CAREER AWARD PROGRAM IN DEMOGRAPHY OF AGING

主要研究者和三名合作研究者都是加州大学伯克利分校人口统计学系的成员。 他们试图通过雇佣和指导处于职业生涯早期或中期形成阶段的研究人员来增加老龄化人口统计学方面的领先科学家的数量。 很可能其中一名候选人将是早期的博士后学者，另一名将来自后期的初级教师候选人;这里制定的计划大致建议指导其中一人。 该提案依赖于伯克利在人口老龄化领域的四个主要优势：1。这四名调查人员在教学、研究、指导和公共服务方面都有丰富的经验。 该部门的四名调查人员获得了大量认可，其中大部分是因为在老龄化人口学方面的工作，包括美国国家科学院院士（3），美国艺术与科学学院院士（2），美国人口协会艾琳·陶伯奖的现任得主，明德尔·谢普斯奖（2），国家人口问题研究理事会委员会前任主席（2）和国际人口问题科学研究联合会现任理事会成员（1）。 2.一个跨学科的社会科学研究小组，在人口老龄化的广泛领域具有积极的研究兴趣。一个由国家情报局资助的老龄化经济学和人口统计学中心（CEDA）是其成员研究人员的联络点，他们来自工商管理、人口学、昆虫学、卫生经济学、法律和公共政策等领域。 3.在生物科学和公共卫生和社会福利专业学校中，一个更广泛的老龄问题研究小组聚集在老龄问题学术老年医学中心周围。 该中心的新任主任也是CEDA的副主席和NIA K-07学术职业领导奖的获得者，以协调伯克利地区所有与老龄化有关的活动。4.有机会在导师的指导下工作，他们目前的研究兴趣在于四个领域之一：老龄化的生物人口学;代际转移的分析;对极端年龄死亡率的跨国研究;发展基于进化人类学的老龄化观点。

The Principal Investigator and three co-investigators are all members of the Department of Demography at the University of California at Berkeley. They seek to increase the number of leading scientists in the demography of aging by hiring and mentoring researchers at early or middle formative stages in their careers. It is likely that one of the candidates will be an early post-doctoral scholar and that the other will be from among late junior faculty candidates; the Program as formulated here broadly proposes to mentor one of each. The proposal relies on four of Berkeley's major strengths in the field of population aging: 1. The four investigators have substantial experience in teaching, research, mentoring, and public service. The four investigators from that department have received substantial recognition, much of it for work in the demography of aging, including membership in the National Academy of Sciences (3), fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2), the current winner of the Irene Taeuber Award from the Population Association of America, the Mindel Sheps Award (2), past chairs of the National Research Council Committee on Population (2) and membership on the current Council of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (1). 2. An interdisciplinary group of social science researchers with active research interests in the broad field of population aging. An NIA-funded Center on the Economics and Demography of Aging (CEDA) serves as the focal point for its member researchers, who come from such fields as business administration, demography, entomology, health economics, law, and public policy. 3. A wider group of researchers on aging in the biological sciences and in the professional schools of public health and social welfare, clustered around the Academic Geriatric Center on Aging. The in-coming Director of this Center is also Vice-Chair of CEDA and recipient of an NIA K-07 Academic Career Leadership Award to coordinate all aging-related activities in the Berkeley region. 4. The opportunity to work under mentors whose current research interests lie in one of four fields: biodemography of aging; analysis of intergenerational transfers; cross-national research on mortality at extreme ages; developing perspectives on aging grounded in evolutionary anthropology.