Columbia Population Research Center

描述（由申请人提供）：哥伦比亚人口研究中心（CPRC）寻求R24人口研究基础设施计划-NICHD/NIH人口与行为科学分支的短期支持。我们要求在2009年7月1日开始的五年期间提供75万美元的直接费用。该中心有四个标志性研究领域：（1）儿童、青年和家庭;（2）艾滋病毒/艾滋病和生殖健康;（3）移民和移徙;（4）城市化。这四个领域的研究由两个交叉主题统一起来：（1）弱势群体的健康和福祉;（2）解决这些脆弱性的公共卫生和社会政策的形成，实施和评估。我们的目标是：（1）滋养人口研究人员在哥伦比亚大学充满活力的知识界;（2）推进人口研究在我们的四个签名领域;（3）成为一个领先的人口中心，专门研究当地，国家和国际弱势群体的健康和福祉，以及与这些人口相关的公共政策;（4）利用哥伦比亚在纽约市的地理位置，既解决其作为全球城市的地位所特有或加剧的问题，又利用和进一步发展哥伦比亚研究人员与当地学术机构、城市和国际机构之间的许多伙伴关系。我们将通过三个研究支持核心（管理，计算/数据/信息（GDI）和方法）和发展基础设施核心，将促进跨学科和跨校园的研究联系哥伦比亚教师的工作推进这些目标来实现这些目标。在5年内，CPRC预计将成为一个全面的人口基础设施计划奖高度竞争。CPRC由欧文加芬克尔，米切尔I共同执导。社会工作学院当代城市问题金斯伯格教授和康斯坦斯A。Nathanson，梅尔曼公共卫生学院临床社会医学科学和人口与家庭健康教授。 相关性：CPRC将有助于公众的健康都通过我们的承诺，解开社会，经济和环境的情况下，有助于健康风险，特别是风险的人口脆弱的贫困，种族，民族，性别，性取向，和移民身份，并通过我们的平等承诺转化为我们的研究政策，以减轻这些风险。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Columbia Population Research Center (CPRC) seeks R24 Population Research Infrastructure Program - Short-term Support for Rising Programs from the Demographic and Behavioral Sciences Branch at NICHD/NIH (PAR-07-401). We request $750,000 in direct costs over the five-year period beginning July 1, 2009. CPRC has four signature areas of research: (1) children, youth, and families, (2) HIV/AIDS and reproductive health, (3) immigration and migration, and (4) urbanism. Research In these four areas is united by two cross-cutting themes: (1) the health and well-being of vulnerable populations; and (2) the formation, implementation, and evaluation of public health and social policies that address these vulnerabilities. Our goals are to: (1) nourish a vibrant intellectual community of population researchers at Columbia University; (2) advance population research in our four signature areas; (3) become a leading population center specializing In research on the health and well being of vulnerable populations locally, nationally, and internationally, and on public policies relevant to those populations; and (4) take advantage of Columbia's location in New York City, both to address Issues specific to or aggravated by its status as a global city, and also to exploit and further develop the many partnerships between Columbia researchers and local academic, city, and International institutions. We will accomplish these goals through three research support cores (Administration, Computing/Data/information (GDI) and Methodology) and a Developmental Infrastructure Core that will foster cross-disciplinary and cross-campus research linkages among Columbia faculty whose work advances those goals. Within 5 years, CPRC expects to be highly competitive for a full-scale Population Infrastructure Program award. CPRC is co-directed by Irwin Garfinkel, Mitchell I. Ginsberg Professor of Contemporary Urban Problems in the Faculty of Social Work, and Constance A. Nathanson, Professor of Clinical Sociomedlcal Sciences and of Population and Family Health in the Mailman School of Public Health. RELEVANCE: CPRC will contribute to the public's health both by our commitment to unraveling the social, economic, and environmental circumstances that contribute to health risks, in particular risks to populations made vulnerable by poverty, race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and migrant status, and by our equal commitment to translating our research into policies to mitigate those risks.