Adolescent Research in Community Postdoctoral Training Program

 描述（由申请人提供）：这个名为“社区青少年研究”（ARC）的博士后培训项目旨在培训新一代青少年健康研究人员（包括卫生专业人员和拥有博士学位的实习生），以开展跨学科、转化、社区合作研究，解决《健康人2020》中概述的青少年健康优先事项，特别是健康和医疗保健方面的差异。继婴儿期之后，青春期是生命历程中最具活力的发展时期，涉及从童年到成年的过渡过程中生物、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、改善青少年的健康和社会轨迹以及将研究转化为政策和实践的研究人员数量可能会对国家的整体健康产生深远的影响。研究员将接受以下方面的培训：以社区为基础的新研究方法、对弱势青年群体进行研究的道德规范、利益相关者的参与以及将研究成果转化为宣传和政策。 ARC 计划将甄别高素质申请者（每年三名），重点关注少数族裔受训者，并为他们提供量身定制的教学培训计划和指导研究经验，重点培养与理解社会生态背景下青少年发展和改善青少年健康相关的转化、社区合作研究技能。匹兹堡大学拥有许多优势来确保该项目的成功。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等部门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的研究经验，涉及青少年心理健康、肥胖、性健康和生殖健康、暴力预防和药物滥用。第三，教学机会提供创新方法的培训以及健康的社会决定因素、健康行为改变和发展行为科学的理论基础。第四，我们利用出色的基础设施来招收和留住少数族裔和弱势学生。第五，我们的教师在领导 NIH 资助的培训项目方面的经验将为 ARC 项目提供信息。最后，ARC 项目拥有机构支持、高度协作的研究环境和忠诚的社区合作伙伴，可以培训下一代青少年健康研究人员，以更好地了解社会背景因素可能阻碍或促进青少年健康的途径，并使用理论和证据驱动的方法制定有针对性的干预措施。在匹兹堡大学，杰出的潜在研究员、独特的培训和忠诚的研究导师的结合将最大限度地提高培养青少年健康领域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.