Multidisciplinary Training in Population

描述（由申请人提供）：本提案是为约翰霍普金斯大学人口领域的四名博士预科生申请国家研究服务奖（NRSA）支持的请求。三个系将管理该奖项：公共卫生学院的人口与家庭健康科学系和文理学院的社会学与经济学系。在上一次赠款所涉期间，11名受训人员能够从其本国部门获得他们所选择学科的坚定方向，同时也在人口研究的广泛方法和实质性领域受到严格训练。这种训练是通过课程作业、参加教员研究、参加跨学科的人口研究讨论会以及可能同样重要的与许多国家人口领域的学员进行密集的互动来完成的，这种互动使他们接触到关于人口问题和前景的许多不同观点。来自PFHS，社会学和经济学的学生之间的互动是培训计划的额外好处。后一个系的学生被更密切地吸引到人口领域，特别是在人口与健康之间建立联系。培训的必修课程包括：人口变化原理；三门人口统计学方法课程、贯穿一生的健康与发展课程、一门研究伦理课程和人口研究研讨会，都是目前培训方案的一部分。此外，每个学生都需要根据自己的研究领域选择一门生物课程。每位学员还必须满足其他院系的博士课程要求。参与的教师拥有广泛的校外研究资助组合，大致可以分为四个实质性领域：1)性与生殖健康；2)青少年健康和向成年的过渡；3)贫困和不平等；4)老龄化和死亡率。在过去的五年中，学员已经融入并为这项研究事业做出了贡献，培训教师和学员以及其他学生之间的大量联合出版物证明了这一点。这笔资金的继续将使人口领域的另一批潜在领导者能够与教师合作，开始建立他们在人口领域的职业生涯。导演是斯坦·贝克尔教授，培训委员会由安德鲁·切尔林、罗伯特·莫菲特、南·斯通和艾米·徐克组成。该委员会每年将协助选拔学员，并对项目进行全面指导。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal is a request for National Research Service Award (NRSA) support for four predoctoral trainees in population at the Johns Hopkins University. Three departments will administer the award: Population and Family Health Science in the School of Public Health and Sociology and Economics in the School of Arts and Sciences. In the period covered by the previous grant, eleven trainees have been able to acquire a firm orientation in their chosen disciplines from their home department, while also being rigorously trained in the broad methodological and substantive areas of population studies. This training is accomplished through course work, participation in faculty research, participation in interdisciplinary population research seminars, and-perhaps of equal importance-intensive interaction with fellow trainees in population from many countries that exposes them to many different perspectives on population problems and prospects. The interaction among students from PFHS, Sociology, and Economics is an additional benefit of the training program. Students from the latter departments are drawn more closely into the population field-and, particularly, into making the connection between population and health. Required courses for the traineeship include: Principles of Population Change; a sequence of three demographic methods courses, Health and Development across the Life Course, a research ethics course, and the population research seminar, all a part of the current training program. In addition, a biology course selected by each student according to her/his research area is required. Each trainee must meet other departmental course requirements for the doctorate as well. Participating faculty have a broad portfolio of extramural research grants that can be roughly organized into four substantive areas: 1) sexual and reproductive health; 2) adolescent health and the transition to adulthood; 3) poverty and inequality; 4) aging and mortality. Over the past five years, trainees have been integrated into and made contributions to this research enterprise, as evidenced by the large number of joint publications between training faculty and trainees and other students. The continuation of this funding will allow another group of potential leaders in the field of population to work with the faculty and begin to build their careers in population. The director is Professor Stan Becker working with a training committee composed of Andrew Cherlin, Robert Moffitt, Nan Astone and Amy Tsui. The committee will assist with selection of trainees each year and give overall guidance for the program.