The Colorado Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women's Health Program

项目摘要 此申请是为科罗拉多建筑跨学科研究职业生涯提供第四个周期的资金 妇女健康研究(BIRCWH)K12计划，成立于2007年。在过去的15年里，我们经历了 该计划有21名学者，其中18人仍在学术医学领域，并得到了资助。总而言之， 这些学者自参加BIRCWH计划以来已经发表了550多篇出版物(不包括 摘要)。对于我们提议的第四个周期，我们将继续与我们的学者和他们精心挑选的人合作 在科罗拉多大学-安舒茨医学院丰富的学术环境中担任主要导师。 我们将帮助他们组建创新的跨学科科学咨询委员会(SACS)。学者和他们的 整个SACS以及BIRCWH领导层将每年召开两次会议，并使用 循证课程侧重于发展学术和职业发展技能。此外, 借鉴我们在BIRCWH前三个周期的经验，以及我们成功的持续方法， 我们提出了几项关键的计划创新： O循证课程现在还将侧重于如何将性和性别融入所有人 从研究设计到分析的研究步骤。 O鼓励学者在相对较早的过程中开始他们的个人K奖 他们作为BIRCWH学者的任期(即最初BIRCWH学者任命后8-9个月)和斯特朗 导师/SAC/BIRCWH领导力支持。 O在BIRCWH学者项目完成后，BIRCWH学者与他们的SACS之间的持续互动 在此期间(通过下一步的学术步骤)延长指导，同时努力建立独立性。 O增加生物信息学作为尖端的交叉工具，将有助于交织我们的重点。 O增加生物统计人员的可获得性，以满足学者的复杂统计需求。 O增加BIRCWH协调人劳拉·布朗博士，她是一名成功的前BIRCWH学者，她将 通过专注于研究和职业发展问题，包括帮助他们在他们的 NeXT补助金-帮助他们成功过渡到BIRCWH后职业生涯的补助金。 O高度重视努力增加我们BIRCWH学者的多样性。 我们的总体目标是：支持来自不同群体的顶尖申请者，这些人都非常有动力和才华 个人，并为他们提供适当定制的、高质量的跨学科指导研究和 职业发展经验。科罗拉多州BIRCWH的优秀机构支持，具有强大的 对妇女健康的关注，也将推动这一旨在成功发展的重要方案的发展， 独立的跨学科科学家在女性健康和性别差异方面的研究，从而提高 女性的健康。

Project Summary This application is for the 4th cycle of funding for the Colorado Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women’s Health Research (BIRCWH) K12 program, established in 2007. Over the past 15 years, we have had 21 Scholars in the program, 18 of whom have remained in academic medicine and are funded. Collectively, these Scholars have published over 550 publications since their time in the BIRCWH program (not including abstracts). For our proposed 4th cycle, we will continue to work with our Scholars and their carefully chosen primary mentors in the rich academic environment of the University of Colorado-Anschutz Medical Campus. We will help them form innovative interdisciplinary Scientific Advisory Committees (SACs). Scholars and their entire SACs as well as BIRCWH leadership will meet twice yearly and participate in monthly trainings using an evidence-based curriculum focused on developing academic and career development skills. In addition, learning from our experience in 3 prior cycles of BIRCWH and in addition to our successful ongoing methods, we propose several key program innovations: o The evidence-based curriculum now will also include focus on how to integrate sex and gender into all steps of research from study design to analysis. o Encouraging Scholars to begin working on their individual K award relatively early in the course of their tenure as a BIRCWH Scholar (i.e., 8-9 months after initial BIRCWH Scholar appointment) with strong mentor/SAC/BIRCWH leadership support. o Ongoing interaction for BIRCWH Scholars with their SACs following completion of the BIRCWH Scholar period (through the next academic steps) to extend guidance while also working to establish independence. o Addition of bioinformatics as a cutting edge, cross-cutting tool that will serve to interweave our foci. o Increased biostatistician availability to meet the complex statistical needs of the Scholars. o Addition of a BIRCWH facilitator, Dr. Laura Brown, a successful former BIRCWH Scholar, who will work with Scholars by focusing on research and career development issues including helping them work on their next grants- grants that will help them transition successfully to their post-BIRCWH careers. o A strong focus on working to increase diversity of our BIRCWH Scholars. Our overall goal is to: Support top applicants from a diverse pool of exceptionally motivated and talented individuals, and provide them with an appropriately tailored, top-quality interdisciplinary mentored research and career development experience. The excellent institutional support for the Colorado BIRCWH, with strong focus on women’s health, will also fuel the growth of this important program which aims to develop successful, independent interdisciplinary scientists in women’s health and sex differences research and thereby improve the health of women.