Cornell Population Program

描述（由申请人提供）：康奈尔人口项目（CPP）在H. Elizabeth Peters博士的行政领导下，有68个分支机构，专门从事人口研究，涉及三个核心主题：(1)家庭和儿童；(2)健康行为与差异；(3)贫困和不平等。跨领域主题包括关注政策、种族和民族多样性、移徙和移民、社会和生物机制以及国内和国际研究。附属机构来自康奈尔大学15个不同的部门或项目，代表了广泛的学科，包括人口统计学、经济学、政府学、心理学、社会学和统计学。CPP提供了一个独特的机会，将不同的教师聚集到一个人口研究中心，支持跨学科和国家和国际比较研究，增加对这些研究的研究资金，促进高质量的研究，并准备将学术研究转化为有意义的政策建议。这项倡议得到了康奈尔大学最高管理层的支持。CPP目前由康奈尔大学社会科学副教务长办公室、几所学院的院长和布朗芬布伦纳生命历程中心（BLCC）的配套资金和行政支持资助，该中心是CPP所在的行政单位。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Cornell Population Program (CPP), under the administrative leadership of Dr. H. Elizabeth Peters, has 68 affiliates who specialize in population research relating broadly to three core themes: (1) families and children; (2) health behaviors and disparities; and (3) poverty and inequality. Cross-cutting themes include a focus on policy, racial and ethnic diversity, migration and immigration, social and biological mechanisms, and domestic and international research. Affiliates come from 15 different departments or programs at Cornell and represent a broad range of disciplines including demography, economics, government, psychology, sociology, and statistics. The CPP offers a unique opportunity to draw diverse faculty together into a center for population research that supports cross-disciplinary and national and international comparative studies, enhances research funding for these studies, and promotes high quality research, with a readiness to convert academic studies into meaningful policy recommendations. Support for this initiative comes from the highest administrative levels at Cornell. The CPP is currently funded by a seed grant from the Cornell Office of the Vice Provost for the Social Sciences, deans from several colleges, and matching funds and administrative support from the Bronfenbrenner Life Course Center (BLCC), the administrative unit in which the CPP is located. In this application we are applying for funding from the NICHD Population Infrastructure Program - Short- term Support for Rising Programs (SSRP) to support three research cores (administrative, computer, and statistical cores) and a developmental core. Given the quantity and quality of population research at Cornell and its unique data resources (e.g., the Census Research Data Center and the Cross-National Equivalency Files), the CPP is on a rapid upward trajectory in the larger population research community. As described in this application, NICHD funds will support new activities that develop synergies and promote collaborations among population researchers located in different units across campus. The proposed cores will provide services that will lead to increased external funding in population research. NICHD support for the CPP is vital to Cornell's on-going efforts to retain faculty and attract talented new faculty with interests in population research.