Research Training Program in Substance Abuse Prevention

描述（由申请人提供）：此更新申请要求支持耶鲁大学药物滥用预防研究的T32博士后培训计划。该计划的主办网站是预防和社区研究部和咨询中心，精神病学系，耶鲁大学医学院，这是由伙伴网站加入：精神病学系药物滥用部，流行病学和公共卫生系，心理学系。耶鲁大学其他四个系和中心的教师也参加了培训计划。该申请建立在药物滥用预防研究领域非常成功的博士后招聘、培训和职业发展计划的基础上，该计划最初由NIDA于2005年资助。随着对严格的跨学科、以社区为基础的药物滥用预防研究的持续需求，要求更新资金，以维持培训方案目前的重点，即培养未来的预防科学家，从事独立调查工作。该计划完全符合NIDA在其最新战略计划中确定的研究目标以及相关的跨领域优先事项。目前的计划培养博士后研究员：1）在生态框架内了解物质使用/滥用和相关行为，强调相关的发展，神经生物学，环境和文化背景，如家庭，学校，工地，邻里和社区;（2）认识到预防科学涉及一个知识发展和应用的过程，这个过程要经过具体的阶段（干预前、干预和传播或扩大规模）; 3）应用严格的研究方法，利用先进的数据分析战略，并在适当时使用严格的混合方法设计; 4）强调跨学科和跨学科研究; 5）将研究转化为影响预防实践和政策的现实世界背景。这些计划的重点通过教学研讨会和为期两年的个性化培训经验得到加强，其中包括与两位科学顾问的密切工作关系。在过去的四年里，该计划已经培训或正在培训13名博士后研究员;六名受训人员已经完成了该计划，所有六名目前都在从事研究工作。五个在学术环境中，一个在跨学科研究组织中。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This renewal application requests support for the T32 Postdoctoral Training Program in Substance Abuse Prevention Research at Yale University. The host site for the program is the Division of Prevention and Community Research and The Consultation Center, Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, which is joined by partner sites: the Division of Substance Abuse in the Department of Psychiatry, the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, and the Department of Psychology. Yale faculty from four other departments and centers are also affiliated with the training program. This application builds on a highly successful recruitment, training, and career development program in substance abuse prevention research for postdoctoral fellows initially funded by NIDA in 2005. With continuing demand for rigorous interdisciplinary, community-based substance abuse prevention research, renewal funding is requested to sustain the training program's current focus on developing future prevention scientists for careers as independent investigators. The program is fully consistent with NIDA research objectives identified in its most recent strategic plan and with related cross-cutting priorities. The current program trains postdoctoral fellows: 1) to understand substance use/abuse and related behaviors within an ecological framework that emphasizes relevant developmental, neurobiological, environmental, and cultural contexts, such as families, schools, worksites, neighborhoods, and communities; 2) to recognize that prevention science involves a process of knowledge development and application that progresses through specific phases (pre- intervention, intervention, and diffusion or going-to-scale); 3) to apply rigorous research methodologies that utilize advanced data analytic strategies and, when appropriate, use of rigorous mixed methods designs; 4) to emphasize interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research; and 5) to translate research into real-world contexts that impact prevention practice and policy. These program emphases are reinforced through didactic seminars and individually-tailored training experiences across two years that include a close working relationship with two scientific advisors. Over the past four years, the program has trained or is currently in the process of training 13 postdoctoral fellows; six trainees have completed the program, and all six are currently engaged in a research career. Five in academic settings and one in an interdisciplinary research organization.