Multidisciplinary Training in Population

描述(由申请者提供)：本提案是为约翰·霍普金斯大学人口学四名博士前实习生申请国家研究服务奖(NRSA)支持。该奖项将由三个系管理：公共卫生学院的人口与家庭健康科学系和文理学院的社会学与经济学系。在上一笔赠款所涉期间，11名受训人员能够从本国部门获得所选学科的明确方向，同时还接受了人口研究的广泛方法和实质性领域的严格培训。这种培训是通过课程作业、参与教员研究、参加跨学科人口研究研讨会，以及--也许同样重要--与来自许多国家的其他人口受训人员进行密集互动，使他们接触到关于人口问题和前景的许多不同观点来完成的。来自PFHS、社会学和经济学的学生之间的互动是培训计划的另一个好处。后两个系的学生更多地被吸引到人口领域--特别是在人口与健康之间建立联系。培训的必修课程包括：人口变化原理；三种人口统计方法课程、健康与终身发展课程、研究伦理课程和人口研究研讨会，所有这些都是当前培训计划的一部分。此外，还要求每个学生根据自己的研究领域选择一门生物学课程。每名实习生还必须满足博士学位的其他系课程要求。参与研究的教师有广泛的校外研究补助金，大致可分为四个实质性领域：1)性健康和生殖健康；2)青少年健康和成年过渡；3)贫困和不平等；4)老龄化和死亡率。在过去的五年里，受训人员融入了这一研究事业，并为其做出了贡献，培训教师与受训人员和其他学生之间的大量联合出版物就是明证。这笔资金的继续将使另一组人口领域的潜在领导者能够与教员一起工作，并开始在人口领域建立他们的职业生涯。主任是斯坦·贝克尔教授，他与由安德鲁·谢林、罗伯特·莫菲特、南·阿斯通和艾米·徐组成的培训委员会合作。该委员会每年将协助挑选受训人员，并为该计划提供全面指导。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal is a request for National Research Service Award (NRSA) support for four predoctoral trainees in population at the Johns Hopkins University. Three departments will administer the award: Population and Family Health Science in the School of Public Health and Sociology and Economics in the School of Arts and Sciences. In the period covered by the previous grant, eleven trainees have been able to acquire a firm orientation in their chosen disciplines from their home department, while also being rigorously trained in the broad methodological and substantive areas of population studies. This training is accomplished through course work, participation in faculty research, participation in interdisciplinary population research seminars, and-perhaps of equal importance-intensive interaction with fellow trainees in population from many countries that exposes them to many different perspectives on population problems and prospects. The interaction among students from PFHS, Sociology, and Economics is an additional benefit of the training program. Students from the latter departments are drawn more closely into the population field-and, particularly, into making the connection between population and health. Required courses for the traineeship include: Principles of Population Change; a sequence of three demographic methods courses, Health and Development across the Life Course, a research ethics course, and the population research seminar, all a part of the current training program. In addition, a biology course selected by each student according to her/his research area is required. Each trainee must meet other departmental course requirements for the doctorate as well. Participating faculty have a broad portfolio of extramural research grants that can be roughly organized into four substantive areas: 1) sexual and reproductive health; 2) adolescent health and the transition to adulthood; 3) poverty and inequality; 4) aging and mortality. Over the past five years, trainees have been integrated into and made contributions to this research enterprise, as evidenced by the large number of joint publications between training faculty and trainees and other students. The continuation of this funding will allow another group of potential leaders in the field of population to work with the faculty and begin to build their careers in population. The director is Professor Stan Becker working with a training committee composed of Andrew Cherlin, Robert Moffitt, Nan Astone and Amy Tsui. The committee will assist with selection of trainees each year and give overall guidance for the program.