Nutritional & Behavioral Cancer Prevention in a Multiethnic Population

描述（由申请人提供）：随着人口老龄化，美国的癌症负担不断增加，尽管在一级预防、早期发现和治疗方面有所改善。随着癌症预防的研究越来越复杂，对人口科学多学科培训的需求比以往任何时候都要大。这项培训计划的目的是培养年轻的科学家，他们将阐明癌症的原因，并制定减少癌症发病率和死亡率的策略。这个癌症教育和职业发展计划（CECDP）将侧重于多民族人群的营养流行病学和行为癌症预防。该项目位于夏威夷大学癌症研究中心，将由营养学、行为科学、流行病学和生物统计学等学科的人口研究人员领导，并积极参与人口科学研究。该项目将建立在几个独特资源的基础上，如三个前瞻性队列、访问联盟、为多种族人群设计的营养数据库、夏威夷肿瘤登记处和夏威夷凯撒医疗机构。夏威夷拟议的博士后项目的具体目标是培养博士后在多学科环境中作为独立研究人员，专注于多种族人群的营养流行病学和行为癌症预防；提供生物统计学、营养学、流行病学、行为科学、生物标志物和遗传学等专业课程，用于多民族人群的研究；并在开展跨学科癌症预防研究、设计新的研究项目、撰写拨款提案和手稿方面提供广泛的应用经验。博士后学员将完成一个两到三年的项目，包括多位导师、跨学科研究经验和教育机会。本CECDP的核心要求包括专业课程，提供实践研究经验的轮岗，解决基本研究要求和技能的系列研讨会，研究

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): With an aging population, the burden of cancer in the US keeps increasing despite improvements in primary prevention, early detection, and treatment. As research in cancer prevention has grown in sophistication and complexity, the need for multidisciplinary training in the population sciences is greater than ever. The purpose of this training program is to prepare young scientists who will elucidate the causes of cancer and develop strategies to reduce cancer incidence and mortality. This Cancer Education and Career Development Program (CECDP) will focus on nutritional epidemiology and behavioral cancer prevention in a multiethnic population. The program based at the Cancer Research Center at the University of Hawaii will be led by population researchers representing the disciplines of nutrition, behavioral sciences, epidemiology, and biostatistics and actively engaged in conducting population science research. The program will build on several unique resources, such as three prospective cohorts, access to consortia, a nutritional data base designed for multiethnic populations, the Hawaii Tumor Registry, and Kaiser Permanente Hawaii. The specific aims of the proposed postdoctoral program in Hawaii are to train postdoctoral fellows to function as independent researchers in a multidisciplinary environment focusing on nutritional epidemiology and behavioral cancer prevention in a multiethnic population; to provide a specialized curriculum in biostatistics, nutrition, epidemiology, behavioral sciences, biomarkers, and genetics for research in multiethnic populations; and to offer extensive applied experience in conducting transdisciplinary cancer prevention research, designing new research projects, and writing grant proposals and manuscripts. Postdoctoral trainees will complete a two-to three-year program that will include multiple mentors, transdisciplinary research experiences, and educational opportunities. The core requirements of this CECDP consist of a specialized curriculum, rotations providing practical research experience, a seminar series addressing basic research requirements and skills, research seminars and journal clubs at CRCH, scientific meetings and conferences, formal course work including a degree option at the University of Hawaii, training courses at NCI and other institutions, and a mock grant review. Each trainee will develop individualized education and career development plans based on the prior academic preparation and career goals. The specialized curriculum will include four major components designed as preparation to work with multiethnic study populations: biostatistics, nutrition, behavioral sciences, and biomarker analysis. This research environment, together with the proposed program plan, provides an ideal opportunity to train high-quality collaborative cancer prevention scientists. With increasing ethnic diversity of the population in the United States, skills learned in our postdoctoral training will enable young researchers to explore issues in cancer etiology and survivorship in populations with diverse ethnic backgrounds and to develop interventions that are tailored to individuals with different eating behaviors and cultural norms.