Guttmacher Center for Population Research Innovation and Dissemination

描述（由申请人提供）：古特马赫研究所是美国领先的专注于生育和生殖健康的独立研究机构，现寻求NICHD专业研究基础设施资助，以支持和扩展古特马赫人口研究创新和传播中心。在这种支持下，中心将加强研究所的传播能力，为外地的研究人员和一般公众提供服务和教育，扩大研究所自己的研究人员的培训和发展活动并使其正式化，并与同事组织建立合作关系。该中心包括来自人口统计学、社会学、流行病学、经济学和公共卫生等学科的17名人口科学家，以及其他19个附属机构和技术贡献者。中心的标志性主题是生育和生殖健康；中心附属机构共同对这一研究领域作出了广泛的贡献和发表了大量的文章，包括关于生育偏好、怀孕意图和怀孕结果的工作；性行为、避孕药具使用和避孕服务；青少年性健康和生殖健康。专题问题小组和中心附属机构就其正在进行的研究征求反馈的系列研讨会，以及与世卫组织、哥伦比亚大学、约翰霍普金斯大学和其他机构的合作，支持研究所的研究目标和中心附属机构的工作。中心的行政核心将目前由研究人员执行的行政任务转移给行政人员，并通过增加员工培训提高项目管理技能，从而提高中心附属机构的工作效率。发展基础设施核心加强与其他机构的研究合作，并为中心各级附属机构提供专业发展。传播核心通过促进公共使用数据集的有效创建、提供如何解释研究成果的公众教育、指导研究人员在同行评审期刊上发表文章以及加强中心附属机构研究成果的传播机制，加强信息获取。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Guttmacher Institute, the leading independent research organization in the U.S. entirely focused on fertility and reproductive health, seeks an NICHD Specialized Research Infrastructure Grant in order to support and expand the Guttmacher Center for Population Research Innovation and Dissemination. With this support, the Center will enhance the Institute's dissemination capabilities to serve and educate both researchers in the field and the general public, expand and formalize training and development activities for the Institute's own researchers, and build collaborations with colleague organizations. The Center includes 17 population scientists from the disciplines of demography, sociology, epidemiology, economics and public health, along with 19 other affiliates and technical contributors. The signature theme of the Center is fertility and reproductive health; Center affiliates have collectively made extensive contributions and publications to this area of study, including work on fertility preferences, pregnancy intentions and pregnancy outcomes; sexual behavior, contraceptive use and contraceptive services; and adolescent sexual and reproductive health. Thematic issue teams and a seminar series in which Center affiliates solicit feedback on their ongoing research, as well as collaborations with WHO, Columbia, Johns Hopkins and others, support the Institute's research objectives and the work of Center affiliates. The Center's Administrative Core makes the work of Center affiliates more efficient by shifting administrative tasks currently performed by researchers to administrative staff and improving project management skills through increased staff training. The Developmental Infrastructure Core strengthens research collaborations with other institutions and provides professional development to Center affiliates at all levels. The Dissemination Core strengthens access to information by facilitating efficient creation of public-use datasets, providing public education o how to interpret research findings, guiding researchers on publishing in peer-reviewed journals, and enhancing mechanisms for the dissemination of research findings of Center affiliates.