Building Interdisciplinary Careers in Women's Health at UC Davis

描述(由申请者提供)：在过去的4年里，加州大学戴维斯分校的BIRCWH项目培养了一批不同学科的妇女健康研究人员，提高了我们大学妇女健康研究的地位。我们现在建议在这一坚实基础上创建下一代BIRCWH计划，进一步提高这一计划的创新力和影响力。加州大学戴维斯分校BIRCWH项目的目标是为女性健康研究人员创造一个学术激励和培养的环境，促进职业发展，并鼓励改变范式的跨学科合作和研究方法。我们将基于我们广受欢迎的课程的最佳实践，其中包括：1)指导研究和职业发展支持，2)核心教学课程，3)为个别学者的需求量身定做的补充教学培训，以及4)BIRCWH的特殊跨学科经验。BIRCWH计划的创新方面包括与其他培训计划相结合的期刊俱乐部和工作进行中会议，每月与风险投资/院长举行早餐会，让BIRCWH导师和学者审查进展情况，以及一年两次的北加州BIRCWH计划研讨会。此次更新的新进展包括我们拟议的BIRCWH导师学院，以优化导师和学者的导师体验，以及将我们的教师导师扩展到更多的校园学科。将支持学者使用我们新的妇女健康研究矩阵方法来开发独特的研究经验，包括四个研究重点领域(神经科学/行为学；肌肉骨骼/衰老；营养和代谢/炎症综合征；以及癌症)，与交叉主题(生命周期的连续性、性别/性别决定因素、健康差异/差异和多样性，以及跨学科研究)交叉，并拥抱预防和治疗的基本方法以及性别和性别差异的生物和行为基础。我们BIRCWH计划的指导价值包括合作和庆祝多样性，加州大学戴维斯分校的传统反映了我们社区的人口结构。正式的评估计划将推动持续改进，以确保我们灵活地回应新的研究方向和技术，以及我们学者和我们所服务的妇女的需求。 公共卫生相关性：加州大学戴维斯分校BIRCWH项目将培养一支训练有素的女性健康研究人员队伍，他们拥有以新的创新方式解决女性健康研究所需的技能和观点。我们的学者和导师将为女性健康研究定义变革性的跨学科方法，使我们能够对性别和性别决定因素的终身连续体、疾病和健康以及缩小健康差距提供新的见解。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Over the past 4 years, the UC Davis BIRCWH program has trained a cadre of diverse interdisciplinary researchers in women's health and raised the stature of women's health research at our university. We now propose to build on this strong foundation to create a next-generation BIRCWH program that will further increase the innovation and impact of this initiative. The goal of the UC Davis BIRCWH program is to create an academically stimulating and nurturing environment for women's health researchers that facilitates career development and encourages paradigm-shifting interdisciplinary collaboration and research approaches. We will build on the best practices of our well-received curriculum which combines: 1) mentored research and career development support, 2) core didactic courses, 3) supplemental didactic training tailored to the individual scholar's needs, and 4) special interdisciplinary BIRCWH experiences. The innovative aspects of our BIRCWH program include journal clubs and work-in progress meetings that are integrated with other training programs, monthly breakfast meetings with the VC/Dean for BIRCWH mentors and scholars to review progress, and a bi-annual symposium of northern California BIRCWH programs. New advances in this renewal include our proposed BIRCWH Mentoring Academy to optimize the mentoring experience for both mentors and scholars, and expansion of our faculty mentors to additional campus disciplines. Scholars will be supported to develop a unique research experience using our new matrix approach to women's health research, with four research focus areas (neurosciences/behavioral; musculoskeletal/aging; nutrition and metabolic/ inflammatory syndromes; and cancer), intersecting with cross-cutting themes (continuum across the lifespan, sex/gender determinants, health disparities/ differences and diversity, and interdisciplinary research), and embracing foundational approaches of prevention and treatment as well as the biological and behavioral bases of sex and gender differences. The guiding values of our BIRCWH program include collaboration and celebration of diversity, traditions at UC Davis reflecting the demographics of our community. A formal evaluation program will drive continuous improvement to ensure that we nimbly respond to new research directions and techniques and the needs of our scholars and the women we serve. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The UC Davis BIRCWH program will create a cadre of well-trained women's health researchers who have the skills and perspectives needed to address women's health research in new and innovative ways. Our scholars and mentors will define transformative interdisciplinary approaches to women's health research, allowing new insights into the lifelong continuum of sex and gender determinants of illness and wellness and reduction of health disparities.