Carolina Program in Health and Aging Research

描述(由申请人提供)：北卡罗来纳大学老龄研究所(IDA)建议重新提交机构Ruth L.Kirschstein国家研究服务奖(NRSA)的竞争性续签申请，请求以新标题卡罗莱纳健康与老龄研究计划(CPHAR)第二个五年的资金。该计划将为来自健康和老龄化研究领域几个学科的合格博士后和博士后研究员提供高级跨学科研究培训和指导研究经验。CPHAR在健康、保健和老龄化研究方面的培训努力是基于北卡罗来纳大学教职员工在这些领域的领导地位，以及老龄化社会对此类研究的明显需求。该计划通过平衡涵盖公共卫生、社会科学和临床角度的理论、分析和实质性内容来加强传统的学科培训。我们对健康和老龄化的主要兴趣需要一个临床和医疗保健基础。通过公共卫生和社会科学，我们关注性别、种族和阶层的健康差距以及农村老龄化问题。因为我们从生态背景和生命历程的角度来看待个人，受训者学习社会科学理论和方法以及进行适当分析的公共政策技能。这些综合的理论、方法和应用观点强调了跨学科的重要性。CPHAR执行委员会、其指导委员会及其教员辅导库的不同部门和学科背景加强了这一原则。跨学科的指导团队、必要的系列研讨会和其他有组织的活动确保了这一理念的实施。CPHAR还强调在其方案的正式结构、其领导力、导师和招聘工作中针对多样性和健康差距研究的培训。自成立以来，CPHAR实现了所有培训目标，同时大大提高了培训能力，成为一个成熟的项目。它所有的实习生毕业生都进入了学术或研究密集型职业生涯，都是在老龄化和健康领域。CPHAR已经为研究培训建立了一个独特的重点，这是这个校园和该地区独有的。我们有一支由41名教职员工组成的庞大干部队伍来支持这项计划，我们拥有雄厚的老龄研究所及其老龄化和多样性中心的机构基础，并通过我们与其他校园培训计划和研究中心的合作。在之前的项目中，我们成功地连续填补了两个博士后和两个博士后职位。由于我们的申请者非常庞大且合格，我们要求增加两个博士前研究员职位。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Institute on Aging (IDA) of the University of North Carolina proposes the resubmission of a competing continuation application for an Institutional Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA), requesting a second five years of funding under the new title, Carolina Program for Health and Aging Research (CPHAR). The program will offer advanced interdisciplinary research training and directed research experience to qualified predoctoral and postdoctoral fellows from several disciplines in the area of health and aging research. The CPHAR training effort in health, health care and aging research is predicated on the widely acknowledged leadership of UNC faculty in these areas, and on manifest needs for such research in an aging society. The program augments traditional disciplinary training through a balance of theoretical, analytical, and substantive content covering public health, social science, and clinical perspectives. Our main interest in health and aging requires a clinical and health care grounding. Through public health and the social sciences, we focus on health disparities by gender, race, and class and on rural aging. Because we view individuals in an ecological context and in a life course perspective, trainees learn social science theories and methods and public policy skills for proper analysis. These integrated theoretical, methodological and applied perspectives underscore the importance of interdisciplinarity. The varied departmental and disciplinary backgrounds of the CPHAR Executive Committee, its Steering Committee and its faculty mentor pool reinforce this principle. Interdisciplinary mentorship teams, a required seminar series, and other structured activities ensure that this philosophy is implemented. CPHAR also emphasizes training for diversity and health disparities research in the formal structure of its program, in its leadership, mentors and recruitment efforts. Since inception, CPHAR has met all training goals, while greatly increasing its capacity for training and becoming a mature program. All of its trainee graduates have entered academic or research-intensive careers, all in the aging and health field. CPHAR has established a distinctive focus for research training that is unique to this campus and in the region. We have a large cadre of 41 faculty to support the program, a strong institutional base at the Institute on Aging and its Center for Aging and Diversity, and through our collaboration with other campus training programs and research centers. During the previous program, we were successful in continuously filling our two predoctoral and two postdoctoral positions. Because of our very large and qualified applicant pool, we request two additional predoctoral fellow positions.