Research Training Program in Substance Abuse Prevention

描述(由申请人提供)：此续签申请请求支持耶鲁大学物质滥用预防研究的T32博士后培训计划。该计划的主办网站是耶鲁大学医学院精神病学系预防和社区研究司和咨询中心，合作伙伴网站包括精神病学系药物滥用司、流行病学和公共卫生系以及心理学系。耶鲁大学其他四个系和中心的教职员工也参与了这个培训项目。这项申请建立在一个非常成功的招聘、培训和职业发展计划的基础上，该计划针对2005年由NIDA最初资助的博士后研究人员进行药物滥用预防研究。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计划目前的重点，即培养未来的预防科学家，使其成为独立调查人员。该计划完全符合NIDA在其最新战略计划中确定的研究目标和相关的交叉优先事项。目前的计划培养博士后研究员：1)在强调相关发展、神经生物学、环境和文化背景的生态框架内理解物质使用/滥用和相关行为，如家庭、学校、工作场所、社区和社区；2)认识到预防科学涉及知识发展和应用的过程，通过特定阶段(预干预、干预和扩散或扩大规模)；3)应用严格的研究方法，利用先进的数据分析策略，并在适当的情况下，使用严格的混合方法设计；4)强调跨学科和跨学科研究；以及5)将研究转化为影响预防实践和政策的现实环境。这些计划的重点通过教学研讨会和两年来个人定制的培训经验得到加强，其中包括与两名科学顾问的密切工作关系。在过去的四年里，该计划已经培训或目前正在培训13名博士后研究员；6名学员已经完成了该计划，目前所有6名学员都在从事研究工作。五人在学术环境中，一人在跨学科研究机构。

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.