Nutrition Sciences and Health

这是一项由营养与健康管理的培训补助金的竞争性延续提案 埃默里大学的科学(NHS)项目。培训补助金对于稳定和 NHS计划的发展，该计划成立于1993年。在这两笔资金的持续时间内 在1996-01和2002-06两个周期中，基金资助了22名博士生；12名完成了 博士学位，而其余的人仍然居住在那里，状态良好。这些学员获得了无数奖项 和奖学金，在国内和国际会议上介绍了他们的工作，并发表了许多 发表在被引用期刊上的文章。大多数毕业生都在学术界和政府部门找到了很有前途的职位 公共部门或私营部门。 营养学领域的复杂性使得学生在营养学研究方面的训练尤为突出 具有挑战性，因为学生必须在关键专业领域获得深度，同时学习如何在 许多学科之间的接口本身正在迅速变化。NHS计划就是一个典范 进行这种跨学科的培训。英国国民健康保险制度提供跨学科的严格培训 从基础科学到临床研究再到公共卫生，并为学生提供必要的 调查营养与人类健康关系的技能，包括预防和控制 国家和全球关注的营养问题和相关疾病。NHS计划不包括 任何一个系的行政管理；相反，它的教职员工来自整个大学(主要来自 医学院和公共卫生学院的院系)和位于埃默里的两个机构 校园，即疾病控制和预防中心(CDC)和美国癌症协会。 由于埃默里大学强调博士项目的增长，也是因为 为了满足NHS计划申请者的需求，我们要求增加实习生人数，从 每年四到六次。博士前培训计划包括核心课程和选修课程，3 指导研究项目和论文研究。我们还要求，作为对 格兰特，在2-5年级每年提供两个博士后实习生职位(共4个实习生，每人最多 培训期间的两年)。强大的研究环境为研究提供了许多机会 以及对博士后候选人的指导。

This is a competing continuation proposal for a training grant administered by the Nutrition and Health Sciences (NHS) program of Emory University. The training grant has been critical for stability and development of the NHS program, which was established in 1993. Over the duration of the two funding cycles (1996-01 and 2002-06), funds have supported 22 doctoral students; twelve have completed their PhD, while the rest are still in residence and in good standing. These trainees have won numerous awards and fellowships, have presented their work at national and international meetings, and have published many articles in refereed journals. Most graduates have gone on to promising positions in academia and in the public or private sector. The complexities of the field of nutrition make the training of students in nutrition research particularly challenging because students must acquire depth in key specialized areas while learning how to function at the interfaces among many disciplines that are, themselves, changing rapidly. The NHS program is a model for such interdisciplinary training. The NHS offers rigorous interdisciplinary training that spans the spectrum from basic sciences through clinical research to public health, and provides students with the necessary skills to investigate the relationship between nutrition and human health, including the prevention and control of nutritional problems and related diseases of national and global concern. The NHS program is not housed administratively in any one department; rather, its faculty come from across the university (primarily from departments in the schools of medicine and public health) and from two institutions located on the Emory campus, namely The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the American Cancer Society. As a result of the emphasis at Emory on growth of doctoral programs and also because of a strong demand from applicants to the NHS program, we are requesting an increase in the number of trainees, from four to six per year. The training program for predoctoral students consists of core and elective courses, 3 mentored research projects, and dissertation research. We are also requesting, as a new addition to the grant, two postdoctoral traineeships during each of years 2-5 (a total of 4 trainees, each for a maximum of two years over the training period). A strong research environment provides many opportunities for research and mentoring of postdoctoral candidates.