Center for Social and Demographic Analysis at the University at Albany, SUNY

描述（由申请人提供）：社会和人口分析中心（CSDA）在奥尔巴尼，纽约州立大学的大学正在申请其人口研究基础设施奖的延续2012-2017年期间。过去的奖项，从大学的高水平的支持相结合，使CSDA提供了一个知识的家，一个生产和跨学科的47人口研究人员，来自五个学院和11个部门。一个为期五年的奖项将使该中心能够：推进其在人口科学方面的研究议程，该议程具有弱势群体和空间不平等的标志性主题;促进其许多年轻研究人员的智力和专业发展;并继续支持和加强人口研究活动及其同事之间的知识界。的研究 CSDA的同事通过解决1.健康、健康差距和生物人口学，2。生命历程的转变，3。移民和移民，4。空间人口学。我们的同事还通过他们的数据收集工作和方法创新来增加知识。这些领域的研究由三个研究基础设施核心促进：行政，计算机和数据服务，以及发展基础设施。这些核心提供成本效益的服务，CSDA联营公司是不提供给大学在奥尔巴尼教师。拟议的基础设施奖将使我们能够充分利用大学在奥尔巴尼的计划，雇用170名教师在未来五年内，并重组我们的研究支持核心，以更有效地为我们的同事。特别是，我们计划取消公共基础设施核心，将那些已证明对CSDA同事有用的贡献转移到其他核心，并开始制定一项全面的统计举措。CSDA越来越多地以健康和生物人口学的优势以及对儿童福祉的普遍关注为特点;它扩大了教师的广度，使其更具跨学科性。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Center for Social and Demographic Analysis (CSDA) at the University at Albany, SUNY is applying for a continuation of its Population-Research Infrastructure Award for the period 2012-2017. Past awards, in combination with high levels of support from the University, have enabled CSDA to provide an intellectual home to a productive and interdisciplinary group of 47 population researchers, drawn from five Colleges and 11 Departments. A five-year award will allow the Center to: advance its research agenda in population science that bears its signature themes of vulnerable populations and spatial inequalities; foster the intellectual and professional development of its many young researchers; and continue to support and strengthen population-research activities and intellectual community among its associates. The research of CSDA's associates advances population and public health science by addressing critical questions about 1. Health, health disparities and biodemography, 2. Life Course transitions, 3. Immigration and migration, and 4. Spatial demography. Our associates also add to knowledge through their data-collection efforts and methodological innovations. Research in these areas is facilitated by three research infrastructural cores: Administrative, Computer and Data Services, and Developmental Infrastructure. These cores provide cost effective services to CSDA associates that are not available to University at Albany faculty. The proposed infrastructure award will allow us to take full advantage of the University at Albany's plan to hire 170 faculty over the next five years and reorganize our research-support cores to more efficiently serve our associates. In particular, we plan to eliminate the public infrastructure core, moving those contributions that have proven useful to CSDA associates to the other cores and begin developing a comprehensive statistical initiative. CSDA is increasingly characterized by strengths in health and biodemography and a general focus on the wellbeing of children; it has expanded the breadth of faculty to be more interdisciplinary.