GSH Training Grant

此申请要求继续资助一个独特的和非常成功的博士前研究 一个培训计划，现在在其第15年，位于社会医学科学系（SMS）在哥伦比亚 梅尔曼公共卫生学院（Mailman School of Public Health）SMS提供全国唯一的博士学位。在公共和公共部门的培训 健康和多个社会科学学科，准备学生进行严格的，高影响力的研究， 性别和性行为的历史、社会、文化和心理层面，因为它们影响生殖健康和生殖健康， 以及性健康和性别和性少数群体的健康，在国家和全球范围内。在全国范围内， 性健康和生殖健康指标继续落后于其他发达国家， 在艾滋病毒和孕产妇死亡率方面，种族差异很大。性别和性少数群体的经历 特别是严重的身体和精神疾病的发病率很高。在全球范围内， 艾滋病毒、性传播感染以及孕产妇和婴儿死亡率是紧迫的问题。这 申请资助5名受训人员。我们保证提供长达5年的资金，但大多数学员 为他们的论文工作争取其他外部资金。该计划在以下方面取得了很大的成功： 培训生多样性，生产力和研究生成就方面：所有12名培训生被任命为这个 获得博士学位的人继续从事生物医学研究。 受训人员遵循理论和方法上严格的课程，包括（1）学科 人类学、社会学、心理学或历史学方面的培训，与博士学位相当。候选人 哥伦比亚艺术与科学研究生院;（2）两个学期的课程，在社会的主要传统， 社会医学科学当代研究和实践的基础理论;（3）流行病学和 生物统计学;（4）至少增加两门关于当代理论方法和实质性问题的课程; 性别、性和健康专题;（5）正在进行的性别、性和健康教员实习研讨会; (6)研究道德和负责任的研究行为的必修课程;（7）研究学徒， （8）关于性别，性和健康主题的博士研究。这个项目非常- 成功的培训教师来自社会学，人类学，历史学，流行病学， 人口和家庭健康、经济学、生物行为科学、儿科学、妇产科、 护理、急诊医学、神经病学、精神病学和社会工作。该应用程序的创新包括 新的NICHD资助的培训教师，加强该计划已经与NICHD范围内的强有力的一致性 研究优先事项，包括妇幼保健，以及人口动态部门具体 优先事项（避孕药具的使用和不使用、艾滋病毒/艾滋病）。

This application requests continued funding for a unique and highly successful predoctoral research training program, now in its 15th year, located in the Department of Sociomedical Sciences (SMS) at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health. SMS offers the nation’s only Ph.D. level training in both public health and multiple social science disciplines, preparing students to conduct rigorous, high-impact research on historical, social, cultural, and psychological dimensions of gender and sexuality as they impact reproductive and sexual health and the health of gender and sexual minorities, both nationally and globally. Nationally, sexual and reproductive health indicators continue to lag behind those of other developed countries, with substantial racial disparities both in HIV and in maternal mortality. Gender and sexual minorities experience especially high rates of serious physical and mental illness. Globally, the burden of disease and death associated with HIV, sexually transmitted infections, and maternal and infant mortality represent urgent problems. This application requests funding for 5 trainees. We guarantee funding for up to 5 years, but the majority of trainees secure other external funding for their dissertation work. The program has a strong track record of success in terms of trainee diversity, productivity, and post-graduate accomplishments: all 12 trainees appointed to this program who have earned PhDs continued on to careers in biomedical research. Trainees follow a theoretically and methodologically rigorous curriculum consisting of (1) disciplinary training in anthropology, sociology, psychology, or history comparable to that received by Ph.D. candidates in Columbia’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences; (2) a two-semester course in the major traditions in social theory that undergird contemporary research and practice in the sociomedical sciences; (3) epidemiology and biostatistics; (4) a minimum of two additional courses on contemporary theoretical approaches and substantive topics in gender, sexuality, and health; (5) an ongoing faculty-trainee seminar in gender, sexuality, and health; (6) a required course in research ethics and responsible conduct of research; (7) a research apprenticeship with program faculty; (8) doctoral research on a topic in gender, sexuality, and health. This program’s highly- accomplished training faculty are drawn from the fields of Sociology, Anthropology, History, Epidemiology, Population and Family Health, Economics, Bio-behavioral Sciences, Pediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Nursing, Emergency Medicine, Neurology, Psychiatry, and Social Work. Innovations in this application include new NICHD-funded training faculty, enhancing the program’s already strong alignment with NICHD-wide research priorities including maternal and child health, as well as Population-Dynamics- Branch-specific priorities (contraceptive use and non-use, HIV/AIDS).