Population Research Center

简介（申请人提供）：宾夕法尼亚大学人口研究中心（PSC）成立于1962年，自1978年以来一直在P30和R24机制下获得NICHD的核心支持。宾夕法尼亚大学的PSC由47名项目科学家组成，他们去年在3970万美元的外部资助研究项目上工作，重点是：人口的健康和福祉；人力资源和禀赋；方法创新；国际人口研究；政策评估;人口的增长和结构；以及人口网络。他们的研究非常引人注目：在过去五年中，宾夕法尼亚大学项目科学家在经济学、人口学、社会学和医学等主要期刊上发表的论文中，在同行人口研究中心中排名第一，在这些文章的引用中排名第二。他们在NIH拨款数量上排名第三。PSC是我们了解人口动态的主要国家资源，从生育率和死亡率到公共项目对健康和不平等的影响。宾夕法尼亚大学项目的科学家在国家科学委员会和委员会中有大量代表，并赢得了许多荣誉，这些荣誉是为了解国家健康的公认领导者而保留的（例如，医学研究所的5个）。他们的工作对美国和国外的公共项目和立法产生了明显的影响。PSC以经济学家、人口统计学家和社会学家为核心，但也成功地将其他对人口研究和人口健康感兴趣的人整合在一起，从生物人类学到医学，从统计学到历史。共享的知识兴趣和互补的技能创造了研究的规模经济，如果没有PSC，这种经济将会消失。我们要求更新对共享服务的基本支持，主要是在专门用于(a)组织大规模外部资助研究活动的行政服务和(b)尖端协作科学活动的计算和信息基础设施的研究核心中；(c)发展活动以产生新的项目、征聘新的人口科学家和提高其他人的技能，以及(d)一次性努力产生一套与国际和跨学科研究中出现的人类主题问题有关的最佳做法。除了从美国国立卫生研究院获得的资金外，PSC还得到了宾夕法尼亚大学的慷慨支持，特别是在为人口科学家提供全额工资支持方面。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Population Studies Center (PSC) of the University of Pennsylvania (Penn) was established in 1962 and has enjoyed core support from NICHD under the P30 and R24 mechanisms continuously since 1978. The PSC at Penn comprises 47 program scientists working in the last year on $39.7 million in extramurally funded research projects, with emphasis on: the health and well-being of populations; human resources and endowments; innovation in methods; international population research; policy evaluation; growth and structure of populations; and networks in populations. Their research is highly visible: Penn program scientists' rank 1st among peer population studies centers in publications in leading journals in economics, demography, sociology, and medicine combined during the past five years, and 2nd in citations to these articles. They rank 3rd in number of NIH grants. The PSC is a major national resource for our understanding of the dynamics of human populations, from fertility and mortality to the effects of public programs on health and inequality. Penn program scientists are heavily represented on national scientific boards and commissions, and have earned numerous honors reserved for recognized leaders in understanding the nation's health (e.g., 5 in the Institute of Medicine). Their work has had demonstrable impacts on public programs and legislation in the US and abroad. The PSC is centered on a core of economists, demographers, and sociologists, but has successfully integrated others with interests in population studies and population health, from biological anthropology to medicine to statistics to history. The shared intellectual interests and complementary skills create economies of scale in research that would be lost in the absence of the PSC. We request renewal of essential support for shared services, primarily in research cores dedicated to (a) administrative services for organizing large-scale externally-funded research activities and (b) the computing and information infrastructure for cutting-edge, collaborative scientific activity; and also for (c) developmental activities to generate new projects, recruit new population scientists, and upgrade the skills of others, and (d) a one-time effort to generate a set of best practices relating to human subjects issues arising in international and interdisciplinary research. The PSC, in addition to the monies received from NIH, is generously supported by Penn, especially in the provision of full salary support for population scientists.