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项目，该项目将行为科学和生物医学科学相结合，并具有跨领域主题，强调广泛定义的预防和发展科学。这个博士前培训项目吸引了三个与行为科学密切相关的单元的学员：运动科学、流行病学和心理学。许多行为科学学院的导师都在从事与健康相关的研究问题，这些问题与预防科学、发展科学（从寿命的角度广义地构想）或两者都有联系。行为-生物医学接口计划（BBIP）是跨学科的范围，包括在以下部门任命的计划教师：生物科学；传播科学与疾病；流行病学与生物统计学；运动科学;药理学、生理学和神经科学；和心理学。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项目，让学生感受到联系，并有足够的机会和场所与许多项目的教师和学生互动。这在一定程度上是通过模块化的形式来实现的，在项目的最初几年里，它为学生提供了一个有凝聚力的同伴小组，并培养了跨单元的学生与教师的互动。模块涵盖神经生物学、内分泌学、遗传学、发育科学中的界面问题和预防科学中的界面问题。几个统一的元素也被纳入到计划中，包括季度系列研讨会和年度研讨会，学生和教师可以在那里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受邀演讲者互动。该计划包括促进有效的指导，强调专业科学发展，并从多个维度跟踪学员在项目完成期间和之后，以评估项目。这一培训方案旨在培养精通生物医学科学的行为科学家的能力，以便更有效地促进对健康失调、状况和积极健康结果的研究，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.