Columbia Population Research Center

描述(由申请人提供)：哥伦比亚人口研究中心(CPRC)寻求R24人口研究基础设施计划-NICHD/NIH人口和行为科学分部对RING计划的短期支持(PAR-07-401)。我们要求在2009年7月1日开始的五年内支付750,000美元的直接成本。CPRC有四个标志性的研究领域：(1)儿童、青年和家庭，(2)艾滋病毒/艾滋病和生殖健康，(3)移民和移民，(4)城市化。这四个领域的研究通过两个交叉主题联系在一起：(1)弱势群体的健康和福祉；(2)制定、执行和评估解决这些脆弱性的公共卫生和社会政策。我们的目标是：(1)培育哥伦比亚大学人口研究人员的充满活力的智力社区；(2)推动我们四个标志性领域的人口研究；(3)成为领先的人口中心，专门研究地方、国家和国际弱势群体的健康和福祉，以及与这些人口相关的公共政策；以及(4)利用哥伦比亚大学在纽约市的地理位置，既解决与其全球城市地位相关的特定问题或因其地位而加剧的问题，也利用和进一步发展哥伦比亚大学研究人员与当地学术、城市和国际机构之间的许多合作伙伴关系。我们将通过三个研究支持核心(管理、计算/数据/信息(GDI)和方法论)和一个发展基础设施核心来实现这些目标，该核心将促进哥伦比亚大学教职员工之间的跨学科和跨校园研究联系，他们的工作促进了这些目标的实现。在5年内，CPRC预计将有很强的竞争力获得全面的人口基础设施项目奖。CPRC由社会工作学院当代城市问题米切尔·I·金斯伯格教授欧文·加芬克尔和梅尔曼公共卫生学院临床社会医学和人口与家庭健康教授康斯坦斯·A·纳桑森共同指导。 相关性：CPRC将通过以下两种方式为公众的健康做出贡献：我们致力于消除导致健康风险的社会、经济和环境环境，特别是对因贫困、种族、民族、性别、性取向和移民身份而易受伤害的人群的风险，以及我们平等地致力于将我们的研究转化为政策，以减轻这些风险。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Columbia Population Research Center (CPRC) seeks R24 Population Research Infrastructure Program - Short-term Support for Rising Programs from the Demographic and Behavioral Sciences Branch at NICHD/NIH (PAR-07-401). We request $750,000 in direct costs over the five-year period beginning July 1, 2009. CPRC has four signature areas of research: (1) children, youth, and families, (2) HIV/AIDS and reproductive health, (3) immigration and migration, and (4) urbanism. Research In these four areas is united by two cross-cutting themes: (1) the health and well-being of vulnerable populations; and (2) the formation, implementation, and evaluation of public health and social policies that address these vulnerabilities. Our goals are to: (1) nourish a vibrant intellectual community of population researchers at Columbia University; (2) advance population research in our four signature areas; (3) become a leading population center specializing In research on the health and well being of vulnerable populations locally, nationally, and internationally, and on public policies relevant to those populations; and (4) take advantage of Columbia's location in New York City, both to address Issues specific to or aggravated by its status as a global city, and also to exploit and further develop the many partnerships between Columbia researchers and local academic, city, and International institutions. We will accomplish these goals through three research support cores (Administration, Computing/Data/information (GDI) and Methodology) and a Developmental Infrastructure Core that will foster cross-disciplinary and cross-campus research linkages among Columbia faculty whose work advances those goals. Within 5 years, CPRC expects to be highly competitive for a full-scale Population Infrastructure Program award. CPRC is co-directed by Irwin Garfinkel, Mitchell I. Ginsberg Professor of Contemporary Urban Problems in the Faculty of Social Work, and Constance A. Nathanson, Professor of Clinical Sociomedlcal Sciences and of Population and Family Health in the Mailman School of Public Health. RELEVANCE: CPRC will contribute to the public's health both by our commitment to unraveling the social, economic, and environmental circumstances that contribute to health risks, in particular risks to populations made vulnerable by poverty, race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and migrant status, and by our equal commitment to translating our research into policies to mitigate those risks.