Administrative Core

项目摘要 拟议中的儿童肥胖预防中心将通过一个 以社区为基础的协调方法，针对可改变的个人风险行为、环境风险 这些因素以及州和国家的降低风险政策，其目标是首先阻止上升，然后减少 阿肯色州儿童肥胖率。认识到这将需要一个充分协调和多方面的 为了对目前的比率产生影响，我们通过儿童中心制定了一项战略， 肥胖预防汇集了多个研究者的集体专业知识， 国家的组织，来解决这个问题。这一行政和科学支助核心旨在 提供基本的业务基础，以支持该中心的研究工作。这些目标 建立和运营中心;实施辅导和职业发展计划，以支持“滚动” 有前途的初级研究人员的队列，并帮助他们在两个月内实现独立的研究者地位， COBRE的资金;并在五年内扩大和加强中心的基础设施， 建立和（或）加强三个核心;跟踪初级调查员进展情况;征聘 以及对随后接替的初级调查员的指导;多名调查员的人数和类型， 作为中心合作和指导活动的结果开发的跨学科应用程序;跟踪 中心调查员对核心设施和服务的数量和使用情况; 执行委员会和所有中心组成部分的外部咨询委员会。这一核心将进一步 支持通过发展后续的多学科赠款来维持中心的努力 应用.

PROJECT SUMMARY The proposed Center for Childhood Obesity Prevention will address childhood obesity prevention through a coordinated, community-based approach targeting modifiable individual risk behaviors, environmental risk factors, and state and national risk reduction policies with the goal of first halting the rise, then reducing the rate, of childhood obesity in Arkansas. Recognizing that it will take a fully coordinated and multi-faceted approach to have an impact on current rates, we have developed a strategy through the Center for Childhood Obesity Prevention that brings together the collective expertise of multiple investigators, and multiple organizations in the state, to address the problem. This Administrative and Scientific Support Core is designed to provide the basic operational underpinning to support the research efforts of the Center. The goals are to establish and operate the center; implement a mentoring and career development plan to support "rolling" cohorts of promising junior investigators, and help them to achieve independent investigator status within two years of COBRE funding; and to expand and strengthen the infrastructure of the Center over five years by establishing and/or enhancing three cores; tracking data regarding junior investigator progress; recruitment and guidance of subsequent replacement junior investigators; the number and type of multi-investigator, interdisciplinary applications developed as a result of Center collaborations and mentoring activities; tracking of volume and usage of core facilities and services by Center investigators; and evaluation by the internal Executive Committee and the External Advisory Committee of all Center components. This Core will further support efforts to sustain the Center through the development of subsequent multi-disciplinary grant applications.