Carolina Program in Health and Aging Research

描述（由申请人提供）：北卡罗来纳州大学老龄化研究所（IDA）建议重新提交一个机构露丝L。Kirschstein国家研究服务奖（NRSA），要求在新的标题下，卡罗莱纳健康和老龄化研究计划（CPHAR）的第二个五年的资金。该计划将提供先进的跨学科研究培训和指导研究经验，从健康和老龄化研究领域的几个学科合格的博士前和博士后研究员。CPHAR在健康，医疗保健和老龄化研究方面的培训工作是基于这些领域中广泛认可的医疗保健教师的领导力，以及在老龄化社会中对此类研究的明显需求。该计划通过理论，分析和实质性内容的平衡来增强传统的学科培训，涵盖公共卫生，社会科学和临床观点。我们对健康和老龄化的主要兴趣需要临床和医疗基础。通过公共卫生和社会科学，我们专注于性别，种族和阶级的健康差异以及农村老龄化。因为我们在生态背景下看待个人，并从生命历程的角度来看，学员学习社会科学理论和方法以及公共政策技能，以进行适当的分析。这些综合的理论，方法和应用的角度强调跨学科的重要性。CPHAR执行委员会的不同部门和学科背景，其指导委员会和教师导师库加强了这一原则。跨学科指导小组，一个必要的系列研讨会，和其他结构化的活动，确保这一理念的实施。CPHAR还强调在其方案的正式结构中，在其领导，导师和招聘工作中进行多样性和健康差异研究的培训。自成立以来，CPHAR已经达到了所有的培训目标，同时大大提高了培训能力，成为一个成熟的计划。所有的实习生毕业生都进入了学术或研究密集型的职业生涯，都在老龄化和健康领域。CPHAR已经建立了一个独特的研究培训重点，这是独特的校园和该地区。我们有41名教师的大干部，以支持该计划，在老龄化研究所及其老龄化和多样性中心强大的机构基础，并通过我们与其他校园培训计划和研究中心的合作。在上一个项目中，我们成功地连续填补了两个博士前和两个博士后职位。由于我们非常大的和合格的申请人池，我们要求两个额外的博士前研究员职位。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Institute on Aging (IDA) of the University of North Carolina proposes the resubmission of a competing continuation application for an Institutional Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA), requesting a second five years of funding under the new title, Carolina Program for Health and Aging Research (CPHAR). The program will offer advanced interdisciplinary research training and directed research experience to qualified predoctoral and postdoctoral fellows from several disciplines in the area of health and aging research. The CPHAR training effort in health, health care and aging research is predicated on the widely acknowledged leadership of UNC faculty in these areas, and on manifest needs for such research in an aging society. The program augments traditional disciplinary training through a balance of theoretical, analytical, and substantive content covering public health, social science, and clinical perspectives. Our main interest in health and aging requires a clinical and health care grounding. Through public health and the social sciences, we focus on health disparities by gender, race, and class and on rural aging. Because we view individuals in an ecological context and in a life course perspective, trainees learn social science theories and methods and public policy skills for proper analysis. These integrated theoretical, methodological and applied perspectives underscore the importance of interdisciplinarity. The varied departmental and disciplinary backgrounds of the CPHAR Executive Committee, its Steering Committee and its faculty mentor pool reinforce this principle. Interdisciplinary mentorship teams, a required seminar series, and other structured activities ensure that this philosophy is implemented. CPHAR also emphasizes training for diversity and health disparities research in the formal structure of its program, in its leadership, mentors and recruitment efforts. Since inception, CPHAR has met all training goals, while greatly increasing its capacity for training and becoming a mature program. All of its trainee graduates have entered academic or research-intensive careers, all in the aging and health field. CPHAR has established a distinctive focus for research training that is unique to this campus and in the region. We have a large cadre of 41 faculty to support the program, a strong institutional base at the Institute on Aging and its Center for Aging and Diversity, and through our collaboration with other campus training programs and research centers. During the previous program, we were successful in continuously filling our two predoctoral and two postdoctoral positions. Because of our very large and qualified applicant pool, we request two additional predoctoral fellow positions.