Core C: External Network Core

核心C：外部网络 对老龄化的社会、经济和生物人口学方面的研究取决于 成功的机构间交流和跨学科合作。为了培养这些 关系，杜克的人口健康和老龄化中心（CPHA）包括一个外部 网络核心（ENC）将杜克的教师、员工和学员与国家和 国际老龄化研究共同体。ENC将利用以下优势： 在当地的北卡罗来纳州研究三角对老龄化的生物社会研究，以支持 合作试点提案和社会和生物问题机构间工作组 健康的决定因素，其特点是独特的，跨学科的重点是整合 研究人类和动物模型。通过这些活动，以及支持 对于会议旅行和短期合作访问，ENC将确定有前途的教师 对老龄化研究感兴趣的学员，并提供关键的早期支持， 老龄化研究团体此外，为了展示尖端的，新兴的工作， 关于老龄化的行为和社会研究，ENC将支持主题研讨会和专题讨论会 关于CPHA社区感兴趣的主题。这些事件，加上既定的， CPHA支持的年度会议，“人口学眩晕”，将以重要的研究为特色 促进新的合作机会，并激励新的研究方向 在杜克内外都有因此，ENC利用了 生物社会研究人员在杜克，同时建立与教师和 在区域、国家和全球范围内培训学员。因此，它推进了以下总体目标： 整个30国提案，特别是与社会科学和生活相结合的提案 科学方法来理解整个生命过程中的衰老。

CORE C: EXTERNAL NETWORK Research on the social, economic, and biodemographic dimensions of aging depends on successful interinstitutional exchange and interdisciplinary collaboration. To foster these relationships, Duke’s Center for Population Health and Aging (CPHA) includes an External Network Core (ENC) that connects faculty, staff, and trainees at Duke with the national and international aging research community. The ENC will take advantage of the strengths of biosocial research on aging in the local North Carolina Research Triangle to support collaborative pilot proposals and an interinstitutional working group on the Social and Biological Determinants of Health, which features a unique, cross-disciplinary focus on integrating research in human populations and animal models. Through these activities, as well as support for conference travel and short-term collaborative visits, the ENC will identify promising faculty and trainees with an interest in aging research and provide crucial early stage support to grow the aging research community. Additionally, to showcase cutting-edge, emerging work in behavioral and social research on aging, the ENC will support themed workshops and symposia on topics of interest to the CPHA community. These events, in combination with the established, CPHA-supported annual meeting, “Demography Daze,” will feature important research advances, catalyze new opportunities for collaboration, and motivate new research directions within and outside Duke. The ENC thus takes advantage of the exceptional community of biosocial researchers at Duke, while simultaneously building connections with faculty and trainees on a regional, national, and global scale. It therefore advances the overarching aims of the P30 proposal as a whole, with particular relevance to integrating social science and life science approaches to understand aging across the life course.