Human Biology Association 2002 Annual Meeting

描述(由申请人提供)：人类生物学协会是一个成员开放的协会，由来自不同背景的研究人员组成，他们都有兴趣了解个人和群体在健康和疾病方面的差异。该协会的宗旨是通过鼓励现有研究人员之间以及新老研究人员之间的沟通和交流思想和研究成果，促进人类生物学研究。在其存在的27年中，它成功地实现了这些目标。它的年度会议已经成为人类生物学领域研究人员的主要聚集点--这是一个跨学科的专门学科，战略上位于生命科学(生物学、遗传学、统计学)、社会/行为科学(人类学、人口学、心理学)和健康科学(流行病学、医学、产科/妇科学、儿科学、生理学、公共卫生)的交叉点。会议的三个受欢迎的特色是全体会议、珍珠纪念讲座和学生推介奖。我们建议设立两个学生旅行奖，以支持少数族裔、女性和外国学生的出席。一个由演讲者和珍珠纪念讲师组成的杰出小组已经召集起来，将“生殖成功的战略”作为2002年4月会议的主题进行讨论。全体会议及其出版的会议记录将提供一种新的视角，说明遗传、生理、社会和文化因素如何协同作用，决定生殖成功，从个人和群体两个层面进行判断。这一全体会议专题与排雷中心的使命特别相关，因为它直接涉及生殖行为和成功的原因和后果。这项请求是要求国家卫生研究院协助该协会，为2002年4月的年度会议承担这些奖项的交通费和住宿费，从而刺激青年研究人员在跨学科、人类生物学领域的持续发展，以及他们在生殖科学和妇幼保健领域发起研究的兴趣。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Human Biology Association is an open-membership society comprised of researchers from a variety of backgrounds, all of whom share an interest understanding individual and population variation in health and disease. The purpose of the Association is to foster research in human biology by encouraging communication and exchange of ideas and research results between established investigators, as well as between new and established investigators. In its 27 years of existence, it has met these goals successfully. Its annual meeting has become the primary congregating point of researchers in the field of human biology - an interdisciplinary specialization positioned strategically at the intersection of the life sciences (biology, genetics, statistics), social/behavioral sciences (anthropology, demography, psychology), and the health sciences (epidemiology, medicine, obstetrics/gynecology, pediatrics, physiology, public health). Three popular features of the meeting are the Plenary Session, Pearl Memorial Lecture, and Student Presentation Awards. We propose to create two Student Travel Awards for supporting minority, female and foreign student attendance. An outstanding panel of speakers and Pearl Memorial Lecturer has been assembled to address "Strategies for Reproductive Success" as the topic for the April 2002 meeting. The plenary session and its published proceedings will offer a novel view of the ways in which genetic, physiological, social and cultural factors act synergistically to decide reproductive success, judged at both the individual and population levels. This plenary session topic is of particular relevance to the mission of the NICHD in that it directly addresses the causes and consequences of reproductive behavior and success. This request is for the NIH to assist the Association by assuming funding of the transportation and hotel costs of these awards for the April 2002 annual meeting, thereby stimulating the continued development of young investigators in the interdisciplinary, field of human biology and their interest in initiating research in the reproductive sciences and in the areas of maternal and child health.