Kentucky BIRCWH Program: Training the Next Generation of Women's Health Scholars

描述（由申请人提供）：肯塔基州大学（英国）具有独特的优势，可以继续使用卓越的研究基础设施来培养下一代女性健康学者。我们选择把我们的奖学金努力集中在这些独特的健康挑战阿巴拉契亚肯塔基州。由于阿巴拉契亚地区受药物滥用，暴力和健康状况不佳的影响不成比例，我们将积极参与妇女生活在阿巴拉契亚肯塔基州在我们的研究议程与研究社区和研究人员之间的双向流动。这种方法将继续为我们的BIRCWH学者提供最先进的多学科培训，使他们成为独立NIH资助的教师。该申请中旨在改善妇女健康的重点领域包括：1）药物滥用，2）暴力侵害妇女行为，3）妇女一生中的荷尔蒙调节。联合王国在解决暴力侵害妇女问题方面具有独特的地位，因为联合王国拥有美国唯一一个专门研究防止暴力侵害妇女问题的中心。通过该方案，将通过以下具体目标加强妇女健康研究能力：1）提供环境，指导，和设施，以提高BIRCWH学者的能力，在妇女健康研究的不同领域竞争NIH研究赠款，2）加深我们对性别的独特作用的理解健康和疾病的表现，3）鼓励在重点，跨学科和互动的研究领域进行新的合作，这对 改善妇女健康;以及4）利用主题性多学科焦点作为平台，加强基础、临床和公共卫生科学家之间的转化研究。培训的主要方面将包括：（a）将妇女健康研究中心的学者与高级科学家和前妇女健康研究中心的学者配对，组成一个研究小组，从而建立跨学科合作的模式;（B）为这些小组提供获得尖端技术的机会;（c）为学者提供与妇女健康有关的概念培训。我们的BIRCWH计划的优势是其多学科，跨部门和互动的性质定位在一个具有独特健康需求的领域。正如我们的前BIRCWH学者的成功所证明的那样，我们有能力继续指导我们的学者成为妇女健康独立研究人员的卓越传统。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The University of Kentucky (UK) is uniquely positioned to continue using exceptional and outstanding research infrastructure to train the next generation of women's health scholars. We choose to focus our scholarship efforts on those health challenges unique to Appalachian Kentucky. Because the Appalachian region is disproportionately affected by drug abuse, violence, and poor health, we will actively engage women living in Appalachian Kentucky in our research agenda with research flowing bidirectionally between communities and researchers. This approach will continue to provide our BIRCWH scholars with state-of-the-art multidisciplinary training leading to their development as faculty with independent NIH funding. The focused areas targeted towards improving women's health in this application include: 1) substance abuse, 2) violence against women, and 3) hormonal regulation across a woman's lifespan. UK is uniquely position to address violence against women because UK has the only US Center focusing on research to prevent violence against women. Through this BIRCWH program, strengthening the capacity for women's health research will be accomplished by the following Specific Aims: 1) to provide the environment, mentorship, and facilities to enhance the ability of BIRCWH scholars to compete for NIH research grants in diverse areas of women's health research, 2) to deepen our understanding of the unique role of gender in the manifestation of health and disease, 3) to stimulate new collaborations in focused, interdisciplinary, and interactive research areas that are essential for improving women's health; and 4) to use a thematic multidisciplinary focus as a platform for enhancing translational research between basic, clinical and public health scientists. Key aspects of training will include: (a) pairing the BIRCWH scholar with senior level scientists and former BIRCWH scholars forming a research team and thus modeling interdisciplinary collaboration, (b) providing these teams with access to cutting edge technologies, and (c) providing scholars with training in concepts relevant to women's health. A strength of our BIRCWH program is its multidisciplinary, cross-departmental, and interactive nature positioned in an area with unique health needs. As evident by the success of our former BIRCWH scholars, we are well positioned to continue the tradition of excellence in mentoring our scholars to become independent researchers in women's health.