Interdisciplinary Training in Nutritional and Population Health Sciences

营养与人口健康科学跨学科培训

• 批准号: 8725140
• 负责人: Ezra S. Susser
• 金额: $ 8.26万
• 依托单位: COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-08-01 至 2016-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8725140
• 关键词: Health Sciences; Nutritional; Training; population health

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal requests support for a new, interdisciplinary post-doctoral training program at Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC). The program will be led by the Institute of Human Nutrition (IHN) and the Department of Epidemiology (EPI), and will be co-directed by Dr. Debra Wolgemuth (IHN) and Dr. Ezra Susser (EPI). The proposed mentors are well-funded and well-published investigators with considerable experience in training Masters and predoctoral students and postdoctoral fellows. A major theme of this training program is to train investigators with translational skills applicable to defining the effects of nutrients and nutrition early in the lifecycle on health outcomes later in life. The proposed program will capitalize on the unique strengths of these two partners within CUMC relevant to this theme: i) basic research in nutritional and metabolic biology in the IHN, and ii) population health science in EPI. The goal of the program is to provide postdoctoral training for research scientists with doctorate or equivalent degrees in a basic science (usually nutritional science), medicine, or in a population health science (usually epidemiology) through didactic and research experience in the complementary discipline. During the minimum two-year training period, the candidates will pursue course work and concomitant research projects in the complementary discipline under the direction of a mentor and co-mentor from each field. The trainees will have the opportunity to obtain an MS degree in the complementary discipline as part of their training. The trainees will retain their original disciplinary focus in basic science or population health science, but their training in the complementary discipline will facilitate engagement in interdisciplinary research which requires partners from both fields, and will make this interdisciplinary research much more effective. Thus trainees of the program will be uniquely prepared to enter translational research environments where bridging disciplines is an essential requirement for cutting edge research to enhance human health.

描述（由申请人提供）：该提案请求支持哥伦比亚大学医学中心（CUMC）的新的，跨学科的博士后培训计划。该计划将由人类营养研究所（IHN）和流行病学系（EPI）领导，并由Debra Wolgemuth博士（IHN）和Ezra Susser博士（EPI）共同指导。拟议中的导师是资金丰富且发表良好的调查员，在培训硕士和专业学生和博士后研究员方面拥有丰富的经验。该培训计划的一个主要主题是培训调查人员的转化技能，可用于定义生命周期早期营养和营养对健康结果的影响。拟议的计划将利用与此主题相关的CUMC中这两个伙伴的独特优势：I）IHN营养和代谢生物学的基础研究，以及II）EPI中的人口健康科学。该计划的目的是通过补充学科中的教学和研究经验为基础科学（通常是营养科学），医学或人口健康科学（通常是流行病学）中的博士学位或同等学位的研究科学家提供博士学位培训。在至少两年的培训期间，候选人将在每个领域的导师和联合学的指导下，在互补纪律中从事课程工作和伴随的研究项目。学员将有机会在培训中获得互补学科的MS学位。学员将保留其最初的纪律重点在基础科学或人口健康科学上，但是他们在补充学科的培训将有助于参与跨学科研究，这需要两个领域的伙伴，并使这项跨学科研究更加有效。因此，该计划的受训者将做出独特的准备，以进入翻译研究环境，在这些研究环境中，桥接学科是尖端研究以增强人类健康的重要要求。