R24 Population Center Grant

描述（由申请人提供）：布朗大学人口研究和培训中心（PSTC）申请其第四轮5年人口研究基础设施基金。该申请证明了PSTC的智力活力，跨学科合作以及强大的物理和制度环境。我们的申请叙述了在教师和设施方面的主要新投资，以及持续项目科学家蓬勃发展的研究活动。PSTC的研究人员中有35名教师。员工广泛参与外部研究支持，是富有成效的学者。这些合作伙伴代表了社会科学、人类学、经济学和社会学三个关键领域的实力，以及来自相关卫生领域和国际研究的重大贡献。本应用程序概述描述了在PSTC（人类学人口学，非洲人口学，原始数据收集）出现的特殊制度特征，以及表征我们实质性研究领域的标志性主题（空间人口调查，生育和艾滋病毒/艾滋病，家庭和住户，社会行为和健康，人口和环境）。该应用程序描述了我们跨学科合作和研究的性质，并提供了有关三个基础设施核心（管理，计算和信息服务以及空间分析）的信息来支持该研究。它还描述了一个雄心勃勃的发展核心，计划通过利用大学的重要支持和布朗大学联合健康和社会科学研究单位的参与来刺激新的跨学科研究活动。此应用程序响应RFA-HD-05-028，人口研究基础设施计划。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Brown's Population Studies and Training Center (PSTC) applies for its fourth round of 5-year Population Research infrastructure funding. The application documents intellectual vitality, trans-disciplinary cooperation and a strong physical and institutional environment for the PSTC. Our application recounts major new investments in faculty and facilities together with the flourishing research activity of continuing program scientists. The PSTC counts 35 faculty among its research associates. Associates have extensive involvement in external research support and are productive scholars. These associates represent three key areas of strength in social science, Anthropology, Economics, and Sociology as well as significant contributions from allied health fields and international studies. This application Program Overview describes the special institutional features that have emerged at the PSTC (Anthropological Demography, African Demography, Primary Data Collection), as well as the signature themes that characterize our substantive research areas (Spatial Population Inquiry, Fertility and HIV/AIDS, Families and Households, Social Behavior and Health, Population and Environment). The application describes the nature of our interdisciplinary cooperation and research, and it presents information about three infrastructure cores (Administrative, Computing and Information Services, and Spatial Analysis) to support that research. It also describes an ambitious Developmental Core with plans to stimulation new interdisciplinary research activity by drawing on significant support from the university and participation from allied health and social science research units at Brown. This application responds to RFA-HD-05-028, Population Research Infrastructure Program.