Integrated Training in the Population, Behavioral, and Biomedical Sciences

描述（由申请人提供）：加州大学洛杉矶分校提议的新项目将培养行为和社会科学领域的博士生，学习生物医学理论、证据和方法，并指导他们将这些方法整合到健康研究中。目标是培养以人口科学和健康心理学为基础的跨学科调查人员，他们研究人口、社会经济和心理过程影响健康和疾病的复杂途径。该项目是加州大学洛杉矶分校加州人口研究中心（CCPR）和心理学系健康心理学项目的合作项目。CCPR和健康心理学项目在各自领域都是全国顶尖的研究中心。我们要求每年为5名博士预科生提供为期两年的培训。学员将从心理学、社会学、社区卫生科学和经济学的学生中挑选。在第一年，学员将接受精心设计的为期一年的教学培训课程，由生命科学和生物医学学院教授，重点是对健康和疾病至关重要的关键身体系统的结构和功能，以及主要医疗条件的病理生理学。他们还将与两位共同导师制定一项研究计划，其中一位来自行为或人口科学，另一位来自生物医学科学。在第二年，学生将通过一系列的实验室和研究经验来应用他们第一年的课程。到第二年结束时，学员将根据他们的建议完成一个独立的研究项目，由一名生物医学科学教员和一名人口或行为科学教员共同指导，并提交一份论文建议或手稿供发表。在整个实习期间，他们将与教师和客座演讲者一起参加一个专业研讨会，将生物医学知识整合到他们的科学方法中。该项目将由来自人口、行为和生物医学科学的教师团队领导，并由核心教师组成的跨学科委员会监督和支持。为了指导受训者，提供实验室和研究经验，并在教学培训课程中授课，我们从人口、行为、生物医学科学领域招募了一支庞大的杰出教师团队，他们在出版、校外资助和指导方面有着出色的记录，并在跨越传统学科界限的卫生研究合作方面拥有丰富的经验。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The proposed new UCLA program will train predoctoral students from the behavioral and social sciences in biomedical theory, evidence, and methods and mentor them to integrate these approaches into health research. The goal is to train interdisciplinary investigators based in population science and health psychology who examine the complex pathways through which demographic, socioeconomic, and psychological processes influence and are influenced by health and disease. The program is a partnership of the UCLA California Center for Population Research (CCPR) and the Program in Health Psychology in the Department of Psychology. The CCPR and the Program in Health Psychology are top centers nationally for research in their respective areas. We request support for 5 predoctoral trainees per year for two year traineeships. Trainees will be selected from students in psychology, sociology, community health sciences, and economics. In the first year, trainees will take a carefully designed year-long didactic training course taught by life sciences and biomedical faculty focusing on the structure and function of key bodily systems which are critical for health and disease and the pathophysiology of major medical conditions. They will also develop a research proposal with two co-mentors, one from the behavioral or population sciences, and one from the biomedical sciences. In the second year, students will apply their first-year coursework via a sequence of laboratory and research experiences. By the end of their second year, trainees will complete an independent research project based on their proposal, co-mentored by a biomedical science faculty member and a population or behavioral science faculty member, and yielding either a dissertation proposal or a manuscript to be submitted for publication. Throughout the traineeship they will participate in a proseminar with faculty and guest speakers that integrate the biomedical knowledge into their scientific approaches. The program will be led by a team of faculty from the population, behavioral, and biomedical sciences that will be overseen and supported by a similarly interdisciplinary committee of Core Faculty. To mentor trainees, provide laboratory and research experiences, and lecture in the didactic training course, we have recruited a large team of distinguished faculty from the population, behavioral, biomedical sciences with outstanding records of publication, extramural funding, and mentoring, as well as extensive experience in collaboration on health research across traditional disciplinary boundaries. Relevance: The program will benefit public health by producing new interdisciplinary investigators who through their research will help to determine the pathways by which individual social, economic, and psychological factors influence and are influenced by health and disease. By virtue of this training, this new cohort of investigators will be better able to identify interdisciplinary approaches to intervention for the benefit of public health in the United States.