Building Interdisciplinary Careers in Women's Health at UC Davis

描述（由申请人提供）：在过去的4年中，加州大学戴维斯分校BIRCWH计划培养了一批女性健康方面的跨学科研究人员，并提高了我们大学女性健康研究的地位。我们现在建议在这一坚实的基础上创建下一代BIRCWH计划，以进一步提高该计划的创新性和影响力。加州大学戴维斯分校BIRCWH计划的目标是为女性健康研究人员创造一个学术激励和培养环境，促进职业发展，鼓励范式转变的跨学科合作和研究方法。我们将建立在我们广受欢迎的课程的最佳实践之上，该课程结合了：1）指导研究和职业发展支持，2）核心教学课程，3）针对个别学者需求的补充教学培训，以及4）特殊的跨学科BIRCWH经验。我们的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展会议，每月与VC/院长的早餐会议，BIRCWH导师和学者审查进展情况，以及北方加州BIRCWH计划的两年一度的研讨会。此次更新的新进展包括我们提议的BIRCWH导师学院，以优化导师和学者的指导体验，并将我们的教师导师扩展到其他校园学科。学者将得到支持，以发展一个独特的研究经验，使用我们的新矩阵方法，以妇女的健康研究，与四个研究重点领域（神经科学/行为;肌肉骨骼/衰老;营养和代谢/炎症综合征;与交叉主题相互交叉（贯穿整个生命周期的连续体、性/性别决定因素、健康差异/差异和多样性以及跨学科研究），并接受预防和治疗的基本方法以及性和性别差异的生物和行为基础。我们的BIRCWH计划的指导价值观包括合作和庆祝多样性，传统在加州大学戴维斯分校反映了我们社区的人口统计。一个正式的评估计划将推动持续改进，以确保我们灵活地应对新的研究方向和技术以及我们的学者和我们所服务的妇女的需求。

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.