Family Demography Training

描述（由申请人提供）：本提案要求将宾夕法尼亚州立大学NICHD国家研究服务奖机构培训补助金续期五年，用于家庭人口统计学培训：背景，发展和生物行为过程。我们请求继续支持目前的4个博士预科和1个博士后培养名额。我们的研究生院在人类发展和家庭研究（发展心理学）和人口学以及社会学和人口学方面获得了全国排名第五的双学科博士学位，在此基础上，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在核心人口/人口科学（方法，理论和人口过程-生育，健康/死亡率）方面的强大（至少八门课程）培训结合起来。移民/移民，老龄化，家庭状况变化)为新一代家庭人口研究科学家提供了明显的跨学科培训经验。博士后项目的重点是加强家庭人口学和个人发展方面的研究。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别的人口教师，他们在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具有专业知识，其资助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后和博士后实习研究学徒提供了丰富的机会。博士预科生是从每年约335名申请者和目前在两个全国排名较高的参与学术部门注册的学生中招募的。在过去九年的NRSA培训资助中，91%的预科和博士后学员要么获得了人口统计学双博士学位，要么完成了他们的课程，要么正在入学，并正在顺利完成他们的课程。

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.