Duke Population Research Institute

杜克大学人口研究所（DuPRI）是一个跨学科的研究组织，汇集了杜克大学生物学、经济学、数学、心理学、统计学、社会学和政策科学的研究人员。该研究所旨在提高杜克大学在人口学和人口科学领域的声誉，并扩大目前人口调查的范围。杜普里寻求在人口科学领域进行高度创新的跨学科研究，并促进下一代研究人员的发展。该研究所目前有四个实质性优势领域：(a)人口健康和健康差距；(b)儿童和人类发展；(c)家庭人口统计；(d)社会和经济不平等。在这些实质性的领域，杜普里大学的教师使用了一套不同寻常的广泛的方法，其中许多是由我们的教师开创的。主要有四组方法：(a)统计和数学建模；(b)生物过程的测量及其影响分析；(c)网络及其影响分析；(d)人种学和混合方法。杜普里目前有来自11个系、学院和研究所的49名教员。本申请要求NICHD人口基础设施项目——短期支持上升项目（SSRP）提供资金，以支持两个研究核心，即行政、计算和信息，以及一个发展核心。我们提出了一系列高价值的活动，这些活动将汇集学者，通过跨学科的交流和合作，识别和开发新的研究领域，从而促进创新。拟议的核心将降低寻求和管理外部资金的行政成本，使研究人员能够专注于科学。就其本身而言，这将导致人口研究的外部资金增加，但最终目标是通过发展科学来增加外部资金，而没有DuPRI就不可能实现这一目标。考虑到杜克大学人口研究人员的数量和质量，它最近招聘顶尖人口科学家的记录，以及它独特的数据资源（例如，在主要的国际小组调查方面的领导地位，在主要的民族志数据收集方面的调查和人口普查研究数据中心的存在）。杜普里正在成为人口研究界的主要贡献者。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Duke University Population Research Institute (DuPRI) is an interdisciplinary researching organization bringing together researchers, from the biological, economic, mathematical, psychological, statistical, and sociological and policy sciences at Duke. The Institute seeks to enhance Duke's reputation in the area of (demography and population science as well as expand the current boundaries of demographic investigation. DuPRI seeks to produce highly innovative interdisciplinary research in the population sciences and to foster the development of the next generation of researchers. DuPRI currently has four areas of substantive strength: (a) Population Health and Health Disparities, (b) Child and Human Development, (c) Family Demography and (d) Social and Economic Inequality. Within these substantive areas DuPRI faculty use an unusually wide set of methods, many of which have been pioneered by our faculty. Four groups of methods stand out: (a) Statistical and Mathematical Modeling, (b) Measurement of Biological Processes and Analyses of their Influence, (c) Analyzes of Networks and their Influence and (d) Ethnography and Mixed Methods. DuPRI currently has 49 faculty associates from 11 departments, schools and institutes. This application requests funding from the NICHD Population Infrastructure Program-Short-term Support for Rising Programs (SSRP) to support two research cores, administrative and computing and information, and a developmental core. We propose a small set of high value activities that will bring together scholars in order to foster innovation by identifying and exploiting new areas of inquiry uncovered and developed through interdisciplinary communication and collaboration. The proposed cores will lower the administrative costs of seeking and managing external funding freeing researchers to concentrate on science. By itself, this will lead to increased external funding in population research but the ultimate goal is to increase external funding by developing science that would not be possible without DuPRI. Given, the number and quality of population researchers at Duke, its recent record of recruiting top population scientists and its unique data resources (e.g., the leadership on major international panel surveys, on major ethnographic data collection with surveys and the presence of a Census Research Data Center). DuPRI is on its way to becoming a major contributor to the population research community. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: DuPRI studies fundamental issues in population health. These include sources of mortality and morbidity nationally and internationally and the sources of healthy child development.