Duke Population Research Institute

 描述（由申请人提供）：杜克大学人口研究中心（DPRC）是一个跨学科的研究组织，汇集了来自社会科学（人口学，经济学，心理学，社会学）和生物，数学和统计科学的科学家在杜克。该中心旨在促进尖端研究，探讨人口福祉的基本问题，扩大人口调查的范围，并促进下一代研究人员的发展。疾病预防和控制中心的影响将在三个新兴领域最大：（a）深入了解人口健康的发展过程，（B）了解社会联系和网络地位在人口健康中的作用，（c）确定因果影响，以促进对人口行为的了解。我们鼓励和促进数据收集和数据分析方面的创新，以解决这些问题。DPRC目前有来自10个部门，学校和研究所的53名教职员工。该申请要求NICHD人口动态中心研究基础设施（P2C）提供资金，以支持三个核心：管理，开发和科学核心。拟议的核心将降低寻求和管理外部资金的行政成本，使研究人员能够专注于科学。我们的目标是通过开发没有DPRC就不可能实现的科学来增加外部资金，考虑到杜克人口研究人员的数量和质量，其最近招募顶级人口科学家的记录，以及其独特的数据资源（例如，主要国际小组调查的领导作用）。在过去10年中，人口研究中心已成为人口研究界的主要贡献者。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Duke University Population Research Center (DPRC) is an interdisciplinary research organization bringing together scientists from the social sciences (demography, economics, psychology, sociology) and the biological, mathematical, and statistical sciences at Duke. The center seeks to catalyze cutting-edge research that speaks to fundamental questions of population well-being and expands the boundaries of demographic investigation and to foster the development of the next generation of researchers. DPRC's impact will be greatest in three emerging areas: (a) Getting under the skin to understand the developmental processes of population health, (b) Understanding of the roles of social connections and network positions in population health, and (c) Identifying causal effects to advance understanding of behavior at the population level. We encourage and promote innovation in data collection and data analyses in pursuit of these questions. DPRC currently has 53 faculty associates from 10 departments, schools and institutes. This application requests funding from the NICHD Population Dynamics Centers Research Infrastructure (P2C) to support three cores, administration, development and science cores. The proposed cores will lower the administrative costs of seeking and managing external funding freeing researchers to concentrate on science. Our goal is to increase external funding by developing science that would not be possible without DPRC, given the number and quality of population researchers at Duke, its recent record of recruiting top population scientists, and its unique data resources (e.g., the leadership on major international panel surveys). Over the past 10 years, DPRC has become a major contributor to the population research community.