Kentucky BIRCWH Program: Training the Next Generation of Women's Health Scholars

描述(由申请者提供)：肯塔基大学(英国)处于独特的地位，可以继续使用卓越的研究基础设施来培训下一代妇女健康学者。我们选择将我们的奖学金努力集中在阿巴拉契亚肯塔基州独有的健康挑战上。由于阿巴拉契亚地区受药物滥用、暴力和健康状况不佳的影响不成比例，我们将积极让居住在阿巴拉契亚肯塔基州的妇女参与我们的研究议程，使研究在社区和研究人员之间双向流动。这种方法将继续为我们的BIRCWH学者提供最先进的多学科培训，使他们在NIH的独立资助下发展为教师。在这一应用中，针对改善妇女健康的重点领域包括：1)药物滥用，2)对妇女的暴力，以及3)妇女一生中的荷尔蒙调节。英国在解决针对妇女的暴力问题上处于独特的地位，因为英国拥有唯一一个专注于防止针对妇女的暴力行为的研究的美国中心。通过BIRCWH计划，将通过以下具体目标加强妇女健康研究的能力：1)提供环境、指导和设施，以提高BIRCWH学者在妇女健康研究的不同领域竞争NIH研究拨款的能力；2)加深我们对性别在健康和疾病表现中的独特作用的理解；3)鼓励在重点、跨学科和互动的研究领域进行新的合作 改善妇女健康；以及4)利用专题多学科重点作为加强基础、临床和公共卫生科学家之间的转化研究的平台。培训的主要方面将包括：(A)将BIRCWH学者与高级科学家和前BIRCWH学者配对，组成一个研究小组，从而建立跨学科合作的模式，(B)为这些小组提供获得尖端技术的机会，以及(C)向学者提供与妇女健康相关概念的培训。我们BIRCWH计划的一个优势是其多学科、跨部门和互动的性质，位于一个具有独特健康需求的地区。正如我们以前的BIRCWH学者的成功所证明的那样，我们处于有利地位，能够继续卓越的传统，指导我们的学者成为妇女健康方面的独立研究人员。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The University of Kentucky (UK) is uniquely positioned to continue using exceptional and outstanding research infrastructure to train the next generation of women's health scholars. We choose to focus our scholarship efforts on those health challenges unique to Appalachian Kentucky. Because the Appalachian region is disproportionately affected by drug abuse, violence, and poor health, we will actively engage women living in Appalachian Kentucky in our research agenda with research flowing bidirectionally between communities and researchers. This approach will continue to provide our BIRCWH scholars with state-of-the-art multidisciplinary training leading to their development as faculty with independent NIH funding. The focused areas targeted towards improving women's health in this application include: 1) substance abuse, 2) violence against women, and 3) hormonal regulation across a woman's lifespan. UK is uniquely position to address violence against women because UK has the only US Center focusing on research to prevent violence against women. Through this BIRCWH program, strengthening the capacity for women's health research will be accomplished by the following Specific Aims: 1) to provide the environment, mentorship, and facilities to enhance the ability of BIRCWH scholars to compete for NIH research grants in diverse areas of women's health research, 2) to deepen our understanding of the unique role of gender in the manifestation of health and disease, 3) to stimulate new collaborations in focused, interdisciplinary, and interactive research areas that are essential for improving women's health; and 4) to use a thematic multidisciplinary focus as a platform for enhancing translational research between basic, clinical and public health scientists. Key aspects of training will include: (a) pairing the BIRCWH scholar with senior level scientists and former BIRCWH scholars forming a research team and thus modeling interdisciplinary collaboration, (b) providing these teams with access to cutting edge technologies, and (c) providing scholars with training in concepts relevant to women's health. A strength of our BIRCWH program is its multidisciplinary, cross-departmental, and interactive nature positioned in an area with unique health needs. As evident by the success of our former BIRCWH scholars, we are well positioned to continue the tradition of excellence in mentoring our scholars to become independent researchers in women's health.