Kentucky BIRCWH Program: Training the Next Generation of Women's Health Researchers

项目摘要/摘要 英国肯塔基大学的BIRCWH项目围绕三大支柱建立： 跨学科研究、指导和职业发展。我们将继续为客户提供 正式的框架，通过这个框架，有经验的教职员工在 妇女健康将提供指导，提供深入的研究经验和说教 对初级教职员工进行培训。我们的目标是为英国BIRCWH学者提供 有机会获得跨学科、有指导的职业发展经验，以促进 她们转变为独立的、由外部资助的妇女健康调查人员 研究。我们选择将我们的奖学金努力集中在那些普遍存在的健康挑战上 阿巴拉契亚肯塔基州。因为阿巴拉契亚地区受毒品的影响不成比例 虐待、暴力和健康状况不佳，我们将积极争取生活在阿巴拉契亚肯塔基州的妇女 在我们的研究议程中，研究在社区和社区之间双向流动 研究人员。这种方法将继续为我们的BIRCWH学者提供最先进的 多学科培训使他们成为独立的NIH和 校外资金。本年度旨在改善妇女健康的重点领域 应用包括：1)药物滥用，2)对妇女的暴力，以及3)在 女人的寿命。通过BIRCWH计划，加强妇女的能力 卫生研究将通过以下目标完成：1)提供环境， 导师和设施，以提高BIRCWH学者竞争NIH的能力 妇女健康研究不同领域的研究资助，2)加深我们对 性别在健康和疾病表现中的独特作用，3)发展和 实施新的通信和社交网络技术，以解决妇女健康问题， 4)使预防、诊断和治疗个人化，以解决 妇女，如药物滥用和暴力，5)刺激新的合作， 跨学科和互动的研究领域，对于改善妇女的 保健；以及6)利用专题多学科重点作为加强 基础、临床和公共卫生科学家之间的转化研究。中国的基础是 BIRCWH计划将继续在跨学科范围内提供实践研究经验 由经验丰富的导师指导的团队。我们前BIRCWH的成功就是明证 学者们，我们将继续保持卓越的传统来指导我们的学者们 成为女性健康领域的独立研究人员。

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT The BIRCWH Program at the University of Kentucky (UK) is built around three pillars: interdisciplinary research, mentoring, and career development. We will continue to provide the formal framework through which experienced faculty members who share common interests in women's health will offer mentoring to provide in-depth research experiences and didactic training to junior faculty members. Our goal is to provide UK BIRCWH scholars with opportunities for an interdisciplinary, mentored career development experience to facilitate their transition to become independent, extramurally funded investigators in women's health research. We choose to focus our scholarship efforts on those health challenges prevalent to Appalachian Kentucky. Because the Appalachian region is disproportionately affected by drug abuse, violence, and poor health, we will actively engage women living in Appalachian Kentucky in our research agenda with research flowing bidirectionally between communities and researchers. This approach will continue to provide our BIRCWH scholars with state-of-the-art multidisciplinary training leading to their development as faculty with independent NIH and extramural funding. The focused areas targeted towards improving women's health in this application include: 1) substance abuse, 2) violence against women, and 3) changes across a woman's lifespan. Through this BIRCWH program, strengthening the capacity for women's health research will be accomplished by the following Aims: 1) to provide the environment, mentorship, and facilities to enhance the ability of BIRCWH scholars to compete for NIH research grants in diverse areas of women's health research, 2) to deepen our understanding of the unique role of gender in the manifestation of health and disease, 3) to develop and implement new communication and social networking technologies to address women's health, 4) to personalize prevention, diagnostics, and therapeutics to address health disparities among women such as substance abuse and violence, 5) to stimulate new collaborations in focused, interdisciplinary, and interactive research areas that are essential for improving women's health; and 6) to use a thematic multidisciplinary focus as a platform for enhancing translational research between basic, clinical and public health scientists. The foundation of the BIRCWH program will continue to be practical research experiences within interdisciplinary teams guided by experienced mentors. As evident by the success of our former BIRCWH scholars, we are well positioned to continue the tradition of excellence in mentoring our scholars to become independent researchers in women's health.