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

描述(由申请者提供)：这项提案将资助NHLBI CVD Epi培训项目的行为、环境和全球健康，这些都是至关重要的科学学科，在NHLBI培训中仍未得到充分代表。该计划每年将在哈佛公共卫生学院及其附属机构丰富的学术环境中培训3名博士前和4名博士后实习生，汇集优秀的教师导师，提供综合和跨学科的体验和协作互动，带有核心和选修课程的专业课程，非教学性的实践职业培训，个人候选人培训计划，以及正在进行的项目评估。尖端的教学培训和指导将培养新一代高技能和热情的调查人员，研究行为和环境风险因素对心脏代谢疾病的影响；阐明改变这些风险因素的文化规范、基因组变异和生物和社会学途径；了解和利用一整套流行病学、干预、环境和政策工具来设计、实施和评估最有效的个体化、社区和政策干预措施，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展，并减弱或逆转心脏代谢疾病令人担忧的全球趋势。培训将包括研究心脏代谢性疾病与行为的交集所需的现代方法和分析技术，包括成年期、青春期和早期生活的观察流行病学和干预措施；环境，包括空气和环境毒素、社会风险和物理(建筑)环境；以及全球健康，包括观察流行病学、人口学、比较风险评估和个人和社区层面的受控干预措施。这一培训计划增加了NHLBI对了解发达国家和发展中国家心血管和代谢性疾病的行为和环境决定因素、预防措施和治疗的承诺的相当大的力度和深度。

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.