Graduate Training in Demography

描述（由申请人提供）：人口统计学研究生组在宾夕法尼亚大学要求资金提供人口统计学培训，以六个博士前的学生。目前的培训计划，其中更新的要求，有六个批准的博士前职位，其中五个已获得资助。博士前课程由人口统计学研究生组管理，人口研究中心内有18名教师，具有社会学，经济学，人口学，护理和医学背景。人口学博士前课程的主要目的是培养独立的研究人员，他们准备在正式的人口学，社会人口学，人口分析和人口健康研究中发挥主导作用。这一目标是通过在方法，理论方法和人口统计学和相关学科的实证结果强化教学来实现的;并逐步将学生纳入教师的研究活动，最终导致独立的研究。培训计划反映了人口研究中心对美国和发展中国家弱势群体人口变化和健康的重视。在NICHD的支持下，人口学研究生小组几十年来已经证明，它可以招募有才华、有前途的学生，并为他们的生产性职业做好准备。自1996年以来，宾夕法尼亚大学的人口学博士拥有23个终身或终身学术职位。在过去十年中，有27名博士预科生成为国家排雷中心的受训人员。我们表明，绝大多数人已经开始，或正在走向人口和卫生领域的强大职业生涯。招募和培训代表性不足的少数民族成员，特别是非洲裔美国人，一直是人口研究中心的一个重点。一个“支线计划”，创造了一个良好的社会化和训练有素的少数民族候选人池已开始产生显着的职位后博士。我们认为，我们现在处于一种有效的“稳定状态”，能够继续征聘和培训数量合理的高水平人口问题学者，无论是少数群体还是非少数群体。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Graduate Group in Demography at the University of Pennsylvania requests funds to provide training in demography to six pre-doctoral students. The current training program, for which renewal is requested, has six approved pre-doctoral positions, of which five have been funded. The pre-doctoral program is administered by the Graduate Group in Demography, 18 faculty members within the Population Studies Center with backgrounds in sociology, economics, demography, nursing, and medicine. The principal aim of the demography pre-doctoral program is to train independent researchers who are prepared to play leading roles in formal demography, social demography, population analysis, and the study of the health of populations. This goal is achieved through intensive instruction in the methods, theoretical approaches, and empirical results of demography and allied disciplines; and progressive incorporation of students into faculty research activities that will eventually lead to independent research. The training program reflects the Population Studies Center's emphasis on population change and health among disadvantaged groups-in the United States and in the developing world. The Graduate Group in Demography, with support from the NICHD, has demonstrated over several decades that it can recruit talented, promising students, and prepare them for productive careers. Ph.D.s from Penn with Demography degrees since 1996 account for 23 tenured or tenure-track academic positions. In the past ten years, 27 pre-doctoral students have been NICHD trainees. We show that the vast majority have started, or are on their way to strong careers in population and health. The recruitment and training of members of under-represented minorities-African- Americans in particular-has been a point of emphasis for the Population Studies Center. A "feeder program" that created a pool of well-socialized and trained minority candidates has begun to yield significant placements post-Ph.D. We believe that we are now in an effective "steady state" that can continue to recruit and train at a high level a reasonable number of population scholars, minority and non-minority alike.