Biomedical-Behavioral Interface: Prevention and Developmental Sciences Training

描述(由申请人提供)：本申请建议支持一个跨学科研究培训计划，该计划将行为科学和生物医学结合在一起，以一个横切的主题强调广泛定义的预防和发展科学。这一博士前培训计划吸引了三个与行为科学密切相关的单位的受训人员：运动科学、流行病学和心理学。许多行为科学的教师导师都在研究与健康相关的研究问题，这些问题与预防科学、发展科学(从生命周期的角度广义地构思)或两者都有联系。行为-生物医学接口计划(BBIP)的范围是跨学科的，包括在生物科学、通信科学和疾病、流行病学和生物统计学、运动科学、药理学、生理学和神经科学以及心理学等系任命的计划教员。BBIP部分基于灵活的培训模块，旨在提供一个有凝聚力的综合课程，让学生感觉到联系在一起，并有足够的机会和场所与许多项目教职员工和学生互动。这在一定程度上是通过模块化的形式来实现的，以便在课程的最初几年为学生提供一个有凝聚力的同龄人小组，并培养跨单元的师生互动。课程包括神经生物学、内分泌学、遗传学、发展科学中的接口问题和预防科学中的接口问题。该项目还融入了几个统一的元素，包括季度研讨会系列和年度座谈会，在那里，学生和教职员工可以见面展示他们的工作，接触反映尖端行为-生物医学界面的研讨会，并与国内和国际声誉的特邀演讲者互动。该计划包括促进有效的指导，强调专业-科学发展，以及在项目完成期间和之后对学员进行多维度的跟踪，以评估项目。该培训计划旨在培养精通生物医学科学的行为科学家的能力，以便更有效地为健康障碍、疾病和积极健康结果的研究做出贡献，特别是在预防和发展科学方面。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application proposes support for a program of interdisciplinary research training that interfaces the behavioral and biomedical sciences, with a cross-cutting theme emphasizing prevention and developmental sciences broadly defined. This pre-doctoral training program draws trainees from three units that are heavily involved in the behavioral sciences: Exercise Science, Epidemiology, and Psychology. Many of the behavioral-sciences faculty mentors are working on health-related research problems that are linked to prevention science, the developmental sciences (broadly conceived from a lifespan perspective), or both. The Behavioral-Biomedical Interface Program (BBIP) is interdisciplinary in scope, including program faculty with appointments in the departments of: Biological Sciences; Communications Sciences & Disorders; Epidemiology & Biostatistics; Exercise Science; Pharmacology, Physiology, & Neuroscience; and Psychology. The BBIP, based in part on flexible training modules, is designed to provide a cohesive, integrated program where students feel connected and have adequate opportunities and venues for interacting with many program faculty and students. This is accomplished, in part, by a modular format to provide students with a cohesive peer group in the initial years of the program, and to cultivate student-faculty interactions across units. Modules cover neurobiology, endocrinology, genetics, interface issues in developmental sciences, and interface issues in prevention science. Several unifying elements have also been incorporated into the program including a quarterly seminar series and an annual colloquium, where students and faculty can meet to present their work, be exposed to seminars that reflect cutting-edge behavioral-biomedical interface, and interact with invited speakers of national and international reputation. The plan includes promotion of effective mentoring, emphasis on professional-scientific development, and tracking of the trainees during and after program completion on multiple dimensions to evaluate the program. This training program is designed to build capacity with respect to behavioral scientists well versed in biomedical sciences to more effectively contribute to research on health disorders, conditions, and positive health outcomes, especially with regard to prevention and developmental sciences.