Family Demography Training

描述（由申请人提供）：本提案要求宾夕法尼亚州立大学NICHD国家研究服务奖机构培训补助金的五年续期，用于家庭人口统计学培训：背景，发展和生物行为过程。我们要求继续支持目前的四个博士前和一个博士后培训槽。在我们的国家排名（#5）和研究生院授予双学科博士学位的基础上，人类发展与家庭研究（发展心理学）和人口统计学以及社会学和人口统计学，我们提出了一个博士前课程，将个人发展科学和生物行为科学与我们强大的核心人口学/人口科学培训（至少八门课程）（方法，理论和人口过程-生育率，健康/死亡率，迁移/移民，老龄化，家庭状况的变化），为新一代家庭人口学研究科学家提供明显的跨学科培训经验。博士后计划的重点是加强家庭人口统计学和个人发展的研究。拟议的培训计划的优势在于，它汇集了28名研究活跃的主要是高级学术级人口教师，他们具有与家庭人口统计学相关的背景，发展和生物行为奖学金方面的专业知识，其赠款活动得到了宾夕法尼亚州立大学人口研究所强大的研究基础设施的支持。这种智力环境为博士前和博士后实习生研究学徒提供了丰富的机会。博士预科生是从每年约335名申请者和目前就读于两个全国排名较高的参与学术部门的学生中招募的。在过去九年的NRSA培训补助金中，91%的博士前和博士后学员要么获得了人口学双博士学位，要么完成了他们的课程，要么目前正在注册并有望成功完成他们的课程。 公共卫生相关性：与公共卫生的相关性主要是因为家庭对儿童的健康和发展以及成年人的福祉非常重要，还因为在过去几十年中，家庭形式和家庭组成发生了巨大变化。在此背景下，至关重要的是要培养下一代家庭人口学研究人员，使他们具备新的跨学科知识和方法技能。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal requests a five-year renewal of the Penn State NICHD National Research Service Awards Institutional Training grant for Family Demography Training: Contextual, Developmental, and Biobehavioral Processes. We request continued support for the current four predoctoral and one postdoctoral training slot. Building on our nationally ranked (#5) and Graduate School awarded dual-discipline Ph.D. program in Human Development and Family Studies (developmental psychology) and Demography and in Sociology and Demography, we propose a predoctoral program which integrates individual developmental science and biobehavioral science with our strong (eight-course minimum) training in core demography/population science (methods, theory, and population processes - fertility, health/mortality, migration/immigration, aging, family status change) for a manifestly interdisciplinary training experience for a new generation of family demography research scientist. The postdoctoral program is focused on enhancing research in family demography and individual development. A strength of the proposed training program is that it brings together 28 research-active primarily advanced academic-rank population faculty with expertise in contextual, developmental, and biobehavioral scholarship related to family demography, and whose grant activity is supported by the strong research infrastructure of the Penn State Population Research Institute. This intellectual environment provides rich opportunities for pre- and postdoctoral trainee research apprenticeships. Predoctoral trainees are recruited from the approximately 335 annual applicants to and students currently enrolled in the two high nationally-ranked participating academic departments. Over the past nine years of our NRSA training grant, 91 percent of all pre- and postdoctoral trainees have either been awarded their dual-PhD in Demography or completed their program, or are currently enrolled and on track to successfully complete their program. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The relevance to public health is primarily because families are so important for the health and development of children and well-being of adults, and because there have been dramatic changes in family forms and family formation during the last several decades. Within this context, it is critical to train the next generation of family demography researchers with new interdisciplinary knowledge and methodological skills.