Population Research Infrastructure Support

描述（由申请人提供）：密歇根大学要求在NICHD R24人口研究基础设施计划下续期五年。密歇根大学排名靠前的社会科学系和专业学院，加上社会研究所及其人口研究中心的独特优势，使密歇根大学成为美国首屈一指的人口研究中心之一。R24基金所要求的资源将用于激励和支持密歇根杰出的跨学科人口研究团队，他们的研究组合在主题的广度、所采用方法的多样性和创新性以及专业研究议程的深度和重要性方面都是卓越的。人口研究中心是美国最大和最跨学科的人口中心之一，在八个主题领域有杰出的研究组合：(1)家庭，生育和儿童；(2)健康、残疾和死亡率；(3)人力资本、劳动与财富；(4)人口动态；(5)老龄化与生命历程；（六）人口研究方法；(7)国际人口研究；（八）人口统计资料。在这八个主题领域中，密歇根人口科学家被公认为是该专业中最具生产力和创新性的人之一，他们从NICHD、其他NIH研究所、NSF和主要基金会获得了非常重要的研究资助。密歇根大学的人口科学家们正在产生大量高质量的发现、出版物和数据集，这使得该学院获得了许多荣誉。拟议的R24基础设施计划将支持四个研究支持核心：(1)管理；(2)计算;(3)信息;(4)方法。这里提出的基础设施项目的目标是提供一个基础，以帮助维持和加强密歇根人口研究的影响力和创新项目，同时促进跨学科的倡议。基础设施项目旨在通过增加跨学科和方法边界的协同作用和合作，通过提供人口数据收集和分析方面的创新，以及进一步产生重要和创新的发现，来保持和扩展密歇根在人口研究方面的许多贡献。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The University of Michigan requests a five-year renewal of its grant under the NICHD R24 Population Research Infrastructure Program. The University's highly ranked social science departments and professional schools, combined with the unique strengths of the Institute for Social Research and its Population Studies Center, make the University of Michigan one of the country's premier centers of population research. The resources requested in this R24 grant will be used to stimulate and support Michigan's distinguished and interdisciplinary team of population researchers whose research portfolio is remarkable in the breadth of topics covered, the diversity and innovativeness of the approaches taken, and the depth and importance of specialized research agendas. The Population Studies Center is one of the largest and most interdisciplinary population centers in the United States, with a distinguished portfolio of research in eight thematic areas: (1) Family, Fertility, and Children; (2) Health, Disability, and Mortality; (3) Human Capital, Labor, and Wealth; (4) Population Dynamics; (5) Aging and the Life Course; (6) Methods for Population Research; (7) International Population Research; and (8) Data for Demographic Research. In each of these eight thematic areas Michigan population scientists are recognized as among the most productive and innovative in the profession - with a very important portfolio of research grants from NICHD, other NIH institutes, NSF, and major foundations. Michigan population scientists are producing large numbers of high quality findings, publications, and data sets, which have resulted in the faculty being recognized by their receipt of numerous honors. The proposed R24 infrastructure program will support four research support cores: (1) Administration; (2) Computing; (3) Information; and (4) Methodology. The goal of the infrastructure program proposed here is to provide a foundation that will help maintain and strengthen Michigan's influential and innovative programs of population research, while facilitating interdisciplinary initiatives. The infrastructure program has been designed to maintain and extend Michigan's many contributions to population research by increasing synergies and collaborations across disciplinary and methodological boundaries, by providing innovations in the collection and analysis of population data, and in furthering the production of important and innovative findings.