California Center for Population Research Training Program

描述（由申请人提供）：本申请要求在加州大学洛杉矶分校（UCLA）的加州人口研究中心（CCPR）进行为期五年的人口研究博士前培训计划的续期。CCPR是加州大学洛杉矶分校人口统计学研究和培训的主要中心。学院师资主要集中在社区卫生科学、经济学和社会学。最近在这些院系和校园其他地方招聘的人口统计学家增加了CCPR附属机构的数量，吸引了越来越多对人口统计感兴趣的学生。因此，我们每年申请资助8个博士预科培训名额，比2001年的培训资助名额增加4个，并于2006年续期。我们寻求更新和扩大的培训项目在加州大学洛杉矶分校ccpr协调的人口统计学培训中发挥着核心作用。它以强大的社会学、经济学和公共卫生研究生课程为基础；杰出的多学科培训师资队伍，研究范围涵盖经济、社会和健康人口统计学；以及加州大学洛杉矶分校人口研究的丰富资源。我们力求培养下一代人口统计学家，对当代相关主题进行理论了解，方法复杂的研究。我们在社会学、经济学和社区卫生科学（CHS）这三个核心系都开设了创新课程，并将人口统计学的跨学科培训纳入了他们的课程。对于更新，我们保留了成功项目的所有现有特征，增加了培训生研讨会，并重组了项目领导。保留的主要特点包括由受邀演讲者介绍的培训研讨会、指导和跨学科课程。我们增加了一个学员研讨会，在这个研讨会上，现在和过去的学员将相互介绍正在进行的工作，阅读和讨论最近的论文，并与受邀的教师嘉宾见面。我们重组了项目领导层，将当前培训委员会的管理和监督职责划分为一个小的培训委员会，该委员会将经常开会来管理培训计划，而一个更大的咨询委员会将提供监督。该项目在培养独立调查人员方面已经取得了显著的成功，这些调查人员现在在社会、经济和公共卫生人口统计学方面进行了前沿研究。在2001年以来完成博士学位的16名学员中，有8人现在是主要大学的助理教授，5人是主要大学的博士后研究员，1人是罗伯特·伍德·约翰逊（RWJ）基金会健康与社会学者。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This application requests a five-year renewal of the predoctoral training program in population studies at the California Center for Population Research (CCPR) at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). CCPR is the primary center for research and training in demography and population at UCLA. CCPR faculty are concentrated in Community Health Sciences, Economics, and Sociology. Recent hiring of demographers in these departments and elsewhere on campus has increased the number of CCPR affiliates and attracted increased numbers of students interested in demography. Accordingly, funding is requested for 8 predoctoral traineeships per year, an increase of 4 over our training grant award in 2001 and the renewal in 2006. The training program that we seek to renew and expand plays a central role in CCPR-coordinated demography training at UCLA. It builds on strong graduate programs in sociology, economics and public health; a distinguished multi-disciplinary training faculty with a diverse portfolio of research than spans economic, social, and health demography; and abundant resources for population research at UCLA. We seek to train the next generation of demographers to carry out theoretically informed, methodologically sophisticated research on topics of contemporary relevance. We have built an innovative curriculum in each of the three core departments, Sociology, Economics and Community Health Sciences (CHS) and integrated interdisciplinary training in demography into their programs. For the renewal, we retain all the existing features of the successful program, added a trainee proseminar, and reorganized the program leadership. Key features to be retained include a training seminar with presentations by invited speakers, mentorship, and cross-disciplinary coursework. We add a trainee proseminar at which current and past trainees will present ongoing work to each other, read and discuss recent papers, and meet with invited faculty guests. We have reorganized program leadership to divide the management and oversight responsibilities of the current Training Committee between a small Training Committee that will meet frequently to manage the training program, and a larger Advisory Committee that will provide oversight. The program already has a remarkable record of success at producing independent investigators who now carry out cutting-edge research in social, economic, and public health demography. Of 16 trainees since 2001 who have completed their PhD, 8 are now assistant professors at major universities, 5 are postdoctoral researchers at major universities, and 1 is a Robert Wood Johnson (RWJ) Foundation Health and Society Scholar.