Research Training for Cancer Epidemiology & Biostatistics in China

描述（申请人提供）：随着过去三十年经济的快速发展和环境的严重恶化，中国人类癌症风险迅速增加。目前癌症是中国的头号杀手，2006年癌症治疗费用占中国全年医疗费用的20%以上，这一数字实际上被认为是被严重低估了。面对中国癌症负担日益加重的严重后果，意识到全国范围内环境状况和人类健康的恶化可能危及经济发展，中国政府已采取重大措施预防和控制癌症。然而，中国在对抗和抗击癌症方面面临着许多挑战。目前中国癌症预防和控制的一个主要缺陷是严重缺乏所有主要癌症研究领域的训练有素的人员。该申请的主要目标是确保在中国医学科学院肿瘤研究所（CI-CAMS，指定的中国国家癌症中心）内建立一个卓越的癌症研究和教学中心所需的资源，该中心由中央政府授权负责中国的癌症预防和控制。这些资源将用于（1）培训CI-CAMS急需的科学家，以制定适当的战略，更好地了解和更有效地应对中国日益增加的癌症负担所带来的新威胁;（2）建立基础设施，使CI-CAMS能够作为国家癌症相关研究的教学和研究中心;（3）加强中国国家癌症登记办公室的职能，使其成为协调和监督中国癌症登记工作的国家卓越中心。培训目标将通过从CI-CAMS的教师和现有的前/博士后项目中选择的学员来实现，他们将通过长期/中期/短期培训或研讨会和基于互联网的导师系统在耶鲁大学公共卫生学院（YSPH）接受教育和指导。培训将强调癌症流行病学和生物统计学主要领域的原则和方法。该培训项目将由CI-CAMS和耶鲁大学的代表组成的项目学院管理。耶鲁大学，特别是YSPH，与中国有着悠久的研究和培训合作历史。我们期望该项目的学员将成为中国癌症研究领域的未来领导者。公共卫生相关性（未输入）

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Following the rapid economic development and the severe environmental deterioration during the past three decades, human cancer risk has been increasing rapidly in China. Cancer now is the number one killer in China and the costs for cancer treatment in 2006 reached more than 20% of the annual total medical costs in China, and this number is actually considered to be seriously underestimated. Facing the grave consequence of the ever increasing cancer burden in China; realizing that nationwide deterioration in environmental conditions and human health could jeopardize the economic development, the Chinese government has taken major steps to prevent and control cancer. China, however, faces many challenges in confronting and battling the war against cancer. One of the major shortcomings for cancer prevention and control in China today is the severe lack of well-trained personnel in all major areas of cancer studies. The primary goal of this application is to secure the resources necessary to build a center of excellence in research and teaching in cancer studies within the Cancer Institute, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (CI-CAMS, the designated China National Cancer Center), which is mandated by the central government to be responsible for China's cancer prevention and control. The resources will be used to (1) train scientists urgently needed in the CI-CAMS to develop appropriate strategies to better understand and more effectively respond to the emerging threat from the increasing cancer burden in China; (2) build an infrastructure that will allow CI-CAMS to function as a national center for teaching and research in cancer-related studies; and (3) strengthen China's National Cancer Registration Office to function as a national center of excellence for coordinating and monitoring China's cancer registration. The training goals will be achieved through trainees, selected from faculty and existing pre/post-doctoral programs at CI-CAMS, who will receive education and mentoring at Yale School of Public Health (YSPH) through long-term/intermediate/short-term training or workshops and internet-based tutorial system. The training will emphasize principles and methods in major areas of cancer epidemiology and biostatistics. This training program will be administered by a Program Faculty with representation from both CI-CAMS and Yale University. Yale University, YSPH in particular, has a strong history of prior research and training collaborations with China. We anticipate that trainees of this program will be uniquely qualified to be future leaders in the field of cancer research in China. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE (None entered)