Interdisciplinary Research Training on Health and Aging

描述（由申请人提供）：拟议的项目“公共卫生与老龄化跨学科研究培训”寻求当前奖项的五年延续，该奖项最初于2008年获得资助，并将持续到2013年4月。该方案的总体目标是提供社会和行为决定因素方面的培训，以及它们通过对老年人不利健康结果的生物敏感性过程的调解或相互作用，如存活率降低、老年综合症和合并症、认知能力下降和痴呆以及残疾。这一重点的基本原理在于，这项研究有可能为预防、管理和治疗与衰老有关的慢性健康状况及其功能后果找到新的机会。该计划以社会流行病学为学科基础，同时强调与其他学科观点的学术活动的合作，包括其他公共卫生科学、社会科学、生物科学和医学科学。本申请要求资助4名博士预科生。该项目将设在密歇根大学公共卫生学院流行病学系社会流行病学和人口健康中心（CSEPH）。由于CSEPH及其教师与密歇根大学大量研究机构和中心的相互联系，CSEPH为公共卫生和老龄化领域的跨学科培训项目提供了异常丰富的知识环境。该培训项目包括25名导师，他们有着完善的研究和培训记录，涵盖了各种学科背景。培训计划包括一个结构化的教学和指导计划，包括以下相互关联的部分：1)指导的研究活动；2)参加老年流行病学及相关学科的课程学习，参加公共卫生和老年研究研讨会；3)参加密歇根大学提供的其他培训和充实机会。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The proposed program, "Interdisciplinary Research Training in Public Health and Aging" seeks a five-year continuation of the current award, which was funded originally in 2008 and is supported through April, 2013. The overall objective of the program is to provide training in the social and behavioral determinants, and their mediation through or interaction with biological susceptibility processes of adverse health outcomes in older age, such as reduced survival, geriatric syndromes and co-morbidities, cognitive decline and dementia, and disability. The rationale for this focus lies in the potential of this research t identify new opportunities for the prevention, management and treatment of aging-related chronic health conditions and their functional consequences. The program defines its disciplinary foundation in social epidemiology, while emphasizing collaboration with scholarly activity from other disciplinary perspectives, including other public health sciences, social sciences, biological sciences and medical sciences. This application requests funds for the support of 4 pre-doctoral trainees. The Program will be located in the Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health (CSEPH), Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan School of Public Health. CSEPH provides an exceptionally rich intellectual environment for an interdisciplinary training program in public health and aging, due to the interconnections of CSEPH and its faculty with a large number of research Institutes and Centers at the University of Michigan. The training program includes 25 mentors with well-established research and training records encompassing a variety of disciplinary backgrounds. The training program consists of a structured program of teaching and mentoring with the following inter-related components: 1) mentored research activity; 2) course work in the epidemiology of aging and related subject matters, and participation in public health and aging research seminars; and 3) participation in other training and enrichment opportunities available at the University of Michigan.