INTERNATIONAL TRAINING IN POPULATION, HEALTH AND AGING

北卡罗来纳大学教堂山分校（UNC-CH）卡罗莱纳人口中心（CPC）的研究人员在国际环境中建立了一系列合作关系，研究与快速社会变化、环境以及胎儿和婴儿营养不良的长期影响相关的人口和健康问题。我们的合作是独一无二的，因为它们是围绕长期合作项目组织的，包括纵向数据收集以及广泛的基于各种主题的实质性研究。合作者是中国著名的研究机构（中国预防医学研究院，北京；CAPM）；菲律宾（圣卡洛斯大学人口研究办公室，项目事务处）；泰国（玛希隆大学人口与社会研究所；IPSR）；俄罗斯（俄罗斯医学科学院俄罗斯营养研究所和俄罗斯科学院社会学研究所）；厄瓜多尔（生态科学基金会，以下简称生态科学基金会）和人口与社会发展研究中心（CEPAR）。

DESCRIPTION: (Adapted from the Applicant's Description) Researchers at the Carolina Population Center (CPC) of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) have established a set of collaborations in international settings to study population and health issues associated with rapid societal change, the environment, and the long-term effects of fetal and infant under nutrition. Our collaborations are unique in that they are organized around long-term collaborative projects that include longitudinal data collection as well as broadly based substantively oriented research on a wide variety of topics. The collaborators are eminent research institutions in China (Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine, Beijing; CAPM); the Philippines (Office of Population Studies at the University of San Carlos, OPS); Thailand (Institute of Population and Social Research, Mahidol University; IPSR); Russia (the Russian Institute of Nutrition, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences (RIN) and Institute of Sociology, Russian Academy of Science (IS); and Ecuador (Fundacion Ecociencia, hereafter Ecociencia) and Centro de Estudios sobre Poblacion y Desarrollo Social (Center for the Study of Population and Social Development, or CEPAR. The proposed grant consists of mix of short-, medium-, and long-term training of researchers, graduate students, and established scholars. The current and proposed Fogarty support made it possible to have wide-ranging discussions with our collaborators about broader institutional goals and the types of skills and capacity they would like to develop, and to act on those discussions. This proposed continuation grant allows us to further both our broad-based and specific training goals by bringing faculty from UNC-CH or elsewhere to their institutions, by having our collaborators come to UNC, or by sending them to regional workshops. These efforts resulted in development of skills in state of the art measurement and analytic techniques and publications in top international journals. We were also able to help recent Ph.D.'s from UNC-CH to establish research programs and facilities in their home institution, facilitating their return and future productivity. Based on the success of the first Fogarty grant, we propose a second that will consolidate and extend the gains made so far in our collaborations with the CAPM, OPS and IPSR and to broaden our reach through the addition of two new collaborating countries with two institutions in Ecuador and Russia.