Graduate Training in Demography

描述(由申请者提供)：我们请求继续向宾夕法尼亚大学提供NICHD人口学培训补助金。拟设6个博士前职位。我们不是在申请博士后职位。我们描述的项目延续了宾夕法尼亚州立大学在人口学培训方面的长期优秀传统，并通过NICHD培训赠款提供支持。在下一个赠款期间，通过更好地整合人口与健康之间关系的理解方面的进展，以及人口学家和其他社会科学家可用来解决人口健康和福祉研究中的社会、政策和公共卫生挑战的方法工具，该方案得到了加强。宾夕法尼亚大学人口学博士前课程的主要目标是培养独立的研究人员，他们准备在社会人口学和人口分析方面发挥主导作用，包括人类人口的增长、结构、健康和福祉。这一目标是通过(I)在人口学和相关学科的方法、理论方法和经验实质方面的密集教学；以及(Ii)逐步将学生纳入最终将分支到独立研究的教师研究活动中来实现的。实现这一目标的核心是让学生了解人口学家的工作方式。人口学代表了一种研究社会现象的方法，这种方法在重要方面有别于社会科学中的其他方法，与美国和国外的社会和卫生政策相关，处于几个学科的结合点。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We are requesting a continuation of the NICHD training grant in demography to the University of Pennsylvania. Six pre-doctoral positions are proposed. We are not requesting postdoctoral positions. The program we describe continues Penn's longstanding tradition of excellence in training in demography with support through a NICHD training grant. For the next grant period the program is enhanced by a better integration of advances in the understanding of the relationship between populations and health and in the methodological tools available for demographers and other social scientists to address the social, policy and public health challenges in the study of health and well-being of populations. The principal aim of the demography pre-doctoral program at the University of Pennsylvania is to train independent researchers who are prepared to play leading roles in social demography and population analysis, including the growth, structure, health and well-being of human populations. This goal is achieved through (i) intensive instruction in the methods, theoretical approaches, and empirical substance of demography and allied disciplines; and (ii) progressive incorporation of students into faculty research activities that will eventually branch into independent research. Central to the achievement of this goal is exposure of students to the demographer's modus operandi. Demography represents an approach to studying social phenomena that is-in important dimensions-distinct from other approaches in the social sciences, is relevant to social and health policies in the U.S. and abroad, and lies at the nexus of several disciplines.