Adolescent Research in Community Postdoctoral Training Program

 描述（由申请人提供）：这个博士后培训计划，题为“青少年研究在社区”（ARC），旨在培养新一代的青少年健康研究人员（卫生专业人员和博士生）进行跨学科，翻译，社区合作研究解决青少年健康的优先事项概述了健康的人2020年，特别是在健康和医疗保健的差距。仅次于婴儿期，青春期是整个生命过程中最具活力的发展时期，在从童年到成年的过渡过程中，涉及生物、关系和社会发展的复杂相互作用。因此，增加致力于在社会生态背景下了解青少年发展的研究人员数量，改善青少年的健康和社会轨迹，并将研究转化为政策和实践，可能会对国家的整体健康产生深远影响。研究员将接受培训，在以社区为基础的环境中的新的研究方法，与弱势青年群体进行研究的道德，参与性利益攸关方的参与，并将研究转化为宣传和政策。ARC计划将确定高素质的申请人（每年三名），重点是少数民族学员，并为他们提供量身定制的教学培训计划和指导研究经验，重点是发展翻译技能，社区合作研究与了解青少年在社会生态背景下的发展和改善青少年健康。匹兹堡大学有许多优势，以确保这一计划的成功。首先，ARC项目利用了儿科、精神病学、家庭医学、妇产科、内科、公共卫生学院、护理学院、社会工作学院以及兰德公司之间现有的青少年研究合作的教师。其次，由教师领导的许多联邦资助的研究提供了丰富的跨领域博士后指导研究经验，涉及青少年心理健康，肥胖，性和生殖健康，暴力预防和药物使用。第三，教学机会提供创新方法的培训，以及健康、健康行为改变和发展行为科学的社会决定因素理论的基础。第四，我们利用优秀的基础设施来招募和留住少数民族和弱势学生。第五，我们的教师在领导NIH资助的培训项目的经验将告知ARC计划。最后，ARC计划有机构的支持，高度合作的研究环境，并承诺社区合作伙伴需要培训下一代的青少年健康研究人员，以更好地了解途径，社会背景因素可能会阻碍或促进青少年健康，并制定有针对性的干预措施，使用理论和证据驱动的方法。在匹兹堡大学，这种优秀的潜在研究员，独特的培训和致力于研究导师的组合将最大限度地提高青少年健康未来领导者的可能性。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant):This post-doctoral training program, titled "Adolescent Research in Community" (ARC), aims to train a new generation of adolescent health researchers (both health professionals and trainees with doctorates) to conduct interdisciplinary, translational, community-partnered research addressing adolescent health priorities outlined in Healthy People 2020, especially disparities in health and health care. Second to infancy, adolescence is the most dynamic developmental period across the life course, involving a complex interplay of biological, relational, and social development in the transition from childhood to adulthood. Thus, increasing the number of researchers committed to understanding adolescent development in a social-ecological context, improving the health and social trajectories of adolescents, and translating research for policy and practice could have profound impact on the nation's overall health. Fellows will receive training in novel research methods in community-based settings, ethics of conducting research with vulnerable youth populations, participatory stakeholder engagement, and translating research for advocacy and policy. The ARC program will identify highly qualified applicants (three per year), with an emphasis on minority trainees, and provide them with a tailored didactic training program and mentored research experience focused on developing skills in translational, community-partnered research relevant to understanding adolescent development in social-ecological context and improving adolescent health. The University of Pittsburgh has many strengths to ensure success of this program. First, the ARC program draws on faculty with existing adolescent research collaborations among departments of Pediatrics, Psychiatry, Family Medicine, Obstetrics- Gynecology, Internal Medicine, School of Public Health, School of Nursing, School of Social Work as well as RAND. Second, the many federally-funded studies led by faculty provide a wealth of cross-cutting postdoctoral mentored research experiences in adolescent mental health, obesity, sexual and reproductive health, violence prevention, and substance use. Third, didactic opportunities provide training in innovative methods and a foundation in theories of social determinants of health, health behavior change, and developmental behavioral science. Fourth, we leverage an outstanding infrastructure for recruiting and retaining minority and disadvantaged students. Fifth, our faculty's experience in leading NIH-funded training programs will inform the ARC program. Finally, the ARC program has the institutional support, highly collaborative research environment, and committed community partners needed to train the next generation of adolescent health researchers to better understand pathways by which social contextual factors may hinder or promote adolescent health and to develop targeted interventions using theory- and evidence-driven approaches. At the University of Pittsburgh, this combination of outstanding potential fellows, unique training, and committed research mentors will maximize the likelihood of producing future leaders in adolescent health.