Building Interdisciplinary Careers in Women's Health at UC Davis

描述（由申请人提供）：在过去的4年里，加州大学戴维斯分校BIRCWH项目培养了一批不同学科的妇女健康研究人员，提高了我校妇女健康研究的地位。我们现在提议在这个坚实的基础上创建下一代BIRCWH项目，以进一步增加这一倡议的创新和影响。加州大学戴维斯分校BIRCWH项目的目标是为女性健康研究人员创造一个学术激励和培养的环境，促进职业发展，鼓励范式转换的跨学科合作和研究方法。我们将以我们广受欢迎的课程的最佳实践为基础，这些课程结合了：1)指导研究和职业发展支持，2)核心教学课程，3)根据学者个人需求量身定制的补充教学培训，以及4)特殊的跨学科BIRCWH经验。我们的BIRCWH项目的创新之处包括与其他培训项目相结合的期刊俱乐部和工作进展会议，BIRCWH导师和学者每月与VC/院长举行早餐会议，以审查进展情况，以及一年两次的北加州BIRCWH项目研讨会。这一更新的新进展包括我们提议的BIRCWH指导学院，以优化导师和学者的指导经验，并将我们的教师导师扩展到其他校园学科。学者们将得到支持，利用我们新的矩阵方法开发独特的研究经验，以妇女健康研究，有四个研究重点领域(神经科学/行为；肌肉骨骼/衰老；营养和代谢/炎症综合征；和癌症)，交叉交叉的主题（整个生命周期的连续性，性别/性别决定因素，健康差异/差异和多样性，以及跨学科研究），并包括预防和治疗的基本方法，以及性别和性别差异的生物学和行为基础。我们的BIRCWH项目的指导价值包括合作和多样性的庆祝，加州大学戴维斯分校的传统反映了我们社区的人口结构。一个正式的评估计划将推动持续改进，以确保我们灵活地响应新的研究方向和技术，以及我们的学者和我们所服务的女性的需求。

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.