Center for Social and Demographic Analysis at the University at Albany, SUNY

描述(由申请者提供)：纽约州立大学奥尔巴尼分校的社会和人口分析中心(CSDA)正在申请延续其2012-2017年的人口研究基础设施奖。过去的奖项，再加上大学的高度支持，使CSDA能够为一个由来自5个学院和11个系的47名人口研究人员组成的富有成效的跨学科研究小组提供一个智力之家。一项为期五年的奖励将使该中心能够：推进其人口科学研究议程，以弱势人口和空间不平等为其标志性主题；促进其许多年轻研究人员的智力和专业发展；并继续支持和加强其同事中的人口研究活动和智力社区。关于网络安全问题的研究 CSDA的同事们通过解决以下关键问题来推进人口和公共卫生科学：1.健康、健康差距和生物人口学；2.生命历程转变；3.移民和迁徙；4.空间人口学。我们的同事还通过他们的数据收集工作和方法创新来增加知识。这些领域的研究由三个研究基础设施核心推动：行政、计算机和数据服务以及发展基础设施。这些核心为CSDA员工提供成本效益高的服务，而奥尔巴尼大学的教职员工无法获得这些服务。拟议的基础设施奖将使我们能够充分利用奥尔巴尼大学在未来五年招聘170名教师的计划，并重组我们的研究支持核心，以更有效地为我们的同事服务。特别是，我们计划取消公共基础设施核心，将那些已证明对CSDA伙伴有用的贡献转移到其他核心，并开始制定一项全面的统计倡议。CSDA在健康和生物人口学方面的优势日益突出，并普遍关注儿童的福祉；它扩大了教员的广度，使其更具跨学科性质。 公共卫生相关性：CSDA支持人口动态研究，重点关注脆弱人口和空间不平等(独特的环境经验)。除了对移民和居住隔离的研究外，还越来越重视健康和生物人口学，其中很好地反映了健康、疾病、生长和发展的早期起源，以及生命过程主题中的行为和认知。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Center for Social and Demographic Analysis (CSDA) at the University at Albany, SUNY is applying for a continuation of its Population-Research Infrastructure Award for the period 2012-2017. Past awards, in combination with high levels of support from the University, have enabled CSDA to provide an intellectual home to a productive and interdisciplinary group of 47 population researchers, drawn from five Colleges and 11 Departments. A five-year award will allow the Center to: advance its research agenda in population science that bears its signature themes of vulnerable populations and spatial inequalities; foster the intellectual and professional development of its many young researchers; and continue to support and strengthen population-research activities and intellectual community among its associates. The research of CSDA's associates advances population and public health science by addressing critical questions about 1. Health, health disparities and biodemography, 2. Life Course transitions, 3. Immigration and migration, and 4. Spatial demography. Our associates also add to knowledge through their data-collection efforts and methodological innovations. Research in these areas is facilitated by three research infrastructural cores: Administrative, Computer and Data Services, and Developmental Infrastructure. These cores provide cost effective services to CSDA associates that are not available to University at Albany faculty. The proposed infrastructure award will allow us to take full advantage of the University at Albany's plan to hire 170 faculty over the next five years and reorganize our research-support cores to more efficiently serve our associates. In particular, we plan to eliminate the public infrastructure core, moving those contributions that have proven useful to CSDA associates to the other cores and begin developing a comprehensive statistical initiative. CSDA is increasingly characterized by strengths in health and biodemography and a general focus on the wellbeing of children; it has expanded the breadth of faculty to be more interdisciplinary. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: CSDA supports research in population dynamics, focusing on vulnerable populations and spatial inequalities (distinct environmental experiences). In addition to research on immigration and residential segregation, there is increasing emphasis on health and biodemography where early origins of health, disease, growth and development are well represented, as is behavior and cognition in the life course theme.