Graduate Training in Demography

描述（由申请人提供）：我们正在申请继续向宾夕法尼亚大学提供NICHD人口学培训补助金。拟设6个博士预科职位。我们不申请博士后职位。我们描述的这个项目延续了宾夕法尼亚大学长期以来在人口统计学培训方面的卓越传统，并得到了NICHD培训补助金的支持。在下一个拨款期，将更好地整合对人口与健康之间关系的理解方面的进展，以及人口学家和其他社会科学家在研究人口健康和福祉方面应对社会、政策和公共卫生挑战的可用方法工具，从而加强该方案。宾夕法尼亚大学人口统计学博士预科课程的主要目的是培养准备在社会人口统计学和人口分析方面发挥主导作用的独立研究人员，包括人口的增长、结构、健康和福祉。这一目标是通过以下途径实现的：(1)人口统计学和相关学科的方法、理论方法和经验实质方面的强化教学；（ii）逐步将学生纳入教师的研究活动，最终发展为独立研究。实现这一目标的核心是让学生了解人口统计学家的工作方式。人口学代表了一种研究社会现象的方法，这种方法在重要的维度上有别于社会科学中的其他方法，与美国和国外的社会和卫生政策相关，并且处于几个学科的联系之中。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We are requesting a continuation of the NICHD training grant in demography to the University of Pennsylvania. Six pre-doctoral positions are proposed. We are not requesting postdoctoral positions. The program we describe continues Penn's longstanding tradition of excellence in training in demography with support through a NICHD training grant. For the next grant period the program is enhanced by a better integration of advances in the understanding of the relationship between populations and health and in the methodological tools available for demographers and other social scientists to address the social, policy and public health challenges in the study of health and well-being of populations. The principal aim of the demography pre-doctoral program at the University of Pennsylvania is to train independent researchers who are prepared to play leading roles in social demography and population analysis, including the growth, structure, health and well-being of human populations. This goal is achieved through (i) intensive instruction in the methods, theoretical approaches, and empirical substance of demography and allied disciplines; and (ii) progressive incorporation of students into faculty research activities that will eventually branch into independent research. Central to the achievement of this goal is exposure of students to the demographer's modus operandi. Demography represents an approach to studying social phenomena that is-in important dimensions-distinct from other approaches in the social sciences, is relevant to social and health policies in the U.S. and abroad, and lies at the nexus of several disciplines.