Optimizing Health in Childhood: Interdisciplanary Training in Health Development

描述(由申请人提供)：这一健康发展科学(ITSHD)跨学科培训计划的首要目标是让护士科学家了解生物学与社会和环境背景如何在童年期间交叉影响生命过程中的健康发展，并利用这些知识制定严格的跨学科研究计划，以优化健康。这一培训计划的重点是儿童的健康发展，广义上包括从怀孕到青春期的阶段。ITSHD是在两个基于理论的著名方法的工作基础上提出的变革性框架指导的：Halfon和Hochstein的生命过程健康发展(LCHDF)框架，以及Shonkoff和哈佛大学健康儿童中心的同事提出的生态生物发展框架(EBDF)。这一框架改变了卫生发展的概念，其重点是生命过程中的健康轨迹，并整合了个人和公共卫生的健康生产模式。这一跨学科培训计划的目标是：i)招募和留住各种合格的受训人员，特别是学士学位和第二学位课程的学生。二)培养受训人员在儿童时期(即从受孕到青春期)的健康发展科学领域进行严格的研究。三)培养受训人员在跨学科研究团队中开发和实施儿童伦理健康研究。四)培训学员，使他们能够成功地将卫生发展科学转化为将改善儿童健康的临床实践和卫生政策干预措施。在培训期间，将支持10名博士前学生。其目标是招收一半的硕士研究生和一半的第二学位或学士学位后的学生。硕士后实习生为期2年；本科以上和第二学位实习生为期3年。拟议的培训计划建立在俄亥俄州立大学护理学院相当强的基础上，包括在获得个人F31奖项方面的出色记录，与全国儿童医院、俄亥俄州立大学儿科和社会学系研究人员的良好跨学科关系。丰富的机会包括由健康科学研究中心提供的既定跨学科研讨会项目，以及由护理学院主办的针对干预性研究和将研究转化为实践的国家研讨会。研究培训将通过制定和执行个性化计划来完成，其中包括课程作业、参加研讨会以及参与项目教员的跨学科资助研究。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The overarching objective of this interdisciplinary training program in the science of health development (ITSHD) is to prepare nurse scientists to understand how biology and social and environmental contexts intersect during childhood to influence life course health development and to use this knowledge to develop rigorous interdisciplinary programs of research to optimize health. The focus of this training program is on health development in children, broadly defined to include the period from conception through adolescence. The ITSHD is guided by a transformative framework based in the work of two prominent theory- based approaches: the Life Course Health Development (LCHDF) framework by Halfon and Hochstein, and the ecobiodevelopmental framework (EBDF) by Shonkoff and colleagues at Harvard's Healthy Child Center. This framework transforms how health development is conceptualized by its focus on life course health trajectories and integrates the health production models from individual and public health. The objectives of this interdisciplinary training program are to: i) Recruit and retain diverse and qualified trainees wit special emphasis on students in baccalaureate and second degree programs. ii) Prepare trainees to conduct rigorous research within the scientific area of health development during childhood (i.e., the period from conception through adolescence). iii) Prepare trainees to develop and implement ethical health research with children within interdisciplinary research teams. iv) Prepare trainees to successfully translate the science of health development into clinical practice and health policy interventions that will improve child health. Ten predoctoral students will be supported over the training period. The target is to admit half as post-masters students and half as second-degree or post-baccalaureate students. Post masters trainees will be supported for 2 years; post-baccalaureate and second degree trainees for 3 years. The proposed training plan builds on considerable strengths within the OSU College of Nursing that includes an exceptional track record in receipt of individual F31 awards, superb interdisciplinary relationships with researchers at Nationwide Children's Hospital, the OSU departments of pediatrics and sociology. Enrichment opportunities include established interdisciplinary seminar programs offered by research centers in the health sciences and national workshops addressing interventional research and translating research into practice hosted by the College of Nursing. Research training will be accomplished through the development and execution of individualized plans that include coursework, attendance at seminars, and the involvement in interdisciplinary funded research of program faculty.