Career Development in Women's Health (CDWH)

描述(由申请人提供)：西北大学(NU)建立女性健康跨学科职业发展(BIRCWH)女性健康职业发展(CDWH)计划成立于2007年，旨在培训下一代科学家，在性别差异科学和其他与女性健康相关的领域从事独立的跨学科职业生涯。将继续通过汇聚一批在生殖科学和对妇女有不同影响的疾病方面具有专门知识的导师队伍来实现这一目标，为学者们提供与阐明影响健康的性别和性别因素有关的跨学科研究经验。通过这样做，NU BIRCWH CDWH计划还将促进初级教师的职业发展，特别关注解决工作与生活之间的平衡问题，这些问题对女性教师来说可能特别具有挑战性。在生殖科学和对妇女有不同影响的疾病方面的机构优势、国立大学强大的合作文化以及机构资源对职业发展的持续承诺极大地促进了该方案。该方案在第一个获奖期非常成功，招收了8名奖学金获得者和5名毕业生，其中3人现在有独立的赠款资助。一位完成了该计划的学者是代表不足的少数群体。这些导师之所以被选中，是因为他们在RFA中确定的与妇女健康相关的主要主题方面具有专门知识：寿命、性别/性别决定因素、健康差异/差异和多样性以及跨学科研究。他们的总部设在范伯格医学院(医学、神经病学、妇产科、预防医学、精神病学和行为科学)和温伯格艺术与科学学院(分子生物科学、神经生物学和生理学)的七个系。NU BIRCWH CDWH导师的专长一般有六个领域：1)心血管健康和疾病；2)流行病学和行为科学；3)免疫功能-自身免疫和传染病；4)代谢功能；5)神经科学；6)生殖生物学。应该指出的是，NU BIRCWH CDWH的许多导师都有长期的跨学科项目，这意味着他们可以很好地适合我们不止一个研究类别。NU BIRCWH CDWH学者将被指派来自至少两个不同学科和培训背景的导师，进行跨学科研究和职业发展。每位奖学金获得者的导师将与奖学金获得者密切互动，并提供指导，作为跨学科辅导团队的一部分，制定量身定制的职业发展计划。导师们都承诺在整个颁奖期内继续参与其中。该方案将继续由外部咨询委员会以及监督委员会进行监测，该委员会的成员都是其他机构的妇女和儿童权利中心的主管人员。NU Searle卓越教学中心已经实施了正式的项目评估。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Northwestern University (NU) Building Interdisciplinary Career's in Women's Health (BIRCWH) Career Development in Women's Health (CDWH) program was established in 2007 to train the next generation of scientists for independent, interdisciplinary careers in the science of sex differences and in other fields relevant to women's health. This objective will continue to be accomplished by bringing together a cadre of mentors with expertise in reproductive sciences and in diseases that differentially affect women to provide the Scholars with interdisciplinary research experiences relevant to elucidating sex and gender factors affecting health. In so doing, the NU BIRCWH CDWH Program will also enhance the career development of junior faculty, with particular attention to addressing work-life balance issues that can be especially challenging for women faculty. The institutional excellence in reproductive sciences and in diseases differentially affecting women, strong collaborative culture of NU and ongoing commitment of institutional resources to career development have greatly facilitated the Program. The Program has been exceptionally successful in the first award period matriculating eight Scholars and graduating five, three of whom now have independent grant support. One Scholar who has completed the Program was an under-represented minority. The Mentors have been selected for their expertise in the overarching themes relevant to women's health identified in the RFA: Lifespan, Sex/Gender Determinants, Health Disparities/Differences and Diversity, and Interdisciplinary Research. They are based in seven departments in Feinberg School of Medicine (Medicine, Neurology, Obstetrics & Gynecology, Preventive Medicine, and Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences) and Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences (Molecular Biosciences, Neurobiology and Physiology). There are six general areas of NU BIRCWH CDWH Mentor expertise: 1) cardiovascular health and disease; 2) epidemiology and behavioral science; 3) immune function - autoimmunity and infectious diseases; 4) metabolic function; 5) neuroscience; and 6) reproductive biology. It should be noted that many of the NU BIRCWH CDWH Mentors have longstanding programs that are interdisciplinary in nature, which means that they could fit well within more than one of our research categories. NU BIRCWH CDWH Scholars will be assigned Mentors from at least two different disciplines and training backgrounds for interdisciplinary research and career development. Each Scholar's Mentors will interact closely with the Scholar and provide guidance to develop a tailored career development plan as part of an interdisciplinary mentoring team. The Mentors are all committed to continuing their involvement throughout the award period. The Program will continue to be monitored by the External Advisory Committee whose members are all BIRCWH PIs at other institutions as well as by the Oversight Committee. Formal Program evaluation has already been implemented by the NU Searle Center for Teaching Excellence.