Training in Sex and Gender Differences Research to Improve Women's Health

 描述(由申请人提供)：宾夕法尼亚州立大学BIRCWH的首要目标是培养一支妇女健康独立调查员队伍，他们精通性别和性别差异和相似之处如何创造机会来改善妇女的健康和福祉。宾夕法尼亚大学BIRCWH学者们将把性别和性别差异作为考虑妇女健康的视角，这与国家卫生研究所和妇女健康研究办公室最近强调的尽可能研究两性/性别是一致的。宾夕法尼亚大学(宾夕法尼亚大学)长期致力于女性健康，将为BIRCWH学者提供无与伦比的跨学科研究机会，专注于美国和国外女性健康的生物医学、社会科学、医疗服务、通信和经济方面的研究。除了由BIRCWH资助机制提供的资金和方案支持外，拟议的计划将稳定地由3名BIRCWH学者(高级博士后研究员或早期初级教员)组成，并得到宾夕法尼亚大学副教务长办公室和医学、护理、兽医和艺术与科学学院的财政和方案支持。宾夕法尼亚大学BIRCWH计划将受益于宾夕法尼亚大学校长艾米·古特曼博士的授权，即创建“一所学校”，鼓励跨学科、校际合作。学者将由咨询委员会和项目/研究主任挑选，并将被分配到来自上述学校、沃顿商学院、安纳伯格通信学院、社会政策与实践学院和伦纳德·戴维斯研究所的教师指导团队，以确保学者们尽可能广泛地了解其妇女健康研究特定领域的影响。除了BIRCWH核心活动之外，学者们还将从整个大学的特殊智力和职业发展机会中受益。成功完成这些目标将培养出擅长合作、跨学科研究的独立调查人员，促进妇女健康方面的开创性进展，而不是渐进式进展。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The overarching goal of the Penn BIRCWH is to develop a cadre of independent investigators in women's health who are sophisticated in their knowledge of how sex and gender differences and similarities create opportunities to improve health and well-being for women. The focus on sex and gender differences as the lens with which the Penn BIRCWH Scholars will consider women's health is consistent with the recent emphasis from the National Institute of Health and the Office of Research on Women's Health to study both sexes/genders when possible. The University of Pennsylvania (Penn) has a long-standing commitment to women's health and will provide BIRCWH Scholars with incomparable opportunities for interdisciplinary research focusing on the biomedical, social science, health services, communications, and economic aspects of women's health in the United States and abroad. The proposed program will have a steady state of 3 BIRCWH Scholars (senior post-doctoral fellows or early junior faculty) with financial and programmatic support from the University of Pennsylvania Office of the Vice Provost for Research and the Schools of Medicine, Nursing, Veterinary Medicine and Arts and Sciences, in addition to that provided by the BIRCWH funding mechanism. The Penn BIRCWH Program will benefit from Penn President Dr. Amy Gutmann's mandate to create "one school", encouraging interdisciplinary, between-school collaborations. Scholars will be chosen by the Advisory Board and Program/Research Directors and will be assigned faculty mentor teams from the above mentioned schools, Wharton School of Business, the Annenberg School of Communications, the School of Social Policy and Practice, and the Leonard Davis Institute, insuring that Scholars understand the implications of their specific area of women's health research in the broadest terms possible. Scholars will benefit from the exceptional intellectual and career development opportunities from across the university, in addition to those included in the BIRCWH Core Activities. Successful completion of these goals will create independent investigators who are skilled in collaborative, interdisciplinary research, fostering ground- breaking instead of incremental advances in women's health.