Society for Prevention Research Annual Meetings

描述（由申请人提供）： 本申请要求预防研究学会（SPR）从2006年1月5日至2011年4月30日的年度科学会议继续提供支持。预防科学有可能减少广泛的常见和昂贵的问题，包括儿童和青少年的问题行为，心理健康问题，有艾滋病毒/艾滋病风险的性行为，以及烟草，酒精和其他药物的使用。SPR的目标是有效地发展预防科学，这将有助于公共卫生：（1）建立一个广泛的科学论坛，交流来自日益多样化的公共卫生领域的预防科学的概念、方法和结果;（2）为培训早期职业、少数民族和成熟的科学家创造机会;（3）更好地将预防研究与日益多样化的公共卫生领域结合起来;以及（4）向科学界、决策者和普通公众传播基于预防研究的知识。SPR会议是科学家和政策制定者接触的主要论坛，早期职业研究人员与高级研究人员互动，从业人员接触他们实施的计划背后的科学研究。2005年会议的主题是“预防科学促进公共卫生：促进人民的福祉”，这代表了特别方案基金致力于研究如何有效传播以研究为基础的预防政策和方案。每一个主题都辅之以“预防研究的经济和成本效用分析”和“促进幼儿健康发展”等分主题。演讲者是从同行评审的摘要提交中选出的，代表了不同的科学观点，并分享了尖端的科学方法。SPR会议仍然是发展预防科学的主要工具。它导致确定了交叉研究和干预方法，并促进了研究各种问题的基础科学家和应用科学家之间的合作。如果提供资金支持预防科学进展绘图工作组，这些发展将进一步加快。这些跨学科科学家小组将在年度会议上组织起来，并在两年时间内得到支持，以确定和发展关于关键专题的进一步研究，包括生物和行为预防研究的一体化以及将研究转化为预防实践。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application requests continued support of the annual scientific meetings of the Society for Prevention Research (SPR) from 05/01/06 to 04/30/11. Prevention science has the potential to reduce the prevalence of a wide range of common and costly problems including problem behaviors of childhood and adolescence, mental health problems, sexual behavior that risk HIV/AIDS, and tobacco, alcohol, and other drug use. SPR's goals for the effective development of prevention science will contribute to public health: (1) establish a broad scientific forum for the exchange of concepts, methods, and results in prevention science from increasingly diverse areas of public health; (2) create opportunities for training early career, minority, and established scientists; (3) better integrate prevention research with increasingly diverse areas of public health; and (4) disseminate prevention research-based knowledge to the scientific community, policymakers, and the lay public. The SPR meeting is the primary forum in which scientists and policy makers come into contact, early career researchers interact with senior researchers and practitioners are exposed to the scientific research behind the programs they implement. The 2005 meeting theme "Prevention Science to Public Health: Promoting Well-Being in the Population" is representative of SPR's commitment to research on effective dissemination of research-based prevention policies and programs. Each theme is supported with sub-themes such as the "Economic and Cost-Utility Analysis of Prevention Research" and "Promoting Healthy Early Childhood Development". Presenters, who are selected from peer-reviewed abstract submissions, represent diverse scientific perspectives and share cutting-edge scientific methodology. The SPR meeting continues to be the primary vehicle for the development of prevention science. It has led to the identification of cross-cutting research and intervention methods and has fostered collaboration among basic and applied scientists working on diverse problems. These developments will be further accelerated if funds are awarded to support the Mapping Advances in Prevention Science (MAPS) task groups. These transdisciplinary groups of scientists will be organized at annual meetings and supported over two years to define and develop further research on critical topics, including integration of biological and behavioral prevention research and the translation of research into prevention practice.