CVD Epidemiology Training Program in Behavior, the Environment and Global Health

描述（由申请人提供）：该提案将资助NHLBI CVD Epi行为，环境和全球健康培训计划，这些至关重要的科学学科在NHLBI培训中仍然代表不足。该计划每年将在哈佛公共卫生学院及其附属机构的丰富学术环境中培养3名博士前和4名博士后学员，汇集优秀的教师导师，提供综合和跨学科的经验和协作互动，核心和选修课程的专业课程，非教学性实践职业培训，个人候选人培训计划，正在进行的项目评估。尖端的教学培训和指导将创造新一代的高技能和热情的研究人员，以研究行为和环境风险因素对心脏代谢疾病的影响;阐明文化规范，基因组变异，以及修改这些风险因素的生物和社会学途径;并了解和利用全套流行病学，干预，环境和政策工具来设计，实施和评估最有效的个性化，社区，和政策干预，以减少有害风险因素的影响，促进保护性行为和环境因素的扩大，并减轻或扭转令人担忧的全球心脏代谢疾病趋势。培训将包括研究心脏代谢疾病与行为的交叉所需的现代方法和分析技术，包括观察流行病学和成年，青少年和早期生活的干预措施;环境，包括空气传播和环境毒素，社会风险和物理（建筑）环境;和全球卫生，包括观察流行病学，人口统计学，比较风险评估，并在个人和社区层面的控制干预措施。该培训计划为NHLBI的承诺增加了相当大的力量和深度，以了解发达国家和发展中国家心血管和代谢疾病的行为和环境决定因素，预防措施和治疗。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal will fund the NHLBI CVD Epi Training Program in Behavior, the Environment, and Global Health, critically important scientific disciplines that remain under-represented in NHLBI training. This Program will train 3 pre-doctoral and 4 post-doctoral trainees each year in the rich academic environment of the Harvard School of Public Health and affiliated institutions locally and worldwide, bringing together outstanding faculty Mentors to provide integrated and interdisciplinary experiences and collaborative interactions, specialized curriculum with core and elective coursework, nondidactic practical career training, individual candidate training plans, and ongoing Program evaluation. Cutting-edge didactic training and mentoring will create a new generation of highly skilled and enthusiastic investigators to study the impact of behavioral and environmental risk factors on cardiometabolic diseases; to elucidate the cultural norms, genomic variation, and biologic and sociologic pathways that modify these risk factors; and to understand and utilize the full set of epidemiologic, interventional, environmental, and policy tools to design, implement, and evaluate the most effective individualized, community, and policy interventions to reduce impact of harmful risk factors, facilitate expansion of protective behavioral and environmental factors, and attenuate or reverse the alarming global trends in cardiometabolic diseases. Training will include modern methodological and analytical techniques required to study the intersections of cardiometabolic diseases with Behavior, including observational epidemiology and interventions in adulthood, adolescence, and early life; the Environment, including airborne and environmental toxins, social risks, and physical (built) environment; and Global Health, including observational epidemiology, demography, comparative risk assessment, and controlled interventions at both individual and community levels. This Training Program adds considerable strength and depth to the NHLBI's commitment to understanding the behavioral and environmental determinants, preventive measures, and treatments of cardiovascular and metabolic diseases in both developed and developing nations.