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

项目总结/摘要 肯塔基州大学（英国）的BIRCWH计划围绕三个支柱建立： 跨学科研究、指导和职业发展。我们会继续提供 正式的框架，通过经验丰富的教师谁分享共同的利益， 妇女健康将提供指导，提供深入的研究经验和教学 培训初级教员。我们的目标是为英国BIRCWH学者提供 提供跨学科、有指导的职业发展经验的机会， 她们转变为独立的、由校外资助的女性健康调查人员， research.我们选择把我们的奖学金努力集中在那些普遍存在的健康挑战， 阿巴拉契亚肯塔基州。因为阿巴拉契亚地区不成比例地受到毒品的影响 虐待，暴力和健康状况不佳，我们将积极参与生活在阿巴拉契亚肯塔基州的妇女 在我们的研究议程中，研究在社区之间双向流动， 研究人员这种方法将继续为我们的BIRCWH学者提供最先进的 多学科的培训，导致他们的发展作为教师与独立的NIH和 校外资助2000年旨在改善妇女健康的重点领域 适用范围包括：1）药物滥用，2）对妇女的暴力，3）整个社会的变化。 女人的寿命通过这一BIRCWH方案，加强妇女的能力， 健康研究将通过以下目标来实现：1）提供环境， 导师和设施，以提高BIRCWH学者竞争NIH的能力 在妇女健康研究的不同领域提供研究赠款，2）加深我们对 性别在健康和疾病表现中的独特作用，3）发展和 采用新的通信和社会网络技术，解决妇女健康问题， 4)个性化的预防，诊断和治疗，以解决健康之间的差距 5）鼓励在重点领域开展新的合作， 跨学科和互动的研究领域，对于提高妇女的 6）以主题性多学科重点为平台， 基础、临床和公共卫生科学家之间的转化研究。的基础 BIRCWH计划将继续在跨学科的实践研究经验 团队由经验丰富的导师指导。正如我们的前BIRCWH的成功所证明的那样， 学者，我们有能力继续在指导我们的学者卓越的传统 成为女性健康领域的独立研究者。

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT The BIRCWH Program at the University of Kentucky (UK) is built around three pillars: interdisciplinary research, mentoring, and career development. We will continue to provide the formal framework through which experienced faculty members who share common interests in women's health will offer mentoring to provide in-depth research experiences and didactic training to junior faculty members. Our goal is to provide UK BIRCWH scholars with opportunities for an interdisciplinary, mentored career development experience to facilitate their transition to become independent, extramurally funded investigators in women's health research. We choose to focus our scholarship efforts on those health challenges prevalent 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 and extramural funding. The focused areas targeted towards improving women's health in this application include: 1) substance abuse, 2) violence against women, and 3) changes across a woman's lifespan. Through this BIRCWH program, strengthening the capacity for women's health research will be accomplished by the following 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 develop and implement new communication and social networking technologies to address women's health, 4) to personalize prevention, diagnostics, and therapeutics to address health disparities among women such as substance abuse and violence, 5) to stimulate new collaborations in focused, interdisciplinary, and interactive research areas that are essential for improving women's health; and 6) to use a thematic multidisciplinary focus as a platform for enhancing translational research between basic, clinical and public health scientists. The foundation of the BIRCWH program will continue to be practical research experiences within interdisciplinary teams guided by experienced mentors. 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.