NICHD Population Research Center

描述（由申请人提供）：该中心的家庭和人口研究（CFDR）在保龄球绿色州立大学（BGSU）正在申请资金，以支持一个新出现的中心，有强大的机构支持，并产生创新和政策相关的研究健康，发展和安全的儿童，青少年和家庭。我们将人口统计学与广泛的社会科学观点相结合，以确定人口事件和趋势的潜在机制。CFDR教师的优势涉及青少年发展，移民，健康和死亡率，家庭结构以及儿童和成人的福祉等主题。CFDR的大部分研究集中在高风险人群，使用多学科和多方法调查，并根据政策相关性的调查结果。CFDR由来自多个学科的高度活跃，研究活跃的教师组成。CFDR正处于增长模式，新教师的聘用和获得联邦资金的成功都带来了强劲的势头。如果没有NICHD人口研究中心计划的事先支持，CFDR教师已经做出了重大的研究贡献。 我们现在正处于一个关键阶段，NIH的资金将使我们能够提供服务，产生和支持新的研究和科学知识，否则是不可能的。 我们的研究目标是提高我们的四个核心领域（青少年发展，移民，健康，发病率和死亡率，家庭）的研究生产力，促进内部和跨学科研究，并增加外部研究资金。我们将通过投资于我们的研究支持和发展核心来实现这些目标。我们的研究支持核心侧重于智力领导和提供直接的实际研究援助。我们的目标是通过举办研讨会和讲习班来改善我们的研究环境;加强数据的获取和使用;提供编程，统计和GIS培训;提供软件;促进研究的传播;进行设备投资，并协调赠款准备和提交服务。我们的教师发展核心的使命是提供教师研究种子奖，以促进新的创新工作，跨越学科界限。来自美国国立卫生研究院的支持将通过促进教师之间的跨学科交流，提高资源获取效率，促进合作努力和提高研究生产力，为CFDR创造新的研究机会。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Center for Family and Demographic Research (CFDR) at Bowling Green State University (BGSU) is requesting funds to support a newly emerging center that has strong institutional support and generates innovative and policy-relevant research on the health, development and security of children, adolescents and families. We integrate demography with broad social scientific perspectives to identify mechanisms underlying demographic events and trends. The CFDR faculty's strengths address themes of adolescent development, immigration, health and mortality, and family structure and the well-being of children and adults. Much of the CFDR research focuses on high risk populations, uses multidisciplinary and multimethod investigations, and grounds the findings in policy relevance. The CFDR consists of a highly energized, research-active faculty from several disciplines. The CFDR is in a growth mode with strong momentum from both new faculty hires and success in obtaining federal funding. Without prior support from the NICHD Population Research Center Program, significant research contributions have been made already by the CFDR faculty. We are now at a pivotal stage in which funds from NIH would allow us to provide services that would generate and support new research and scientific knowledge that would not otherwise be possible. Our research goals are to increase research productivity in our four central domains (adolescent development, immigration, health, morbidity and mortality, and family), promote intra- and interdisciplinary research, and increase external funding for research. We will achieve these goals by investing in our Research Support and Developmental Cores. Our Research Support Core focuses on intellectual leadership and providing direct practical research assistance. We aim to improve our research environment by hosting seminars and workshops; enhancing access to and use of data; offering programming, statistical, and GIS training; supplying software; facilitating dissemination of research; making equipment investments, and coordinating services for grant preparation and submission. The mission of our Faculty Development core is to provide faculty research seed awards to promote new innovative work that crosses disciplinary boundaries. Support from NIH will create new research opportunities for the CFDR by fostering interdisciplinary exchanges among faculty, generating efficiencies in access to resources, promoting collaborative efforts, and enhancing research productivity.