Berkeley Population Center

摘要/摘要--总体 伯克利人口中心(BPC)现已进入第13个年头，要求续签5年 (以前为R24)，以继续其在人口研究方面的独特贡献。BPC是连接 来自这个大校园的不同学科的人口研究人员。利用这两个 教员专业知识和机构倡议，五个主要研究领域将在 续展期包括现有和既定的正式人口、人口专题领域 健康、生殖健康和艾滋病毒。BPC的新特性是对数据科学和人口统计学的关注，以及 家庭政策。这些方法论和实质性领域共同为 健康状况和结果的决定因素及其与核心人口统计进程的相互依存关系 生育率、迁徙和死亡率。BPC是开发新研究思路和 倡议，这样做的方式是：(A)支持每周的“棕色袋子”午餐会和频繁的迷你-- 允许在合适的网络中接触到多种创新想法的会议 环境；(B)传播关于人口研究机会的信息，如外部 提供资金，要求编写论文、讲习班和培训；(C)大力支持赠款发展。穿过 在试点资助计划中，研究人员有能力尝试和开发研究想法，并提供 研究生参与机会。我们的分支机构来自人口学、公共卫生、经济学、 社会学、公共政策、社会福利等学科。特别是，早期调查人员 欢迎来到BPC，并给予导师支持和财政援助，以促进他们的智力进步 开发和研究活动。附属机构是教职员工，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-包括研究生和本科生-因此 BPC直接和间接地为培训一批新的和多样化的研究人员做出了贡献。BPC还 受益于文理学院和副院长办公室的重大机构支持- 研究大臣(每年59,000美元)与其对预算危机的BPC承诺不相上下，以及 计算和数据中心(D-Lab)、人口学系、公共学院的支持 以及新成立的伯克利数据科学研究所。大量的行政支持由 上大学。在过去的5年里，我们不断增加的拨款证明了我们在生产力方面的成功。 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 在我们的50个教职员工中。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在21世纪应对人口挑战的方式。

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.