Interdisciplinary Research Training on Health and Aging

项目摘要/摘要 拟议方案“公共卫生与老龄化跨学科研究培训” 寻求将目前的奖项延续五年，该奖项最初于2008年获得资助， 并于2014年4月续签。该计划将特别侧重于培训机会 老年人不良健康后果的社会和行为决定因素及其 通过通常认为的生物机制进行调解或与之相互作用 与衰老相关的健康变化有关。这种关注的合理性在于 这项研究的潜力在于发现预防、管理和 治疗与衰老相关的慢性健康状况及其功能后果。这个 该计划在社会流行病学方面定义了其学科基础，同时强调 从其他学科角度与学术活动合作，包括其他 公共卫生科学、社会科学、生物科学和医学科学。 本申请申请资助和培训博士后学员共8人，其中2人 在该计划的头4年中，每年都会招募新的实习生。该计划将是 位于密歇根大学公共学院流行病学系 健康。流行病学系提供了异常丰富的知识分子 公共卫生和老龄化方面的跨学科培训方案的环境，由于 教职员与香港大学大量研究所和中心的联系 密歇根大学。培训计划包括15名导师，他们都有很好的基础 研究和培训记录包括各种学科背景。这个 培训计划由结构化的教学和指导计划组成， 以下相互关联的部分：1)有指导的研究活动；2)在 老龄化和相关主题的流行病学，以及参与公共卫生和 老龄化研究研讨会；以及3)参与其他培训和充实机会 在密歇根大学有售。

Project Summary/Abstract The proposed program, “Interdisciplinary Research Training in Public Health and Aging” seeks a five-year continuation of the current award, which was funded originally in 2008, and renewed in April 2014. The program will focus specifically on training opportunities in the social and behavioral determinants of adverse health outcomes in older age, and their mediation through or interaction with the biological mechanisms that are commonly thought to be associated with aging-related changes in health. The rational for this focus lies in the potential of this research to identify new opportunities for the prevention, management and treatment of aging-related chronic health conditions and their functional consequences. The program defines its disciplinary foundation in social epidemiology, while emphasizing collaboration with scholarly activity from other disciplinary perspectives, including other public health sciences, social sciences, biological sciences and medical sciences. This application requests funds to support and train a total of 8 pre-doctoral trainees, with 2 new trainees being recruited each of the first 4 years of the program. The program will be located in the Department of Epidemiology of the University of Michigan School of Public Health. The Department of Epidemiology provides an exceptionally rich intellectual environment for an inter-disciplinary training program in public health and aging, due to the interconnections of its faculty with a large number of Research Institutes and Centers at the University of Michigan. The training program includes 15 mentors with well-established research and training records encompassing a variety of disciplinary backgrounds. The training program consists of a structured program of teaching and mentoring with the following inter-related components: 1) mentored research activity; 2) course work in the epidemiology of aging and related subject matters, and participation in public health and aging research seminars; and 3) participation in other training and enrichment opportunities available at the University of Michigan.