Research Networks in Biodemography and Demography of Aging

对老龄化与健康的研究需要来自多个学科的知识、方法、想法和数据 为学科间的交叉受精提供了很好的机会。但要想实现这一目标， 交叉受精-跨学科交流问题，交叉教授关于老龄化的研究人员 其他领域，并鼓励来自不同领域的知名科学家之间的创新合作 致力于解决衰老问题。 该项目将通过以下具体目标发展研究网络，以应对这些挑战： 具体目标1：举办关于老龄化的正规人口学和生物人口学的培训讲习班 年轻的和新的研究人员在不同的分析和定量的方法老化。 具体目标2：组织催化会议，促进关于老龄化的跨学科合作研究 这涉及到几个广泛的问题--遗传学与行为和社会因素之间的相互作用， 关于社会网络的理论和数据，以及量化和老龄化研究工作的整合 人口遗传学和基因组学、进化和生态遗传学、流行病学和卫生政策。 具体目标3：组织高级讲习班/研讨会，将一小批研究人员聚集在一起 集中关注老龄化研究中的特定问题和数据，使用包括Short在内的各种工具 工作组会议、基于网络的研讨会和讲习班以及其他基于网络的协作工具。 培训讲习班向年轻的和新的研究人员传授关于老龄化的最新科学工作，并提供 链接到已有的调查人员。在其他领域取得成功的催化会议提供了一个激动人心的环境 其中一个小组探索和制定新的跨学科的想法。高级工作坊是 预计将从催化会议中脱颖而出，并通过允许研究人员使用实质性的 对一个问题感兴趣，通过详细的想法和计划进行协作工作。这些活动将 加强老龄化研究，并按照#年的要求在几个新兴领域开展合作研究 在Aoinc.为Emercino行为和社会研究领域提供网络基础设施支持的FOA。

Research on aging and health requires knowledge, methods, ideas and data from multiple disciplines and presents great opportunities for cross-fertilization between disciplines. But there are many challenges to cross-fertilization - communicating questions across disciplines, cross-teaching researchers in aging about Other fields, and stimulating innovative collaborations between established scientists from different fields to work on aging. This project will address these challenges by developing research networks via the following specific aims: Specific Aim 1: Conduct training workshops in the formal demography and biodemography of aging to train young and new investigators in diverse analytical and quantitative approaches to aging. Specific Aim 2: Organize catalysis meetings to stimulate cross-disciplinary collaborative research on aging that deals with several broad questions - the interplay between genetics and behavioral and social factors, theories and data on social networks, and the integration into aging research of work on quantitative and population genetics and genomics, evolutionary and ecological genetics, epidemiology and health policy. Specific Aim 3: Organize advanced workshops/seminars to bring together small groups of researchers to focus intensively on particular questions and data in aging research, using a variety of tools including short working group meetings, web-based seminars and workshops, and other web-based collaborative tools. Training workshops teach young and new researchers about recent scientific work on aging and provide links to established investigators. Catalysis meetings, successful in other fields, provide a stimulating setting in which a small group explores and formulates new cross-disciplinary ideas. Advanced workshops are expected to emerge from catalysis meetings and go beyond them by allowing researchers with substantive interests in a problem to work through in detail ideas and plans for collaborative work. These activities will strengthen research on aging and launch collaborative research in several emerging areas as requested in the FOA on Network Infrastructure Support for Emercino Behavioral and Social Research Areas in Aoinc.