Center on Population Health and Aging

人口健康和老龄化中心（CPHA）将提供一个协同环境， 研究不断增长和多样化的老年人口所带来的挑战。CPHA的具体目标是：1）鼓励 关于老年人健康和福祉的创新合作研究; 2）抓住机会， 发展跨学科研究，3）提供科学交流和研究人员发展的机制，以及4） 提供一个具有成本效益的环境来支持CPHA研究人员。这些目标奠定了一个持续的基础，但动态 研究老年人健康和福祉的跨学科方法--人口 科学起着核心作用。CPHA致力于研究者的发展，这是可持续发展的重要组成部分。 提出的方案。 CPHA的标志性主题包括科学卓越领域，尖端技术的新机遇， 研究以及RFA中概述的关键主题领域。这些主题是：1）SES，种族和民族之间的相互关系 2）慢性病和残疾的趋势和差异; 3）老龄化的生物人口学方法 4）工作和家庭对健康和福祉的看法，以及5）体弱者的生活安排和护理 老人 CPHA是宾夕法尼亚州立大学5个多学科研究中心合作的结果， 研究所，卫生保健和政策研究中心，老年学中心， 发展和健康遗传学，以及人类发展和家庭研究中心在不同的 Contexts.中心间的合作增强了CPHA执行其鼓励科学异花受精使命的能力 传统人口科学之间以及人口科学与 行为遗传学、人类发展、护理、健康政策、少数民族老龄化、老年学和生物行为健康。 合作对于建立与多样化科学界的沟通渠道至关重要。中心之间 协作还提供了一种利用现有基础设施资源的手段， 项目研究，导致老龄人口学的持续方案发展。

The Center on Population Health and Aging (CPHA) will provide a synergistic environment supporting research on the challenges of a growing and diverse older population. CPHA's specific aims are to: 1) encourage innovative collaborative research on the health and well-being of the older population; 2) address opportunities to develop interdisciplinary research, 3) provide mechanisms for scientific exchange and investigator development, and 4) provide a cost-effective setting to support CPHA researchers. These aims lay the basis for a sustained, yet dynamic interdisciplinary approach to research on the older population's health and well-being - one in which the population sciences play a central role. CPHA is committed to investigator development, an essential piece for the sustainability of the proposed program. CPHA's signature themes encompass areas of scientific excellence, new opportunities for cutting-edge research, and key topic areas outlined in the RFA. These themes are: 1) the interrelationships among SES, raceethnicity and health; 2) trends and differences in chronic disease and disability; 3) biodemographie approaches to aging and health; 4) work and family perspectives on health and well-being, and 5) living arrangements and care of the frail elderly. CPHA is the outcome of collaboration among 5 multidisciplinary research centers at Penn State, the Population Research Institute, the Center for Health Care and Policy Research, the Gerontology Center, the Center for Developmental and Health Genetics, and the Center for Human Development and Family Research in Diverse Contexts. Inter-center collaboration enhances CPHA's ability to carry out its mission of encouraging scientific crossfertilization among the traditional population sciences and between the population sciences and fields such as behavioral genetics, human development, nursing, health policy, minority aging, gerontology, and biobehavioral health. Collaboration is essential in establishing lines of communication to a diverse scientific community. Inter-center collaboration also provides a means to leverage outstanding infrastmcmral resources, bringing them to bear in pilot project research that leads to sustained programmatic development on the demography of aging.