Data Management/Statistics Core

项目总结（见说明）： 科学/行政领导核心提供科学，管理和协调结构，以确保计划项目的有效运作。科学/行政核心包括经验丰富的研究管理人员，一组外部科学顾问和一个执行指导委员会，该委员会提供跨项目和核心的科学整合，质量控制和监督。我们的具体目标分为三大领域：科学领导，指导和管理。我们的科学领导目标包括：1）为该计划项目提供全面的科学领导; 2）提供一个知识环境，以产生一个多学科研究的合作计划，以解决青少年和年轻成人烟草使用的重要问题，包括帮助计划跨项目的重叠分析; 3）为跨项目和核心的研究活动提供支持和协调; 4）维护程序项目的政策和程序（例如，出版和介绍政策，作者和合作政策）;和5）协调和促进研究成果的传播。我们的指导目标包括提供指导和职业发展机会（例如，同行评审出版物作者，国家会议演讲，论文项目）的研究生，博士后研究员和初级教师。我们的行政目标包括：1）为计划项目提供全面的行政领导和支持; 2）保持对整个计划项目的财务监督; 3）协调项目，核心和机构之间的所有网络，以确保有效的运作和及时的通信，包括维护通信工具和结构（例如，用于跨项目、核心和机构共享文档、信息的密码保护网站）。因此，该核心在该计划项目中发挥着至关重要的作用，作为研究人员小组的协调中心，整合所有活动和科学发现。这种一体化有可能导致在实地取得更大的进展。

PROJECT SUMMARY (See instructions): The Scientific/Administrative Leadership Core provides the scientific, managerial, and coordinating structure to ensure the efficient and effective functioning of the program project. The Scientific/Administrative Core includes experienced research administrators, a set of external scientific advisors, and an Executive Steering Committee that provides scientific integration, quality control, and oversight across projects and cores. Our specific aims fall under three broad domains: scientific leadership, mentoring, and administration. Our scientific leadership aims include: 1) providing overall scientific leadership to the program project; 2) providing an intellectual environment that will generate a collaborative program of multidisciplinary research to address important issues about adolescent and young adult tobacco use, including helping to plan overlapping analyses across projects; 3) providing support for and coordination of the research activities across projects and cores; 4) maintaining policies and procedures for the program project (e.g., publication and presentation policies, authorship and collaborative policies); and 5) coordinating and promoting dissemination of research findings. Our mentoring aim includes providing mentoring and career development opportunities (e.g., peer review publication authorship, national meeting presentations, dissertation projects) for graduate students, post-doctoral fellows and junior faculty. Our administrative aims include: 1) providing overall administrative leadership and support for the program project; 2) maintaining financial oversight of the entire program project; and 3) coordinating all networking between projects, cores, and Institutions to ensure efficient operations and timely communications, including the maintenance of communication vehicles and structures (e.g., password protected web sites for sharing of documents, information across projects, cores, and institutions). Thus, this core plays an essential role in this program project by serving as the coordinating center of the group of investigators and integrating all activities and scientific findings. This type of integration is likely to lead to greater progress in the field.