Psychiatric Epidemiology Training Program

描述（由申请人提供）：精神障碍是世界上导致残疾的主要原因之一，需要改进策略来减轻他们的负担。该培训计划的目标是培养下一代精神流行病学家，他们能够通过开展研究来解决这一需求，这些研究将促进我们对精神障碍的原因和后果的理解；制定、实施和评估合理设计的干预措施，以预防和控制这些疾病；并严格审查精神卫生服务和护理系统，以改善精神卫生结果。基因组学、蛋白质组学和信息学等方面的最新科学进展为加速发现和将发现转化为公共卫生成果提供了新的机会。该培训项目将充分利用约翰霍普金斯大学丰富的生物医学研究资源，为受训者提供领导多学科研究所需的技能和经验，以利用这些新兴机会并促进心理健康。它将通过严格的课程、研究实习和综合活动计划来实现这一目标，为学员提供精神病学核心熟练程度的坚实基础，同时使他们有机会在以下四个专业领域之一进行专业培训，这些领域建立在我们部门的优势之上，并被认为是重中之重：精神疾病的遗传和环境病因学，心理健康服务和结果，心理健康和老龄化，以及全球心理健康。该项目将包括5名博士生和2名博士后，由20名核心学院和23名附属学院组成的经验丰富的团队提供支持，他们在一个或多个确定的领域拥有专业知识。受训者将准备在学术界担任领导职务，通常在公共卫生或医学学院的教师中进行心理健康研究，在政府中制定地方、州、国家和国际各级的研究重点和心理健康政策，在私营企业中为制药或其他心理健康保健提供公司进行应用研究。以及在非营利性精神卫生机构或非政府组织中倡导精神障碍患者。这个培训项目已经成功培训了30多年的精神流行病学家。该项目的前主任威廉·伊顿博士最近辞职，将领导权交给了彼得·赞迪博士。Zandi博士是该项目的毕业生，现在是一名有成就的教师，在精神障碍的遗传和药物流行病学方面拥有专业知识。在这一竞争性的更新中，他准备在该项目丰富的传统基础上建立并引领它向新的方向发展，这将为精神病学流行病学的下一代领导者做好准备，他们将推动该领域超越传统的精神障碍发病率和患病率研究（即描述性流行病学），并推动专注于病因机制，目标干预和服务交付的研究（即分析流行病学）。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Mental disorders are among the leading causes of disability in the world, and improved strategies to reduce their burden are needed. The goal of this training program is to produce the next generation of psychiatric epidemiologists who can address this need by conducting research that will advance our understanding of the causes and consequences of mental disorders; developing, implementing, and evaluating rationally designed interventions to prevent and control these disorders; and critically examining mental health services and systems of care to improve mental health outcomes. Recent scientific advances such as in genomics, proteomics, and informatics present new opportunities for accelerating the discovery and translation of findings into public health gains. This training program will capitalize on the unusually rich resources for biomedical research at the Johns Hopkins University to provide trainees with the skills and experiences needed to lead multi-disciplinary research that takes advantage of these emerging opportunities and promotes mental health. It will achieve this through a rigorous program of coursework, research apprenticeships, and integrative activities that provide trainees with a solid foundation in the core proficiencies of psychiatric epidemiology while giving them the opportunity to pursue specialized training in one of four Domains of Expertise that build on strengths within our department and are recognized as high priority: Genetic and Environmental Etiology of Mental Disorders, Mental Health Services and Outcomes, Mental Health and Aging, and Global Mental Health. The program will include 5 predoctoral students and 2 postdoctoral fellows who are supported by an experienced group of 20 Core Faculty and 23 Affiliate Faculty with expertise in one or more of the identified domains. The trainees will be prepared to assume leadership positions in academia carrying out mental health research typically on faculty in Schools of Public Health or Medicine, in government formulating research priorities and mental health policy at the local, state, national, and international levels, in private industry conducting appled research for pharmaceutical or other mental health care delivery companies, and in non-profit mental health agencies or non-governmental organizations advocating for those with mental disorders. This training program has successfully trained psychiatric epidemiologists for over 30 decades. The former Director of the program, Dr. William Eaton, recently stepped down and handed the leadership to Dr. Peter Zandi. Dr. Zandi is a graduate of the program and now an accomplished faculty member with expertise in the genetic and pharmaco-epidemiology of mental disorders. In this competing renewal, he is poised to build on the rich tradition of the program and lead it in new directions that will prepare the next generation of leaders in psychiatric epidemiology who will advance the field beyond traditional studies of the incidence and prevalence of mental disorders (i.e., descriptive epidemiology) and drive research that focuses on etiologic mechanisms, targeted interventions, and delivery of services (i.e., analytic epidemiology).