UNC Interdisciplinary Obesity Training (IDOT)(RMI)

描述（由申请人提供）：可以说，肥胖以及相关的缺乏体育活动和饮食模式是美国今天和可预见的未来的主要公共卫生挑战。在美国，预防和治疗肥胖的方法非常有限。很明显，要遏制肥胖的流行，需要戏剧性的新思维。一个有效的策略需要一种综合的跨学科方法，它将广泛的科学家和专门研究肥胖的实践者聚集在一起，以培养下一代的研究人员。拟议的跨学科肥胖培训计划（iDOT）将指导博士后学者。主要目的是培养学者在跨学科的学习和研究环境中工作，目标是确定预防和治疗肥胖的有效干预措施。肥胖必须在一个复杂的、个性化的近端和远端生物、社会心理和环境因素系统中加以解决，并采用密集的跨学科方法。根据这种方法，iDOT项目将建立在选定的UNC-CH中心成功但有限的跨学科培训努力以及北卡罗来纳大学的合作研究和培训环境之上。来自营养学、流行病学、健康行为、心理学、城市规划、大众传播、市场营销、卫生经济学、生理学、遗传学和临床医学等不同学科的研究人员将共同开发和领导这一综合培训工作。学员将从多个学科和院系中选拔，通过综合核心培训结合跨学科研讨会、浸入式务虚会和跨学科研究，获得技能和重点，成为下一代优秀的跨学科肥胖学者。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Obesity together with associated poor physical activity and dietary patterns represent, arguably, the major public health challenge in the United States today and for the foreseeable future. Approaches to obesity prevention and treatment in the U.S. have been remarkably narrow. It is clear that dramatic new thinking is required to arrest the obesity epidemic. An effective strategy requires an integrated interdisciplinary approach, which brings together a broad range of scientists and practitioners who specialize in obesity, to train the next generation of researchers. The proposed Inter-Disciplinary Obesity Training program (iDOT) will mentor postdoctoral scholars. The primary aim is to train scholars to work in an interdisciplinary learning and research environment with the goal of defining effective interventions for the prevention and treatment of obesity. Obesity must be addressed within a complex, individualized system of proximal and distal biological, psychosocial and environmental factors, using an intensive interdisciplinary approach. From this approach, the iDOT program will build on the successful but limited interdisciplinary training efforts at selected UNC-CH centers, and the collaborative research and training environment at the University of North Carolina. Researchers from varied disciplines such as nutrition, epidemiology, health behavior, psychology, urban planning, mass communications, marketing, health economics, physiology, genetics, and clinical medicine will jointly develop and lead this integrated training effort. Trainees will be selected from a range of disciplines and departments, and through integrated core training combined with interdisciplinary seminars, immersion retreats and interdisciplinary research, gain the skills and focus to become the next generation of outstanding interdisciplinary obesity scholars.