Social Science Training Program in Population Studies

项目总结/摘要 人口研究中心（PSC）要求其博士前和博士后社会研究项目延长五年。 自1986年以来由NICHD资助的人口研究科学培训方案， 培养创新、道德和富有成效的研究人员，包括来自代表性不足背景的研究人员 在这些学科。博士前学员来自密歇根州排名靠前的博士课程， 社会学、经济学、公共卫生和公共政策。他们将结合联合收割机的具体博士要求， 通过将正规教育和培训相结合， 课程，非正式研讨会，并在PSC的丰富的基础上研究学徒计划 跨学科的环境。博士后学者是来自各种社会和健康领域的研究人员 受益于人口统计学理论和人口研究方法的科学家 健康大多数博士后培训生都是从其他大学招聘的，并从与新大学的匹配中受益。 导师，参加一系列实质性、方法和专业化研讨会， 和合作研究。密歇根州的受训人员由调查人员指导一些最核心的数据 收集研究人口动态的项目，如收入动态小组研究。他们获得 在健康怀孕、儿童和青少年健康以及终身健康方面的专业知识， 特别注意其中健康差距的社会和经济决定因素。我们的目标是培养 下一代健康科学家的职业生涯花了整合知识，理论和工具，从 经济学、公共卫生、公共政策和社会学，收集和分析制定政策所需的数据。 人口进程中与健康有关的趋势。领导：该计划将由Sarah博士共同领导 伯加德是PSC主任，也是NIH资助的社会学家和流行病学家， 社会经济、性别和种族/民族健康差异的决定因素，以及Paula Fomby博士， 自2017年以来，PSC的主任和培训主任以及NIH资助的家庭人口统计学家。MPI是 由来自经济学/公共政策（杨院长博士）、卫生和社会发展领域的协调员组成的培训委员会提供支持。 行为与健康教育（Arline Geronimus博士）和社会学/公共政策（Jeff Morenoff博士，前 PSC中心主任）所有全职教授和经验丰富的导师。学员将由不同的 培训来自这些和相关学科部门的教师，有资金充足的项目的研究人员和 指导和安排学员担任领导学术和政府研究职位的良好记录。的 培训计划将由美国最古老的人口中心之一PSC管理， 60年来在国内和国际人口动态研究和培训方面的杰出记录。

Project Summary/Abstract The Population Studies Center (PSC) requests a five-year renewal of its predoctoral and postdoctoral Social Science Training Program in Population Studies, funded by NICHD since 1986, to build on a strong record of producing innovative, ethical, and productive researchers, including those from backgrounds underrepresented in these disciplines. Predoctoral trainees are drawn from Michigan's highly ranked doctoral programs in sociology, economics, public health, and public policy. They will combine the specific doctoral requirements of their disciplines with additional specialized training in demography through a combination of formal coursework, informal seminars, and a research apprenticeship program grounded in PSC's rich interdisciplinary environment. Postdoctoral scholars are researchers from a variety of social and health sciences who benefit from focused exposure to demographic theories and methods for studying population health. Most postdoctoral trainees are recruited from other universities, and benefit from matches with a new mentor or mentors, participation in a range of substantive, methodological, and professionalization seminars, and collaborative research. Michigan trainees are mentored by investigators on some of the most central data collection projects for studying population dynamics, such as the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. They gain expertise in the foundations of healthy pregnancies, child and young adult health, and lifelong wellness, with particular attention to the social and economic determinants of health disparities therein. Our goal is to cultivate the next generation of health scientists for careers spent integrating knowledge, theory, and tools from economics, public health, public policy, and sociology to collect and analyze the data needed to address policy and health-relevant trends in population processes. Leadership: The program will be co-led by Dr. Sarah Burgard, director of the PSC and NIH-funded sociologist and epidemiologist focused on the social determinants of socioeconomic, gender and racial/ethnic health disparities, and Dr. Paula Fomby, associate director and training director of the PSC since 2017 and NIH-funded family demographer. The MPIs are supported by a training committee of field coordinators from Economics/Public Policy (Dr. Dean Yang), Health Behavior and Health Education (Dr. Arline Geronimus) and Sociology/Public Policy (Dr. Jeff Morenoff, former PSC Center Director) all full professors and experienced mentors. Trainees will be mentored by diverse training faculty from these and related disciplinary departments, researchers with well-funded projects and a strong record of mentoring and placing trainees in leading academic and governmental research positions. The training program will be stewarded by the PSC, one of the oldest population centers in the United States, with a distinguished 60-year record of domestic and international research and training in population dynamics.