Improving the Health of Aging Women and Men.

项目总结/摘要 这是一个新的机构T32国家研究服务奖在大学的申请 加州圣地亚哥（UCSD）旨在培养博士前和博士后公共卫生科学家，致力于 改善老年妇女和男子的健康，了解性别差异。该计划侧重于 准备研究人员进行翻译研究的因素影响老化的整个生命过程中， 中年到生命的尽头重点放在老年妇女的特殊关注，由于独特的 他们在生命历程中面临的挑战。该节目将由Andrea Z执导。LaCroix，博士，教授 和流行病学主任，他是国际知名的资深“老龄化流行病学家”， 有指导之前NIA资助的T32计划的经验。她的领导伙伴是联合主任琳达麦克埃什， 博士，一位研究认知老化和大脑成像风险因素的神经科学家， 摩尔，医学博士，老年医学主任谁拥有20年的国家卫生研究院的资金，并指导了50多名学员。的 该计划围绕6个主要研究领域组织：1）性别和性别差异的研究; 2）早期生活 晚年生活结果的预测因素（超越所有重点领域的领域）; 3）更年期和中年; 4）健康 身心老化; 5）慢性病、多种发病率和存活率; 6）健康差距， 弱势群体。博士前培训生将从两个高度选择性的博士课程在 家庭医学和公共卫生系（FMPH）：1）UCSD/圣地亚哥州立大学联合 公共卫生博士课程（JDP），包括流行病学，全球健康和健康行为;以及 2)生物统计学博士项目博士后学者将从全国范围内的博士项目中招募 在公共卫生、预防医学、神经科学、心理学、营养学、物理治疗、运动科学 人口学、药学和其他学科。T32计划的近期目标是确保 每个受训者：1）建立一个研究计划和重要的机构发表的研究，在老龄妇女的 或男性的健康和/或性别差异是新颖的，重要的和变革性的，作为未来的基础， 补助金申请; 2）发展他们的口头陈述技能; 3）获得详细的知识和策略， 成功设定并达到职业发展里程碑; 4）制定并提交赠款申请 适合他们的培训水平; 5）完成培训并将知识应用于负责任的行为， 研究; 6）成为UCSD老龄化研究社区的重要和有贡献的成员， 全国范围内。项目主管将每周举办一次T32研讨会，其中包括以下方面的结构化培训： 指导;从一个新颖而重要的研究问题的概念进行老龄化研究， 将评估健康差距的严格方法纳入出版和传播;撰写赠款; 和职业发展。我们的长期目标是培养下一代跨学科科学家， 美国将提供证据，对老年妇女和男子的健康产生重大影响。

Project Summary/Abstract This is an application for a new Institutional T32 National Research Service Award at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) designed to train predoctoral and postdoctoral public health scientists devoted to improving the health of aging women and men and understanding sex differences. The program focuses on preparing researchers to conduct translational studies of factors affecting aging through the life course from middle-age to end of life. Emphasis is placed on special concerns of aging women due to the unique challenges they face across the life course. The program will be directed by Andrea Z. LaCroix, PhD, Professor and Chief of Epidemiology, who is an internationally known senior “aging epidemiologist” with 10 years of experience directing a prior NIA-funded T32 program. Her leadership partners are Co-Directors Linda McEvoy, PhD, an established neuroscientist who studies risk factors for cognitive aging and brain imaging and Alison Moore, MD, Chief of Geriatrics who has 20 years of NIH funding and has mentored more than 50 trainees. The program is organized around 6 major research areas: 1) the study of sex and gender differences; 2) early life predictors of later life outcomes (an area that transcends all focus areas); 3) menopause and midlife; 4) healthy aging in mind and body; 5) chronic disease, multiple morbidity and survivorship; and 6) health disparities and vulnerable populations. Predoctoral trainees will be recruited from two highly selective PhD programs in the Department of Family Medicine and Public Health (FMPH): 1) The UCSD/San Diego State University Joint Doctoral Program (JDP) in Public Health with tracks in Epidemiology, Global Health and Health Behavior; and 2) the PhD Program in Biostatistics. Postdoctoral scholars will be recruited from doctoral programs nationwide in public health, preventive medicine, neurosciences, psychology, nutrition, physical therapy, exercise science, demography, pharmacy, and other disciplines. The immediate goals of the T32 program are to ensure that each trainee: 1) establishes a research program and significant body of published research in aging women’s or men’s health and/or sex differences that is novel, significant and transformational as a foundation for future grant applications; 2) develops their oral presentation skills; 3) acquires detailed knowledge and strategies for success in setting and meeting career development milestones; 4) develops and submits a grant application appropriate to their level of training; 5) completes training and applies knowledge in the responsible conduct of research; and 6) becomes a valued and contributing member of the aging research community at UCSD and nationally. The Program Directors will host a weekly T32 Workshop that includes structured training in: mentorship; conducting aging research from conception of a novel and significant research question, to incorporating rigorous methods for evaluating health disparities, to publishing and dissemination; grant writing; and career development. Our long term goal is to build the next generation of interdisciplinary scientists across the US who will produce evidence that will have major impacts on the health of aging women and men.