Interdisciplinary Population Health Science Training: Linking Multilevel Forces Across Time

项目总结/摘要 主要的现代健康问题很少能完全通过临床干预或医疗手段来解决。 预付款。社会、经济和政策环境也深刻地影响着人类健康和发展， 需要一种综合的方法来研究对人口健康的多层次影响， 时间尺度：“细胞对社会”的办法。美国国家科学院最近的一份报告得出结论， 实现人口健康科学的转型研究将需要一个新的，真正的跨学科 培养下一代科学家。不幸的是，现在有几个障碍阻碍了这种培训。 大学学科结构筒仓研究人员。培训项目通常优先考虑病因学研究， 研究有效的解决办法。大多数新科学家只接受过生物学、社会学或卫生保健方面的培训 系统对疾病的影响;很少有人接受过将三者结合起来的训练。目标：我们提出了一个预- 明尼苏达大学人口健康科学博士和博士后培训， 科学家们了解复杂的健康问题和健康差异是由多种和 相互作用的影响层，并在时间顺序，生物和历史时间展开。设计：该 拟议的计划的特点交叉培训的生物学和疾病的病因学和社会科学， 包括人口健康科学，人口建模和负责任的行为的必修课程 研究;独立和合作研究由跨学科团队的教师监督;和 旨在融合不同学科背景的受训人员的强化专业社会化， 为他们做好准备，使他们成为人口健康科学家。答：我们要求五个前- 博士（三年）和两个博士后（两年）培训名额。结果：我们的目标是培养下一个 一代健康科学家的职业生涯花了整合知识，理论和工具，从多个学科 进行尖端研究，并为国家最紧迫的公共卫生问题提供新的解决方案， 问题.领导：该计划是由人口健康学者约翰罗伯特沃伦博士（社会学）共同领导 和Theresa Osypuk博士（流行病学与社区卫生）。与执行委员会一起， 国家认可的人口健康科学家和来自四个国家的44名教师导师组成的优秀团队 学院和七个纪律部门，他们将监督一个培训计划，融合课程， 生物，健康和社会科学，并具有综合性，突破性的人口健康研究 有目的的专业化。培训计划将由明尼苏达州人口中心管理， 一个充满活力的跨学科知识空间，优先考虑人口健康研究， 该学院拥有资金充足的研究项目和令人印象深刻的人口健康学者培训记录。

Project Summary/Abstract Major modern health problems can rarely be solved exclusively through clinical interventions or medical advances. Social, economic, and policy contexts also shape human health and development in profound ways, requiring an integrative approach to studying the multiple layers of influence on population health over multiple time scales: a “cells-to-society” approach. A recent National Academy of Sciences report concluded that achieving transformational research in population health science will require a novel, truly interdisciplinary approach to training the next generation of scientists. Unfortunately, several barriers now impede such training. University disciplinary structures silo researchers. Training programs typically prioritize research on etiology over investigations of effective solutions. Most new scientists are trained only in the biological, social, or health care system influences on disease; few are trained to integrate all three. Objectives: We propose a program of pre- doctoral and post-doctoral training in population health science at the University of Minnesota that will produce scientists who understand complex health problems and health disparities as resulting from multiple and interacting layers of influence and that unfold over chronological, biological, and historical time. Design: The proposed program features cross-training in the biology and etiology of disease and the social sciences and includes required coursework on population health science, population modeling, and the responsible conduct of research; independent and collaborative research supervised by interdisciplinary teams of faculty; and intensive professional socialization designed to integrate trainees from diverse disciplinary backgrounds and prepare them to have outstanding careers as population health scientists. Appointments: We request five pre- doctoral (three-year) and two post-doctoral (two-year) training slots. Outcomes: Our goal is to cultivate the next generation of health scientists for careers spent integrating knowledge, theory, and tools from multiple disciplines to conduct cutting edge research and to produce novel solutions to the nation’s most pressing public health issues. Leadership: The program is co-led by population health scholars Dr. John Robert Warren (Sociology) and Dr. Theresa Osypuk (Epidemiology & Community Health). Together with an Executive Committee of nationally-recognized population health scientists and an outstanding team of 44 faculty mentors from four colleges and seven disciplinary departments, they will oversee a training program that blends coursework from the biological, health, and social sciences and features integrative, ground breaking population health research and purposeful professionalization. The training program will be stewarded by the Minnesota Population Center, a vibrant trans-disciplinary intellectual space prioritizing population health research and featuring a diverse faculty with well-funded research projects and an impressive track record of training population health scholars.