Society for Prevention Research Annual Meetings, 2012-2016

申请者描述(申请人提供)：本申请申请R13资金，用于支持预防研究学会(SPR)年会，以及与年会密切相关的活动，为期五年(2012-2016)。特别方案审查成立于1991年，目的是改进预防科学，不是在单一的健康领域，而是在身心健康和社会福利的所有方面。这一目标及其潜在的好处反映在对SPR 700多名成员的研究中。这项研究主要关注各种负面后果的流行病学、病因和预防，包括使用药物、酒精、烟草和其他物质、艾滋病毒/艾滋病和性传播疾病、暴力和肥胖。此外，成员的研究侧重于促进健康结果，包括与孕产妇、婴儿和儿童健康、心理健康、社会/情绪发展和学业成就有关的问题。这项由SPR成员进行并在年会上提交的研究与《2020年健康人》、《美国国立卫生研究院传播与实施研究培训研究所》、《全国儿童肥胖研究合作计划》以及《2011财年跨美国国立卫生研究院艾滋病毒相关研究计划》概述的目标和战略高度相关。例如，在概述的艾滋病毒/艾滋病具体目标方面，专题演讲包括与以下方面有关的研究：1)通过减少艾滋病毒相关危险行为和增加保护性行为来预防艾滋病毒传播和感染的行为、社会、环境和经济干预措施的经验性发展、评估和传播，包括实施研究；2)对影响艾滋病毒相关风险和保护因素的决定因素、过程和文化背景问题的研究；3)改进艾滋病毒研究中行为和社会科学方法的质量。目前申请的具体目标是建立在预防科学领域的进展、以往的年度会议、特别方案审议委员会和工作组的工作以及特别方案审议五年战略规划进程的基础上的。这些具体目标是：(1)利用年会进一步发展一个中央综合科学论坛，以交流预防研究和相关公共卫生领域的新概念、新方法和新成果；(2)通过聚集来自多个学科和实质性领域的研究人员，促进药物滥用和艾滋病毒/艾滋病预防科学的发展，以确保NIH各研究所的新知识、尖端方法和创新被纳入NIDA和艾滋病毒/艾滋病研究人员的研究范围；(3)通过绘制预防科学进展图(MAPS)特别工作组，产生、促进和支持预防科学创新；(4)利用年会，通过培训、职业发展和领导力发展，支持下一代预防科学家的发展；。(5)加强年会、战略规划与报告委员会和地图工作组工作产生的科学发展的影响范围、效益和影响，从而确保年会上出现的尖端科学发展被广泛传播给更多和更不同的受众。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application requests R13 funding to support the Annual Meeting of the Society for Prevention Research (SPR), and activities closely related to the Annual Meeting, for five years (2012-2016). The SPR was established in 1991 with the goal of improving the science of prevention, not within a single health domain, but within all aspects of physical and mental health and social well-being. This goal and its potential benefits are reflected in the research of the more than 700 members of SPR. This research focuses largely on epidemiology, etiology and prevention of a variety of negative outcomes including the use of drugs, alcohol, tobacco, and other substances, HIV/AIDS and sexually transmitted disease, violence, and obesity. In addition, members' research focuses on the promotion of healthy outcomes, including issues related to maternal, infant, and child health, mental health, social/emotional development, and academic achievement. The research conducted by SPR members and presented at the Annual Meeting is highly relevant to objectives and strategies outlined in Healthy People 2020; NIH Training Institute on Dissemination and Implementation Research; the National Collaborative on Childhood Obesity Research; and the FY2011 Trans- NIH Plan for HIV-Related Research. For example, with regard to the HIV/AIDS specific objectives outlined, presentations include research related to: 1) the empirical development, evaluation, and diffusion of behavioral, social, environmental and economic interventions to prevent HIV transmission and acquisition by reducing HIV-related risk behaviors and increasing protective behaviors, including implementation research; 2) study of the determinants, processes, and cultural contextual issues influencing HIV-related risk and protective factors; and 3) improvement of the quality of behavioral and social science methodology in HIV research. The Specific Aims of the current application build on the progress in the field of prevention science, prior annual meetings, work of SPR committees and workgroups and on the SPR's five-year strategic planning process. These specific aims are: (1) to use the Annual Meeting to develop further a centrally integrated scientific forum for the exchange of new concepts, methods, and results from prevention research and related public health fields; (2) to advance the science of drug abuse and HIV/AIDS prevention by bringing together researchers from multiple disciplines and substantive areas to ensure that new knowledge, cutting-edge methods and innovation from across the NIH institutes are integrated into the research portfolios of NIDA and HIV/AIDS researchers; (3) to generate, promote, and support innovation in prevention science through Mapping Advances in Prevention Science (MAPS) Task Forces; (4) to use the Annual Meeting to support the development of the next generation of prevention scientists through training, career building, and leadership development; (5) to enhance the reach, benefits, and impact of the scientific developments emanating from the Annual Meetings and from the work of the SPR committees and MAPS Task Forces, and thereby to ensure that the cutting-edge scientific developments that emerge at the Annual Meeting are widely disseminated to a larger and more varied audience.