Cells to Society (C2s): The Center on Social Disparities and Health

社会细胞​​（C2s）：社会差异与健康中心

• 批准号: 7268021
• 负责人: PATRICIA L CHASE-LANSDALE
• 金额: $ 18.69万
• 依托单位: NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-07-17 至 2011-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7268021
• 关键词: Adult; Affect; Biological; Biological Assay; Biological Markers; Biological Sciences; Cells; Community Surveys; Conceptions; Data; Development; Educational Curriculum; Educational workshop; Elements; Environment; Faculty; Family; Family Study; Family health status; Funding; Goals; Health; Health Status; Human; Instruction; International; Mental Health; Mentors; Methods; Neighborhoods; Personal Satisfaction; Policies; Population; Population Programs; Population Research; Prejudice; Psychological Stress; Research; Research Activity; Research Personnel; Research Project Grants; Sampling; Scientist; Societies; Stereotyping; Stress; Students; Target Populations; Training; Translating; United States National Institutes of Health; Work; base; child well being; health disparity; interdisciplinary approach; interest; population survey; prenatal; racial and ethnic disparities; reproductive function; social; social disparities; socioeconomics

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The three signature themes guiding our research are: social disparities, stress, and health; families, interpersonal relationships, and health; and developmental perspectives on health disparities from conception through adulthood. The goals of our proposed activities are to: (i) become an international locus for information about and training in the use of biomarkers in population research; (ii) expand and strengthen our signature programs of population research; (iii) initiate new types of interdisciplinary, collaborative research projects that span the social and life sciences; (iv) mentor and develop young scientists; (v) increase external funding; and (vi) translate research findings for practice and policy. With regard to biomarkers, C2S faculty would expand their work on development of "field-friendly" methods for assessing biomarkers of human health and development. Key goals are to develop methods for assaying new biomarkers, provide technical assistance for incorporating these methods into national and community surveys, and, through an annual summer workshop, train students and faculty in using and analyzing biomarker data in population surveys. With regard to new research activities, our focus in social disparities and health include cross-national studies of stress and culture, studies of racial and ethnic disparities in the U.S., biologically-based studies of stress and psychological health, and studies of stress and socioeconomic elements of both families and neighborhoods. Our focus on interpersonal relationships and health includes studies of family stress and child well-being, and prejudice and stereotyping in inter-group relations. Our focus on developmental perspectives on health include studies of how prenatal and neo-natal environments affect child well-being and adult health, and developmental influences on adult reproductive function. Consistent throughout our proposed work is the emphasis on population-level health and well-being through the use, where possible, of representative samples from target populations of interest. Our research-based mentoring and curriculum-based instruction will train a new cadre of young researchers whose mastery of both biological and population-based methods will equip them to engage in the kind of integrative, multi- method, interdisciplinary approaches to population health research envisioned by the NIH Roadmap.

描述(由申请人提供)：指导我们研究的三个标志性主题是：社会差异、压力和健康；家庭、人际关系和健康；以及从怀孕到成年对健康差异的发展观点。我们建议的活动的目标是：(I)成为人口研究中使用生物标志物的信息和培训的国际中心；(Ii)扩大和加强我们标志性的人口研究计划；(Iii)启动跨越社会科学和生命科学的新型跨学科、协作研究项目；(Iv)指导和培养青年科学家；(V)增加外部资金；以及(Vi)将研究成果转化为实践和政策。关于生物标记物，C2S教员将扩大他们的工作，开发“现场友好”的方法来评估人类健康和发展的生物标记物。主要目标是开发新的生物标记物分析方法，为将这些方法纳入国家和社区调查提供技术援助，并通过一年一度的暑期讲习班培训学生和教职员工在人口调查中使用和分析生物标记物数据。在新的研究活动方面，我们的重点是社会差异和健康，包括对压力和文化的跨国研究，对美国种族和民族差异的研究，对压力和心理健康的生物学研究，以及对家庭和社区的压力和社会经济因素的研究。我们对人际关系和健康的关注包括对家庭压力和儿童福祉的研究，以及对群体间关系中的偏见和刻板印象的研究。我们的重点是对健康的发展观点的研究，包括产前和新生儿环境如何影响儿童福祉和成人健康，以及发育对成人生殖功能的影响。在我们拟议的工作中，始终强调人口一级的健康和福祉，在可能的情况下，使用来自感兴趣的目标人口的代表性样本。我们以研究为基础的指导和以课程为基础的教学将培养一批年轻的研究人员，他们对生物学和基于人口的方法的掌握将使他们能够从事NIH路线图所设想的人口健康研究的综合、多方法、跨学科的方法。