Incorporating a Biomedical Perspective in Population-Based Research

描述（由申请人提供）：下一代人口研究人员必须准备好迎接整合社会、行为和生物医学研究视角的挑战，以解决人口的健康和福利问题。发展多学科研究团队需要了解不同学科的观点，获得这些学科的基本训练以及如何将它们整合是至关重要的。拟议的培训方案的总目标是使当前和未来的人口研究人员具备处理这一新的研究议程的多学科挑战所需的技能。实现这些培训目标的具体活动包括：(1)在研究生阶段开设一个学期的课程，将人口统计学、流行病学和生物医学方法结合起来，在大规模样本调查（如全国青少年健康纵向研究）的背景下收集、分析和解释生物标志物；(2)将本学期的课程压缩为为期一周的暑期强化课程，针对有兴趣获得将生物标志物收集纳入其研究的实践知识的人口研究专业人员；(3)加强现有的卡罗莱纳人口中心生物医学核心网站，使这两门课程中使用的信息更广泛地提供给人口研究界；(4)制定本科实习计划，重点是吸引和培养代表性不足的少数民族，以便在人口与健康科学的交叉领域进行未来的研究。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The next generation of population researchers must be prepared to meet the challenges of integrating social, behavioral, and biomedical research perspectives to address the health and welfare of the population. Developing multidisciplinary research teams requires an understanding of the perspectives of the different disciplines, and gaining the basic training in those disciplines and how to integrate them is critical. The overall goal of the proposed training program is to equip current and future population researchers with the skills needed to address the multidisciplinary challenges of this new research agenda. Specific activities to achieve these training goals include: (1) develop a semester-long course at the graduate level that integrates demographic, epidemiological, and biomedical approaches to the collection, analysis, and interpretation of biomarkers in the context of large-scale sample surveys such as the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health; (2) condense the semester-long course into an intensive one-week summer course targeted to population research professionals who are interested in gaining the practical knowledge to integrate collection of biomarkers into their research; (3) enhance the existing Carolina Population Center Biomedical Core website to make the information used in both of these courses more broadly available to the population research community; (4) develop an undergraduate intern program that focuses on attracting and preparing under-represented minorities for future research at the intersection of the population and health sciences.