis of Prevention Research" and "Promoting Healthy Early Childhood Development". Presenters, who are selected from peer-reviewed abstract submissions, represent diverse scientific perspectives and share cutting-edge scientific methodology. The SPR meeting continues to be the primary vehicle for the development of prevention science. It has led to the identification of cross-cutting research and intervention methods and has fostered collaboration among basic and applied scientists working on diverse problems. These developments will be further accelerated if funds are awarded to support the Mapping Advances in Prevention Science (MAPS) task groups. These transdisciplinary groups of scientists will be organized at annual meetings and supported over two years to define and develop further research on critical topics, including integration of biological and behavioral prevention research and the translation of research into prevention practice.