MULTIDISCIPLINARY TRAINING IN POPULATION

描述（由申请人提供）：人口与家庭健康科学系、社会学系和经济系联合请求支持约翰霍普金斯大学的人口研究多学科培训。该提案要求支持6名博士预科生。约翰霍普金斯大学在人口研究和培训方面有着悠久的历史，主要位于卫生和公共卫生学院（SHPH）。学院的多学科、跨国环境是拟议项目的主要优势。受训人员将从所有三个部门中抽取，从而形成一个庞大而合格的受训人员候选人库。他们将在自己的专业完成学位要求。人口学和人口学的核心课程要求将在公共卫生学院完成。SHPH将提供共同的物理空间，以及各种与培训相关的活动和研究机会，这将有助于三个部门之间的计划整合。17名来自不同学科背景并共同致力于人口研究的霍普金斯大学教员组成了本项目的培训教员。教师在人口与健康、贫困与福利这两个广泛领域的深入研究，反映在教师之间以及教师与学生之间的合作研究中，这是该项目的第二个优势，为学生提供了参与和发起美国和发展中国家研究的机会。申请人描述的项目吸引了优秀的学生，提供了优秀的培训，并培养了非常成功的毕业生。然而，虽然申请人能够资助国际学生进行人口研究，但她对来自美国的学生几乎没有支持。这项建议的目的是弥补这一缺陷。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Departments of Population and Family Health Sciences, Sociology, and Economics join in requesting support for multidisciplinary training in population research at the Johns Hopkins University. This proposal asks support for six predoctoral trainees. Johns Hopkins University has a long history of research and training in population, located primarily in the School of Hygiene and Public Health [SHPH]. The School's multidisciplinary, multinational environment is a major strength of the proposed program. Trainees will be drawn from all three departments, making for a large and well-qualified pool of traineeship candidates. They will complete degree requirements in their home department. Core course requirements in demography and population will be completed at the SHPH. Common physical space to be provided at SHPH, along with a variety of training-related activities and research opportunities, will contribute to integration of the program across the three departments. Seventeen Hopkins faculty members from a range of disciplinary backgrounds and with a common commitment to population research constitute the training faculty for this program. The depth of faculty research in the two broad areas of population and health, and poverty and welfare, as reflected in collaborative research among the faculty and between faculty and students, are a second strength of this program, offering opportunities for students to participate in, and to initiate, research both in the U.S. and in developing countries. The program that the applicant describes attracts outstanding students, provides excellent training, and produces highly successful graduates. However, while the applicant is able to fund international students in population research, she has little support for students from the United States. The purpose of this proposal is to remedy that deficiency.