Center for Demography and Ecology

描述（由申请人提供）：本申请要求为威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校人口与生态中心提供五年的支持。CDE是一个备受瞩目的人口研究中心，在11个系和4个学院设有分支机构。自1972年以来，它一直持有NICHD中心赠款资金；本申请要求在NICHD的人口研究基础设施计划（R24）下继续提供这种支持。要求为四个研究支持核心——管理、计算、信息服务和方法——以及发展基础设施提供支持。人口中心基金将支持一群研究范围横跨人口研究领域的学者。在过去的五年中，中国人口研究中心积极招募顶尖的青年科学家，加强了与人口研究相关领域的部门、研究中心和研究所的联系，并开发了新的合作形式。与过去相比，我们的研究组合变得更加多样化，更具国际性，涵盖了生命历程的更大一部分。CDE研究人员在广泛的主题范围内工作，但四个集群构成了我们的标志性主题：(1)健康和死亡率；(2)不平等人口；(3)生育率、家庭和住户；(4)数据和方法。除了这些领域的创新研究之外；人口研究中心的研究人员继续收集和提供高质量的数据，供人口研究界使用。继续对人口发展研究的投资将利用联合国大学的大量承诺、大量个人研究补助金以及杰出的人力和组织资源，以促进关于人口问题的跨学科研究。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application requests five years of support for the Center of Demography and Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison. CDE is a high-profile research center in population with affiliates in 11 departments and 4 colleges. It has held NICHD Center Grant funding since 1972; this application requests continuation of that support under NICHD's Population Research Infrastructure Program (R24). Support is requested for four research support cores - Administration, Computing, Information Services and Methodology- and for Developmental Infrastructure. The Population Center Grant would support a collection of scholars whose research spans the field of population studies. During the past five years, CDE has aggressively recruited top young scientists, strengthened ties and developed new forms of cooperation with departments, research centers and institutes in fields cognate to population studies. Our research portfolio has become more diverse, is more international in character, and covers a greater portion of the life course than in the past. CDE researchers work in a broad spectrum of topics, but four clusters constitute our signature themes: (1) Health and Mortality; (2) the Demography of Inequality; (3) Fertility, Families, and Households; and (4) Data and Methodology. In addition to innovative research in each of these areas; CDE researchers continue to collect and produce high-quality data for the use by the population research community. Continued investment in CDE will leverage substantial commitments from the University, a large portfolio of individual research grants, and outstanding human and organizational resources to promote interdisciplinary research on population issues. RELEVANCE: Changes in childbearing, the gradual increase in life expectancy and the global mobility of people create an unending stream of questions that population research may address. Demographic behavior and outcomes affect social organization, health services and economic growth. CDE will help to address these challenges as an innovative and flexible provider of research collaboration, training, and infrastructure.