Administrative Core

杜克大学人口研究中心(DPRC)是一个跨学科的研究机构， 来自社会科学(人口学、经济学、心理学、社会学)和 杜克大学的生物、数学和统计科学。该中心寻求催化尖端研究 这涉及到人口福祉的基本问题，并扩大了人口统计的范围 调查和培养下一代研究人员的能力。DPRC的影响将是 最大的三个新兴领域：(A)深入了解儿童的发育过程 人口健康，(B)了解社会关系和网络地位在人口中的作用 (C)确定因果影响，以促进对人口一级行为的理解。我们 鼓励和促进在数据收集和数据分析方面的创新，以解决这些问题。DPRC 目前有来自10个系、校和研究所的53名教职员工。此应用程序请求 来自NICHD人口动态中心研究基础设施(P2C)的资金支持三个核心， 行政、发展和科学核心。拟议的核心将降低 寻求和管理外部资金，使研究人员能够专注于科学。我们的目标是增加 通过发展科学提供外部资金，考虑到数量和质量，没有DPRC是不可能的 杜克大学人口研究人员的最新记录，招聘顶尖人口科学家的记录，以及独特的数据 资源(例如，在重大国际小组调查中的领导地位)。在过去的10年里，DPRC 成为人口研究界的主要贡献者。

The Duke University Population Research Center (DPRC) is an interdisciplinary research organization bringing together scientists from the social sciences (demography, economics, psychology, sociology) and the biological, mathematical, and statistical sciences at Duke. The center seeks to catalyze cutting-edge research that speaks to fundamental questions of population well-being and expands the boundaries of demographic investigation and to foster the development of the next generation of researchers. DPRC's impact will be greatest in three emerging areas: (a) Getting under the skin to understand the developmental processes of population health, (b) Understanding of the roles of social connections and network positions in population health, and (c) Identifying causal effects to advance understanding of behavior at the population level. We encourage and promote innovation in data collection and data analyses in pursuit of these questions. DPRC currently has 53 faculty associates from 10 departments, schools and institutes. This application requests funding from the NICHD Population Dynamics Centers Research Infrastructure (P2C) to support three cores, administration, development and science cores. The proposed cores will lower the administrative costs of seeking and managing external funding freeing researchers to concentrate on science. Our goal is to increase external funding by developing science that would not be possible without DPRC, given the number and quality of population researchers at Duke, its recent record of recruiting top population scientists, and its unique data resources (e.g., the leadership on major international panel surveys). Over the past 10 years, DPRC has become a major contributor to the population research community.