CENTER FOR WOMENS HEALTH RESEARCH

该提案旨在通过完善和扩大核心活动，继续研究妇女一生的健康状况。总体目标是通过两个研究核心继续和扩大我们的研究使命，即生物行为核心，以扩大我们对妇女神经内分泌、生物行为和免疫功能的理解，以及社会文化环境核心，以促进、协调和巩固在不同社会文化环境中妇女健康的知识。 我们建议开发额外的生物措施，特别是作为介质连接神经内分泌和免疫系统的因素。 社会文化环境核心项目将扩大，重点关注对不同社会文化环境敏感和适合调查的新方法/措施，更加注重社会文化变量对健康和影响健康的公共政策的交叉影响，更加注重将社会文化环境知识纳入预防、干预和成果研究。 研究、发展和传播的核心将强调培训妇女保健方面的科学家，利用各种媒体向专业和非专业人员传播研究结果，并扩大到包括强调成果研究。 妇女健康中心的具体目标是：（1）通过任命妇女健康中心调查员/附属机构和一个科学咨询委员会，促进与妇女一生健康有关的基础和临床跨学科研究，并为试点/可行性研究提供小额赠款，以促进跨学科研究;（2）通过生物行为核心实验室，加强妇女健康综合知识库的发展; 3）加强对社会文化环境与妇女健康之间关系的理解，并通过社会文化环境核心，加强调查人员以文化上适当的方式研究不同妇女群体的能力; 4）向各种受众传播与妇女健康有关的科学信息，包括研究人员、临床医生、妇女研究学者、决策者、媒体，5）通过研究发展和传播核心，促进教师、工作人员、博士前/博士后学员和访问学者在妇女健康方面的研究技能和奖学金机会的发展。

This proposal seeks to continue research on women's health across the lifespan through refinement and expansion of core activities. The overall objectives are to continue and to expand our research mission through the 2 research cores, the Biobehavioral Core to extend our understanding of neuroendocrine, biobehavioral, and immune function in women and the Sociocultural Environments Core to advance, coordinate, and consolidate knowledge of women's health in the context of diverse sociocultural environments. We propose to develop additional biological measures, especially factors which serve as mediators connecting the neuroendocrine and immune system. The Sociocultural Environments Core will expand to focus on new methods/measures sensitive to and appropriate for investigation of diverse sociocultural environments, increase its focus on the intersection of sociocultural variables on health and public policies influencing health, and increase its focus on integrating knowledge of sociocultural environments into prevention, intervention, and outcomes research. The Research Development and Dissemination core will emphasize training of scientists in women's health, disseminate findings to professional and lay audiences using a variety of media, and expand to include an emphasis on outcomes research. Specific goals for the CWHR are: 1) facilitate basic and clinical interdisciplinary research related to women's health across the lifespan by appointment of CWHR Investigators/Affiliates and a Scientific Advisory Committee and award of small grants for pilot/feasibility studies to promote interdisciplinary research; 2) enhance development of an integrated knowledge base for women's health through the Biobehavioral Core laboratories; 3) enhance understanding of the relationship between sociocultural environments and women's health and enhance investigators' capacity to study diverse populations of women in culturally competent ways through the Sociocultural Environments Core; 4) disseminate scientific information related to women's health to various audiences, including researchers, clinicians, women studies scholars, policymakers, the media, and the general public, particularly women, through the Research Development and Dissemination Core; and 5) promote development of research skills and opportunities for scholarship about women's health among faculty, staff, pre/postdoctoral trainees, and visiting scholars via the Research Development and Dissemination Core.