Graduate Training in Demography

描述(由申请人提供)：宾夕法尼亚大学人口学研究生组申请资金，为六名博士前学生提供人口学培训。目前的培训方案要求续签，有六个已获批准的博士前职位，其中五个已获得资助。博士前课程由人口学研究生小组管理，该小组是人口研究中心的18名教员，具有社会学、经济学、人口学、护理和医学背景。人口学博士前课程的主要目标是培养独立的研究人员，他们准备在正式的人口学、社会人口学、人口分析和人口健康研究方面发挥主导作用。这一目标是通过密集教授人口学和相关学科的方法、理论方法和经验结果来实现的；并逐步将学生纳入教师的研究活动，最终导致独立研究。该培训计划反映了人口研究中心对美国和发展中国家弱势群体的人口变化和健康的重视。人口学研究生小组在NICHD的支持下，几十年来证明了它可以招收有才华、有前途的学生，并为他们从事富有成效的职业做好准备。宾夕法尼亚大学自1996年以来拥有人口学学位的博士占23个终身教职或终身教职的学术职位。在过去的十年里，27名博士前学生成为了NICHD的实习生。我们显示，绝大多数人已经开始或正在走向人口和卫生领域的强劲职业生涯。招募和培训人数不足的少数群体成员--特别是非洲裔美国人--一直是人口研究中心的一个重点。培养了一批社会化程度高、训练有素的少数族裔候选人的“支线计划”已经开始产生大量的博士后就业机会。我们相信，我们现在处于一个有效的“稳定状态”，可以继续高水平地招募和培训相当数量的人口学者，无论是少数族裔还是非少数族裔。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Graduate Group in Demography at the University of Pennsylvania requests funds to provide training in demography to six pre-doctoral students. The current training program, for which renewal is requested, has six approved pre-doctoral positions, of which five have been funded. The pre-doctoral program is administered by the Graduate Group in Demography, 18 faculty members within the Population Studies Center with backgrounds in sociology, economics, demography, nursing, and medicine. The principal aim of the demography pre-doctoral program is to train independent researchers who are prepared to play leading roles in formal demography, social demography, population analysis, and the study of the health of populations. This goal is achieved through intensive instruction in the methods, theoretical approaches, and empirical results of demography and allied disciplines; and progressive incorporation of students into faculty research activities that will eventually lead to independent research. The training program reflects the Population Studies Center's emphasis on population change and health among disadvantaged groups-in the United States and in the developing world. The Graduate Group in Demography, with support from the NICHD, has demonstrated over several decades that it can recruit talented, promising students, and prepare them for productive careers. Ph.D.s from Penn with Demography degrees since 1996 account for 23 tenured or tenure-track academic positions. In the past ten years, 27 pre-doctoral students have been NICHD trainees. We show that the vast majority have started, or are on their way to strong careers in population and health. The recruitment and training of members of under-represented minorities-African- Americans in particular-has been a point of emphasis for the Population Studies Center. A "feeder program" that created a pool of well-socialized and trained minority candidates has begun to yield significant placements post-Ph.D. We believe that we are now in an effective "steady state" that can continue to recruit and train at a high level a reasonable number of population scholars, minority and non-minority alike.