Center for Family and Demographic Research

描述（由申请人提供）：鲍灵格林州立大学（BGSU）的家庭与人口研究中心（CFDR）正在响应RFA HD-09-004的R24人口研究基础设施项目。CFDR正在申请第二轮R24资助，以支持一个获得强有力的机构支持并就儿童、青少年和家庭的健康与福祉开展创新和跨学科研究的中心。CFDR由来自不同领域和学科的研究人员组成，他们将人口学与广泛的社会科学观点相结合，以确定人口事件和趋势背后的机制。CFDR的分支机构正在四个广泛的标志性领域进行高质量的前沿研究：家庭和家庭；青少年发展和成年初期；背景下的犯罪和暴力；还有健康和幸福。CFDR正在通过招募和留住有才能的研究人员以及成功地争取到主要的联邦拨款和合同而不断发展壮大。第二轮R24资助将使CFDR能够继续提供科学领导、行政支持和知识社区，以激发已经杰出的研究人员群体的创造力和生产力。CFDR的未来目标是推进关于社会环境如何影响儿童、青少年和家庭的科学知识，并开创收集创新数据的新方法。为了实现这些目标，CFDR正在为三个研究支持核心（行政核心、计算核心、数据和信息核心）和教师发展核心申请资金。这些核心共同通过工作组、系列研讨会和年度专题讨论会创造了知识交流的机会；通过研讨会、培训奖励和种子基金提高教师发展和研究生产力；并提供开展和传播研究以及成功提交和管理赠款所需的实际援助。CFDR基础设施的一个新特性支持分支机构收集试点数据。CFDR能够通过BGSU的费用分摊来确保成本效益。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Center for Family and Demographic Research (CFDR) at Bowling Green State University (BGSU) is responding to RFA HD-09-004 for the R24 Population Research Infrastructure Program. The CFDR is requesting a second round of R24 funding to support a center that receives strong institutional support and generates innovative and interdisciplinary research on the health and well-being of children, adolescents, and families. The CFDR consists of a highly energized and active group of researchers from a variety of fields and disciplines who are integrating demography with broad social scientific perspectives to identify mechanisms underlying demographic events and trends. CFDR affiliates are generating high quality cutting- edge research in four broad signature areas: families and households; adolescent development and emerging adulthood; crime and violence in context; and health and well-being. The CFDR is growing and gaining momentum from recruiting and retaining talented researchers and successfully competing for major federal grants and contracts. A second round of R24 funding will enable the CFDR to continue providing the scientific leadership, administrative support, and intellectual community required to spur the creativity and productivity of an already outstanding group of researchers. The future goals of the CFDR are to advance scientific knowledge on how social contexts influence children, adolescents, and families and to pioneer new approaches to the collection of innovative data. To achieve these goals, the CFDR is requesting funds for three Research Support Cores (Administrative Core, Computing Core, and Data and Information Core) and a Faculty Development Core. Together, these cores create opportunities for intellectual exchange through working groups, seminar series, and annual symposia; enhance faculty development and research productivity through workshops, training awards, and seed grants; and provide the practical assistance required to conduct and disseminate research and to successfully submit and administer grants. A new feature of the CFDR infrastructure supports efforts on the part of affiliates to collect pilot data. The CFDR is able to assure cost-efficiency through cost-sharing from BGSU. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: CFDR research aligns with the current NICHD Demographic and Behavioral Sciences Branch (DBSB) research domains, including the causes and consequences of population health. Our research is additionally consistent with the future directions of the DBSB, including how and why families are changing, the emergence of health disparities in early life, and youth risks of HIV/sexually transmitted diseases and pregnancy. Much of the research conducted under our auspices focuses on high-risk populations.