Research Training Program in Substance Abuse Prevention

描述（由申请人提供）：本申请为耶鲁大学药物滥用预防研究T32博士后培训计划提供支持。该项目的主办单位是耶鲁大学医学院精神病学系预防和社区研究部门和咨询中心，其他合作单位包括精神病学系药物滥用部门、流行病学和公共卫生部门以及心理学系。耶鲁大学其他四个系和中心的教员也参加了这个培训项目。这个应用程序建立在一个非常成功的招募，培训和药物滥用预防研究博士后的职业发展计划，最初由NIDA于2005年资助。由于对严格的跨学科、以社区为基础的药物滥用预防研究的持续需求，要求重新提供资金，以维持培训计划目前的重点，即培养未来的预防科学家，使其成为独立调查人员。该计划与NIDA在其最近的战略计划中确定的研究目标和相关的交叉优先事项完全一致。目前的项目培养博士后：1)在生态框架内理解物质使用/滥用和相关行为，强调相关的发展，神经生物学，环境和文化背景，如家庭，学校，工作场所，社区和社区；2)认识到预防科学涉及一个知识发展和应用的过程，该过程要经过特定阶段（干预前、干预和扩散或规模化）；3)应用严格的研究方法，利用先进的数据分析策略，并在适当时使用严格的混合方法设计；4)重视跨学科、跨领域研究；5)将研究转化为影响预防实践和政策的现实环境。通过两年的教学研讨会和个人定制的培训经验，包括与两位科学顾问的密切工作关系，这些课程重点得到了加强。四年来，本项目已培养或正在培养博士后13人；6名学员已完成项目，目前均从事科研工作。5个在学术机构，1个在跨学科研究机构。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This renewal application requests support for the T32 Postdoctoral Training Program in Substance Abuse Prevention Research at Yale University. The host site for the program is the Division of Prevention and Community Research and The Consultation Center, Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, which is joined by partner sites: the Division of Substance Abuse in the Department of Psychiatry, the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, and the Department of Psychology. Yale faculty from four other departments and centers are also affiliated with the training program. This application builds on a highly successful recruitment, training, and career development program in substance abuse prevention research for postdoctoral fellows initially funded by NIDA in 2005. With continuing demand for rigorous interdisciplinary, community-based substance abuse prevention research, renewal funding is requested to sustain the training program's current focus on developing future prevention scientists for careers as independent investigators. The program is fully consistent with NIDA research objectives identified in its most recent strategic plan and with related cross-cutting priorities. The current program trains postdoctoral fellows: 1) to understand substance use/abuse and related behaviors within an ecological framework that emphasizes relevant developmental, neurobiological, environmental, and cultural contexts, such as families, schools, worksites, neighborhoods, and communities; 2) to recognize that prevention science involves a process of knowledge development and application that progresses through specific phases (pre- intervention, intervention, and diffusion or going-to-scale); 3) to apply rigorous research methodologies that utilize advanced data analytic strategies and, when appropriate, use of rigorous mixed methods designs; 4) to emphasize interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research; and 5) to translate research into real-world contexts that impact prevention practice and policy. These program emphases are reinforced through didactic seminars and individually-tailored training experiences across two years that include a close working relationship with two scientific advisors. Over the past four years, the program has trained or is currently in the process of training 13 postdoctoral fellows; six trainees have completed the program, and all six are currently engaged in a research career. Five in academic settings and one in an interdisciplinary research organization. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: This program offers postdoctoral training in prevention research critical to public health: the prevention of adolescent substance use/abuse; intimate partner violence and substance abuse; substance abuse among populations with HIV; stress as a biological risk factor for addictive behaviors; prevention of substance abuse through workplace interventions; and parental substance abuse as a risk factor for child outcomes. Faculty from diverse settings and disciplines provide a unique environment for training future prevention scientists.