CENTER FOR WOMENS HEALTH RESEARCH

该提案寻求通过完善和扩大核心活动，继续研究妇女的终身健康问题。总体目标是继续和扩大我们的研究使命，通过两个研究核心，生物行为核心，以扩大我们对女性神经内分泌、生物行为和免疫功能的理解，以及社会文化环境核心，以促进、协调和巩固在不同社会文化环境背景下的女性健康知识。我们建议开发更多的生物学措施，特别是作为连接神经内分泌和免疫系统的中介的因子。社会文化环境核心将扩大到侧重于对不同的社会文化环境进行敏感和适当的调查的新方法/措施，更加注重社会文化变量与影响健康的公共政策的交集，并更加注重将社会文化环境的知识纳入预防、干预和结果研究。研究开发和传播核心将强调对妇女健康方面的科学家的培训，利用各种媒体向专业和非专业受众传播研究成果，并扩大到包括对成果研究的重视。《妇女健康公约》的具体目标是：1)通过任命《妇女健康公约》调查员/附属机构和科学咨询委员会促进与妇女健康有关的基础和临床跨学科研究，并为试点/可行性研究提供小额赠款，以促进跨学科研究；2)通过生物行为核心实验室加强妇女健康综合知识库的发展；3)增进对社会文化环境与妇女健康之间关系的了解，并加强研究人员通过社会文化环境核心以具有文化能力的方式研究不同的妇女人口的能力；4)通过研究开发和传播核心，向各种受众传播与妇女健康有关的科学信息，包括研究人员、临床医生、妇女研究学者、政策制定者、媒体和公众，特别是妇女；以及5)通过研究开发和传播核心，在教职员工、博士后/博士后实习生和访问学者中促进有关妇女健康的研究技能和学术机会的发展。

This proposal seeks to continue research on women's health across the lifespan through refinement and expansion of core activities. The overall objectives are to continue and to expand our research mission through the 2 research cores, the Biobehavioral Core to extend our understanding of neuroendocrine, biobehavioral, and immune function in women and the Sociocultural Environments Core to advance, coordinate, and consolidate knowledge of women's health in the context of diverse sociocultural environments. We propose to develop additional biological measures, especially factors which serve as mediators connecting the neuroendocrine and immune system. The Sociocultural Environments Core will expand to focus on new methods/measures sensitive to and appropriate for investigation of diverse sociocultural environments, increase its focus on the intersection of sociocultural variables on health and public policies influencing health, and increase its focus on integrating knowledge of sociocultural environments into prevention, intervention, and outcomes research. The Research Development and Dissemination core will emphasize training of scientists in women's health, disseminate findings to professional and lay audiences using a variety of media, and expand to include an emphasis on outcomes research. Specific goals for the CWHR are: 1) facilitate basic and clinical interdisciplinary research related to women's health across the lifespan by appointment of CWHR Investigators/Affiliates and a Scientific Advisory Committee and award of small grants for pilot/feasibility studies to promote interdisciplinary research; 2) enhance development of an integrated knowledge base for women's health through the Biobehavioral Core laboratories; 3) enhance understanding of the relationship between sociocultural environments and women's health and enhance investigators' capacity to study diverse populations of women in culturally competent ways through the Sociocultural Environments Core; 4) disseminate scientific information related to women's health to various audiences, including researchers, clinicians, women studies scholars, policymakers, the media, and the general public, particularly women, through the Research Development and Dissemination Core; and 5) promote development of research skills and opportunities for scholarship about women's health among faculty, staff, pre/postdoctoral trainees, and visiting scholars via the Research Development and Dissemination Core.