Psychosocial Determinants and Biological Pathway to Healthy Aging (Pathways)

 描述(由申请人提供)：我们提出了一个新的培训计划，“心理社会决定因素和健康老龄化的生物途径”(路径)，建立在我们在博士前和博士后培训方面的既定记录的基础上。与NIH鼓励跨学科培训和研究的目标一致，路径计划侧重于行为、社会和生物研究的结合。此外，我们的培训计划旨在满足一系列关键的培训需求，这些需求已被确定为NIA行为和社会研究部门2013年BSR审查委员会报告的核心。具体地说，这份报告确定了高度优先的领域，“阐明了社会、心理、经济和行为因素影响中老年人健康的途径”。路径培训计划将通过为研究生和博士后学者提供尖端培训来填补NIA投资组合中的一个独特的利基市场，这些学生和博士后学者专注于了解共同决定健康和不健康衰老的行为、心理社会和生物机制之间的联系。我们每年招聘2名博士后实习生和2名博士后。每名实习生将参加该计划约两年。此外，隶属于培训计划的学术单位和宾夕法尼亚州立大学负责研究的副总统办公室承诺为路径T32培训活动提供总计831,950美元的实际美元匹配支持。这项支持将支付培训计划期间额外6个博士前实习生的学费和津贴费用。在拟议的5年资助期内，综合供资来源将总共培训1名博士前学员和8名博士后学员。将为受训者提供必要的基础培训，以整合广泛的心理学和生物学概念，并在他们自己的研究中使用先进的数据获取和分析方法。此外，所有受训人员都将接受研究伦理方面的指导，以及与服务不足的少数群体一起进行研究的方法。这一培训计划的教职员工在成年和晚年的健康各个方面都有积极的研究计划和资助，并有很好的合作和指导记录。我们的预期结果是培养一支学者队伍，他们将继续从事探索成年和老年应激与健康之间的接口的研究，并将基本和新兴方法学方法的知识带到他们的研究中，以解决这一领域的关键问题所需的多维和纵向数据类型。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We propose a new training program, "Psychosocial Determinants and Biological Pathways to Healthy Aging" (PATHWAYS), that builds on our established track record in pre-doctoral and post-doctoral training. Consistent with goals of NIH to encourage interdisciplinary training and research, the PATHWAYS program focuses on the junction of behavioral, social and biological research. In addition, our training program is positioned to meet a critical set of training needs that have been identified as central to NIA's Division of Behavioral and Social Research "2013 BSR Review Committee Report." Specifically, this report identified the high priority area that "illuminates the pathways by which social, psychological, economic and behavioral factors affect health in middle-aged and older adults." The PATHWAYS training program will fill a unique niche in the NIA portfolio by providing cutting-edge training to graduate students and post-doctoral scholars who are focused on understanding the linkages among behavioral, psychosocial and biological mechanisms that codetermine healthy and unhealthy aging. We request positions for 2 new pre-doctoral trainees and 2 new post-doctoral trainees per year. Each trainee will be enrolled in the program for approximately 2 years. In addition, academic units affiliated with the training program and the office for Penn State Vice President for Research have committed a combined total of $831,950 in real dollar matching support to the PATHWAYS T32 training activities. This support will cover the tuition and stipend costs for up to an additional 6 pre-doctoral trainee slots over the course of the training program. The combined sources of funding will result in training a total of up to 1 pre-doctoral and 8 postdoctoral trainees throughout the proposed 5 year funding period. Trainees will be provided with the foundational training needed to integrate a broad range of psychosocial and biological concepts, and to use advanced data acquisition and analysis methods in their own research. Additionally, all trainees will receive instruction in research ethics and in approaches to research with underserved minorities. Faculty for this training program have active and funded research programs on various aspects of health in adulthood and later life and a strong record of collaboration and mentorship. Our expected outcome is to train a cadre of scholars who will go on to careers in research that explore the interface of stres and health in adulthood and old age, and who bring to their research knowledge of basic and emerging methodological approaches for addressing the types of multidimensional and longitudinal data needed to tackle key issues in this field.