Biomedical-Behavioral Interface: Prevention and Developmental Sciences Training

此应用程序建议支持跨学科研究培训计划，该计划与 行为和生物医学科学，交叉主题强调预防和发展 广义的科学。这一博士前培训计划吸引了来自三个单位的受训人员，这些单位 从事行为科学：运动科学、流行病学和心理学。许多人 行为科学教师导师正在研究与健康相关的研究问题，这些问题与 预防科学、发展科学(从生命周期的角度来看是广义的)，或者两者兼而有之。 行为-生物医学接口计划(BBIP)在范围上是跨学科的，包括计划教师 在以下部门任职：生物科学系；通信科学和疾病学系； 流行病学与生物统计学；运动科学；药理学、生理学与神经科学；以及 心理学。BBIP部分基于灵活的培训模块，旨在提供具有凝聚力的、 综合课程，让学生感受到联系，并有足够的机会和场所 与许多项目的教职员工和学生进行互动。这在一定程度上是通过模块化格式来实现的 在该计划的最初几年为学生提供一个有凝聚力的同龄人小组，并培养学生- 各单元之间的教员互动。单元涵盖神经生物学、内分泌学、遗传学、接口问题 发展科学和预防科学中的接口问题。几个统一的元素也 已纳入该方案，包括一个季度研讨会系列和一个年度座谈会， 学生和教职员工可以见面介绍他们的工作，参加反映尖端技术的研讨会 行为-生物医学接口，并与国内和国际声誉的特邀演讲者互动。 该计划包括促进有效的指导，强调专业-科学发展，以及 在项目完成期间和之后对学员进行多维度的跟踪，以评估项目。 该培训计划旨在培养精通以下方面的行为科学家的能力 生物医学科学更有效地为健康障碍、疾病和积极因素的研究做出贡献 健康结果，特别是在预防和发展科学方面。

This application proposes support for a program of interdisciplinary research training that interfaces the behavioral and biomedical sciences, with a cross-cutting theme emphasizing prevention and developmental sciences broadly defined. This pre-doctoral training program draws trainees from three units that are heavily involved in the behavioral sciences: Exercise Science, Epidemiology, and Psychology. Many of the behavioral-sciences faculty mentors are working on health-related research problems that are linked to prevention science, the developmental sciences (broadly conceived from a lifespan perspective), or both. The Behavipral-Biomedical Interface Program (BBIP) is interdisciplinary in scope, including program faculty with appointments in the departments of: Biological Sciences; Communications Sciences & Disorders; Epidemiology & Biostatistics; Exercise Science; Pharmacology, Physiology, & Neuroscience; and Psychology. The BBIP, based in part on flexible training modules, is designed to provide a cohesive, integrated program where students feel connected and have adequate opportunities and venues for interacting with many program faculty and students. This is accomplished, in part, by a modular format to provide students with a cohesive peer group in the initial years of the program, and to cultivate student- faculty interactions across units. Modules cover neurobiology, endocrinology, genetics, interface issues'in developmental sciences, and interface issues in prevention science. Several unifying elements have also been incorporated into the program including a quarterly seminar series and an annual colloquium, where students and faculty can meet to present their work, be exposed to seminars that reflect cutting-edge behavioral-biomedical interface, and interact with invited speakers of national and international reputation. The plan includes promotion of effective mentoring, emphasis on professional-scientific development, and tracking of the trainees during and after program completion on multiple dimensions to evaluate the program. This training program is designed to build capacity with respect to behavioral scientists well versed in biomedical sciences to more effectively contribute to research on health disorders, conditions, and positive health outcomes, especially with regard to prevention and developmental sciences.