Brown University BIRCWH Career Development Program

描述（由申请人提供）：布朗大学BIRCWH职业发展计划的目标是通过培养合格的妇女健康研究人员，促进跨学科研究的表现和成果的转移，从而有利于妇女的健康。该方案将通过实现以下目标来实现这一目标：(1)为每个跨学科妇女健康研究学者提供适合其科学研究发展需求和兴趣的课程。将开设以下课程：统计方法、研究设计、研究行为、妇女健康和性别问题、病理生物学、科学出版、拨款写作以及成为一名成功的独立妇女健康调查员所必需的其他“工具”；(2)为每位学者提供深入接触跨学科妇女健康研究的机会，并为其提供合适的导师，以提供指导和专业知识，确保学术发展成功；(3)提供研究基础设施（实验室和研究助理、方法学家、数据管理人员和统计支助）和充分的保护时间，以创造有利于调查妇女健康的环境。该项目将利用布朗大学分子微生物学、免疫学和分子生物学、细胞生物学和生物化学系、社区卫生系、布朗医学院及其附属医院、妇女和婴儿医院研究部和乔治安德森结果测量部、伍兹霍尔玛丽生物实验室、国家围产期信息中心、以及罗德岛大学癌症预防研究中心。潜在的研究项目集中在以下五个主要领域，可用于妇女健康：(1)预防和行为改变；(2)妇女保健中的性别问题；(3)卫生服务研究、流行病学和生物统计学；(4)妇女感染艾滋病毒和艾滋病；(5)产科和妇科研究，包括围产期诊断和管理，早期妊娠筛查，转化免疫学，发育生物学和细胞动力学。这一跨学科和跨机构方案将提供一支新的学术调查骨干队伍，他们将进一步完善科学数据库并改善妇女的健康状况。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goal of the Brown University BIRCWH Career Development Program is to promote the performance of interdisciplinary research and transfer of findings that will benefit the health of women through the development of well-qualified women's health investigators. The program will achieve this goal by accomplishing the following objectives: (1) Provide each Interdisciplinary Women's Health Research scholar with a curriculum tailored to his/her scientific research development needs and interests. Courses will be offered in statistical methods, research design, conduct of research, women's health and gender issues, pathobiology, scientific publishing, grant writing, and additional "tools" necessary to become a successful independent investigator in women's health; (2) Provide each scholar with an intensive exposure to interdisciplinary women's health research and a suitable mentor who can provide the guidance and expertise to assure successful academic development; (3) Provide the research infrastructure (laboratory and research assistants, methodologists, data managers, and statistical support) and adequate protected time to create an environment conducive to investigation into women's health. The program will take advantage of the existing strengths of the Departments of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology and Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry, and Community Health at Brown University, Brown Medical School and its affiliated hospitals, Women & Infants Hospital Division of Research and George Anderson Outcomes Measurement Unit, the Woods Hole Marie Biological Laboratory, the National Perinatal Information Center, and the Cancer Prevention Research Center at the University of Rhode Island. Potential research projects focus in the following five major areas with applications in women's health: (1) Prevention and Behavior Change; (2) Gender Issues in Women's Health; (3) Health Services Research, Epidemiology and Biostatistics; (4) HIV and AIDS in Women; and (5) Obstetric and Gynecologic Research, including perinatal diagnosis and management, screening in early pregnancy, translational immunology, and developmental biology and cell dynamics. This interdisciplinary and cross-institutional program will provide a new cadre of academic investigators who will further the scientific database and improved the health status of women.