California Center for Population Research Training Proposal

项目总结/摘要 本申请要求在人口和社会学博士前培训计划的五年更新， 加州人口中心的人口研究主要集中在儿童健康和人类发展方面 加州大学洛杉矶分校（UCLA）的人权研究（CCPR）。公民权利和政治权利委员会是 在加州大学洛杉矶分校从事人口学和人口研究和培训。公民权利和政治权利中心的教师集中在社会学， 经济学和社区健康科学，人口科学家研究的三个主要学科 在美国接受训练，以及相关领域，例如，地理，公共政策最近雇用人口 科学家们增加了公民权利和政治权利委员会附属机构的数量，吸引了越来越多的学生感兴趣， 在人口统计学和人口研究中。因此，要求为6个博士前培训名额提供资金， 2006年和2011年，我们的培训补助金比2001年增加了2个，并在2006年和2011年续发。 我们寻求更新和扩大的培训计划在CCPR协调的 在UCLA训练。它建立在强大的社会学，经济学和公共卫生研究生课程; 杰出的多学科教师，具有多样化的研究组合，而不是跨越经济，社会和 健康人口学，反映了NICHD/PDB的使命; 加州大学洛杉矶分校我们寻求培养下一代人口科学家， 对与人口研究有关的当代相关主题进行方法复杂的研究。 我们已经建立了三个核心部门，社会学，经济学， 社区卫生科学（CHS），并将人口科学的跨学科培训纳入其 程序. 对于续约，我们保留了成功计划的现有功能，包括培训研讨会 包括受邀演讲者的演讲、实习生研讨会、导师制和跨学科课程。 自上次更新以来，我们增加了培训生研讨会，现任和前任培训生将与 邀请了教师嘉宾，并讨论了演讲者的研究和研究轨迹。我们还添加了 要求所有受训人员至少完成核定课程清单中的一门人口学课程。我们 此外，亦会加入要求所有学员完成最少一个高级方法课程。 该计划在培养独立调查人员方面取得了显著的成功， 反映NICHD使命的社会、经济和公共卫生主题的前沿研究。29日 自2005年以来完成博士学位的受训人员中，有11人现在是各专业的助理或副教授。 其中，9人担任研究密集型职位，4人是主要大学的博士后研究人员，4人是主要大学的博士后研究人员。 担任讲师（目前市场上有1名讲师）。因此，大多数学员都能获得终身教职 或其他研究密集型职位，通常在获得著名的博士后奖学金之前。

Project Summary/Abstract This application requests a five-year renewal of the predoctoral training program in demographic and population studies focused on child health and human development 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 Sociology, Economics, and Community Health Sciences, the three primary disciplines in which population scientists are trained in the U.S., as well as in related fields, e.g., geography, public policy. Recent hiring of population scientists has increased the number of CCPR affiliates and attracted increased numbers of students interested in demographic and population studies. Accordingly, funding is requested for 6 predoctoral traineeships per year, an increase of 2 over our training grant award in 2001 and the renewal in 2006 and 2011. The training program that we seek to renew and expand plays a central role in CCPR-coordinated training at UCLA. It builds on strong graduate programs in sociology, economics, and public health; a distinguished multi-disciplinary faculty with a diverse portfolio of research than spans economic, social, and health demography and reflects the NICHD/PDB mission; and abundant resources for population research at UCLA. We seek to train the next generation of population scientists to carry out theoretically informed, methodologically sophisticated research on topics of contemporary relevance that relate to population studies. 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 population science into their programs. For the renewal, we retain the existing features of the successful program, including a training seminar with presentations by invited speakers, trainee proseminar, mentorship, and cross-disciplinary coursework. Since the previous renewal, we added the trainee proseminar at which current and past trainees meet with invited faculty guests and discuss the speaker's research and research trajectory. We also added the requirement that all trainees complete at least one course in demography from an approved list of courses. We will also add the requirement that all trainees complete at least one advanced methods course. The program has a remarkable record of success at producing independent investigators who carry out cutting-edge research in social, economic, and public health topics that reflect the NICHD mission. Of the 29 trainees who have completed their PhD since 2005, 11 are now assistant or associate professors at major universities, 9 hold research intensive positions, 4 are postdoctoral researchers at major universities, and 4 hold appointments as lecturer (with 1 currently on the market). Thus, most trainees secure tenure-track faculty or other research intensive positions, often preceded by prestigious postdoctoral fellowships.