Research Infrastructure for Demographic and Behavioral Population Science Developmental Core

发展基础设施核心的职能是鼓励和支持人口研究， 注重创新、跨学科研究，发展新阶段和早期阶段 调查人员。我们通过试点项目赠款、早期职业生涯提供了这种鼓励和支持 奖励(工资支持，以保护有前途的初级教师的时间)，撰写补助金的住院医生，以及 工作组。我们在我们的三个标志性主题中向研究人员提供了援助：贫困和 不平等、性健康和生殖健康、家庭人口统计和成年过渡，以及 支持相关领域的个人研究，如老龄化、长寿和难民的人口统计学研究 健康。与我们对新兴研究方法的前瞻性立场一致，我们最近 开始支持可以帮助开发我们在应用程序前面讨论的新主题的项目： 遗传和表观遗传过程和社会环境；以及基于代理人的计算人口学 (请参阅计划概述的D部分)。我们认为发展基础设施核心的作用不是 只是被动地接受建议并决定资助哪一个，而是也积极地鼓励和 发展有前途的研究领域。

The function of the developmental infrastructure core is to encourage and support population research, with an emphasis on innovative, interdisciplinary research and the development of new and early stage investigators. We have provided this encouragement and support through pilot project grants, early career awards (salary support that protects the time of promising junior faculty), a grant-writing residency, and working groups. We have provided assistance to researchers in all three of our signature themes: poverty and inequality, sexual and reproductive health, and family demography and the transition to adulthood, as well as supporting individual research in related areas, such as the demography of aging, longevity, and refugee health. Consistent with our forward-looking stance toward emerging research approaches, we have recently begun to support projects that can help develop the new themes we discussed earlier in the application: genetic and epigenetic processes and the social environment; and agent-based computational demography (See Section D of the Program Overview). We think the role of the developmental infrastructure core is not merely to passively receive proposals and decide which to fund but rather to also proactively encourage and develop promising research areas.