Berkeley Population Center

摘要/摘要-总体 伯克利人口中心（BPC），现在在其第13个年头的运作，要求为期五年的续约 （以前是R24）继续在人口研究中做出独特贡献。BPC是一个连接 来自这个大校园不同学科的人口研究人员。同时利用 教师的专业知识以及机构的举措，五个主要研究领域将在支持 包括现有的和既定的专题领域，即正规人口、 健康、生殖健康和艾滋病毒。BPC的新功能是专注于数据科学和人口统计学， 家庭政策。这些方法和实质性领域合在一起，为《公约》提供了基本知识， 健康状况和结果的决定因素及其与核心人口统计过程的相互依存性 生育率、迁移率和死亡率。BPC是一个资源中心，用于开发新的研究思路， （a）支持每周举办“自带午餐”研讨会，并经常举办小型研讨会， 会议，允许接触到多样性，以创新的想法在一个适宜的网络 （B）传播关于人口研究机会的信息，例如外部研究机会， 供资、征稿、讲习班和培训;（c）大力支持发展赠款。通过 试点补助金计划，研究人员有能力尝试和发展研究思路，并提供 研究生的参与机会。我们的附属机构来自人口统计学，公共卫生，经济学， 社会学、公共政策、社会福利等学科。特别是，早期研究人员 欢迎加入BPC，并给予指导支持和财政援助，以提高他们的知识水平 发展和研究活动。附属机构是教师，但该中心的受益者包括 博士后研究员，人口研究人员和学生-研究生和本科生-这样， BPC直接或间接地促进了新的和多样化的研究人员队伍的培训。BPC也 受益于信件和科学学院以及副校长办公室的重要机构支持， 尽管存在预算危机，但研究大臣（每年59，000美元）仍与其对BPC的承诺相匹配， 来自计算和数据中心（D-Lab），人口学系，公共学院的支持 健康，以及新的伯克利数据科学研究所。大量的行政支助由 大学在过去的5年里，我们已经证明了我们的生产力的成功，我们不断增长的赠款证明 投资组合（PDB资助的赠款从2012财年的60万美元增加到2017财年的236万美元）和口径 我们50个附属学院的BPC准备继续为创新和跨学科做出贡献 人口研究将改变我们如何应对21世纪世纪的人口挑战。

SUMMARY/ABSTRACT – OVERALL The Berkeley Population Center (BPC), now in its 13th year of operations, requests a five-year renewal (previously an R24) to continue its unique contributions in population research. BPC is a hub connecting population researchers in different disciplines from across this large campus. Taking advantage of both the faculty expertise as well as institutional initiatives, the five Primary Research Areas to be supported in the renewal period include the existing and well-established thematic areas of Formal Demography, Population Health, and Reproductive Health and HIV. New to BPC is a focus on Data Science and Demography, and Family Policy. Collectively these methodological and substantive areas contribute basic knowledge to the determinants of health status and outcomes, and their interdependence with the core demographic processes of fertility, migration and mortality. BPC is a resource center for the development of new research ideas and initiatives, doing so with its (a) support for weekly `brown bag' luncheon seminars and frequent mini- conferences that allow for exposure to a multiplicity to innovative ideas within a congenial networking environment; (b) dissemination of information about opportunities in population research such as external funding, calls for papers, workshops and training; and (c) substantial support for grant development. Through the pilot grant program, researchers have the ability to try out and develop research ideas, and to provide graduate students participatory opportunities. Our affiliates are from Demography, Public Health, Economics, Sociology, Public Policy, Social Welfare and other disciplines. In particular, early stage investigators are welcomed to BPC and given mentored support and financial assistance to advance their intellectual development and research activity. The affiliates are faculty yet the beneficiaries of the Center include postdoctoral fellows, population researchers, and students – both graduate and undergraduate – such that the BPC contributes directly and indirectly to the training of a new and diverse cohorts of researchers. BPC also benefits from significant institutional support from the College of Letters and Science and the Office of the Vice- Chancellor of Research ($59,000 annually) matching its commitment to BPC despite a budget crisis, as well as support from the computing and data center (D-Lab), the Department of Demography, the School of Public Health, and the new Berkeley Institute for Data Science. Substantial administrative support is provided by the university. In the past 5 years we have proven success in our productivity as evidenced by our growing grant portfolio (PDB-funded grants increased from $0.6 million in FY2012 to $2.36 million in FY2017) and the caliber of our 50 faculty affiliates. BPC is poised to continue its contribution to innovative and interdisciplinary population research that will transform how we address population challenges in the 21st century.