Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology

描述(由申请者提供)：华盛顿大学人口学和生态学研究中心(CSDE)请求支持NICHD R24人口研究基础设施奖。这一要求是基于该中心研究计划的质量及其对该领域的影响、该研究计划未来对人口科学的潜在贡献、拟议基础设施核心的质量和潜在影响、关键人员的研究能力以及华盛顿大学的S承诺和研究环境。50多年来，CSDE的教职员工一直在进行人口统计学和相关人口科学问题的研究。该中心的50名活跃的项目研究人员来自社会学、经济学、人类学、地理学、统计学、公共政策和社会福利等领域。研究人员目前是95项外部资助赠款的个人投资者或联合调查人员，其中包括56名来自NIH或NSF的研究人员。他们参与了一系列丰富的人口研究项目，这些项目围绕五个标志性主题：健康和生物人口学；经济发展和人口变化；家庭人口学；不平等：多样性和机会，以及人口统计方法。该中心庞大的、多学科的学者小组的广度促进了对推动这些主题的研究和思想的严格讨论。最近成立的家庭研究中心进一步鼓励跨学科互动。统计和社会科学中心提供了将尖端方法纳入CSDE人口研究的机会。活跃的项目研究人员包括来自西华盛顿大学和巴特尔研究所公共卫生研究和评估中心西雅图办事处的12名科学家。他们的研究直接对标志性主题做出贡献，许多人与附属于CSDE的大学研究人员合作。这项申请要求为五个研究支持核心(行政、计算、信息、统计和一个生物人口学实验室)和一个发展核心提供资金，以促进新的人口研究主题和初级科学家的发展。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The University of Washington Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology (CSDE) requests support for an NICHD R24 Population Research Infrastructure Award. This request is based on the quality of the Center's research program and its impact on the field, the potential future contributions of the research program to population science, the quality and potential impact of the proposed infrastructure cores, the research competence of the key personnel, and the University of Washington' s commitment and research environment. For more than 50 years, CSDE's faculty affiliates have conducted research on demographic and related population science issues. The Center's 50 active program researchers are drawn from the fields of sociology, economics, anthropology, geography, statistics, public policy, and social welfare. Researchers currently are PIs or co-investigators on 95 externally funded grants, including 56 from NIH or NSF. They are engaged in a rich array of population research projects that revolve around five signature themes: Health and biodemography; Economic development and demographic change; Family demography; Inequality: Diversity and opportunity, and Demographic methods. The breadth of the Center's large, multi-disciplinary group of scholars fosters rigorous discussion of research and cross-fertilization of ideas that advance these themes. The recently established Center for Research on the Family further encourages interaction across disciplinary lines. The Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences provides opportunity to incorporate cutting-edge methodology into demographic research at CSDE. The active program researchers include 12 scientists from Western Washington University and the Seattle office of the Battelle Institute's Center for Public Health Research and Evaluation. Their research directly contributes to the signature themes and many collaborate with University researchers affiliated with CSDE. This application requests funds for five research support cores (administrative, computing, information, statistics, and a biodemography laboratory) and one developmental core to foster development of new population research themes and junior scientists.