Interdisciplinary Training in Maternal and Child Obesity

描述（由申请人提供）：我们提出了一个博士前培训计划，题为“母婴肥胖（MCOB）培训”，其重点是孕产妇和儿童超重和肥胖。肥胖症已被确定为全球流行病和公共卫生优先事项。肥胖是一个复杂的健康问题，其原因从细胞和分子到社区和社会因素。解决肥胖问题需要密集的跨学科方法。拟议的培训补助金的总体目标是培训新一代研究人员，为他们提供关于这种多因素疾病的跨学科视角。该培训计划从生命历程的角度研究肥胖症，重点关注肥胖症在特别脆弱时期的发展。担任培训员的25名教师代表了查佩尔山的北卡罗来纳州大学公共卫生、医学、护理、新闻和大众传播学院以及文理学院的12个系。该培训计划将受益于美国查佩尔山强大的肥胖研究计划，该计划包括NIH路线图资助的跨学科肥胖中心（IDOC），NIDDK资助的临床营养研究中心（CNRC）以及其他强大的研究中心，如CDC资助的健康促进和疾病预防中心（HPDP）和卡罗莱纳人口中心（CPC）。拟议的培训计划脱颖而出，因为它（1）跨学科，生命历程的方法来解决孕产妇和儿童超重和肥胖，（2）关注环境因素以及与身体活动和饮食有关的个人行为，（3）强调整合和翻译营养，生物化学，生理学，遗传学和流行病学的基础知识和发现，肥胖的行为和环境方法;和（4）优秀的教师导师谁将作为榜样，在肥胖研究卓越。培训将包括肥胖症和体育活动的专门课程，孕产妇和儿童肥胖症研究方面的强有力指导，参与重点和跨学科研究的机会以及正在进行的与肥胖症有关的系列研讨会。肥胖被认为是美国和全球的主要健康问题。目前缺乏训练有素的博士生，他们对肥胖有着广泛的理解，沿着有专门的社会、行为、基础科学、生物医学和公共卫生领域的培训。我们的目标是开始培训下一代学者来解决这个问题。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We propose a predoctoral training program, entitled "Maternal-Child Obesity (MCOB) Training" whose focus is maternal and child overweight and obesity. Obesity has been identified as a worldwide epidemic and public health priority. Obesity is a complex health problem with causes ranging from cellular and molecular to community and societal factors. Addressing obesity requires an intensive interdisciplinary approach. The overarching goal of the proposed training grant is to train a new generation of researchers, providing them with an interdisciplinary perspective on this multifactorial disease. The training program takes a life course perspective on the study of obesity, focusing attention on the development of obesity at particularly vulnerable periods. The 25 faculty serving as trainers represent 12 departments in the Schools of Public Health, Medicine, Nursing, Journalism and Mass Communication, and the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The training program will benefit from UNC Chapel Hill's strong obesity research program that features a NIH Roadmap-funded Interdisciplinary Obesity Center (IDOC), an NIDDK-funded clinical nutrition research center (CNRC), and other strong research centers such as the CDC-funded Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Center (HPDP) and the Carolina Population Center (CPC). The proposed training program stands out because of its (1) interdisciplinary, life course approach in addressing maternal and child overweight and obesity, (2) focus on environmental factors as well as individual behaviors related to physical activity and diet, and (3) emphasis on integration and translation of basic knowledge and discoveries from nutrition, biochemistry, physiology, genetics, and epidemiology, to behavioral and environmental approaches to obesity; and (4) outstanding faculty mentors who will serve as role models for excellence in obesity research. Training will consist of specialized courses in obesity and physical activity, strong mentoring in maternal and child obesity research, opportunities to participate in focused and interdisciplinary research and a strong ongoing obesity-related seminar series. Obesity is recognized as a major health problem in the US and globally. There is a dearth of well-trained individuals with doctorates who have a broad-based understanding of obesity along with training in specific social, behavioral, basic science, biomedical and public health fields. Our goal is to begin to train the future generation of scholars for tackling this problem.