Program Development

核心B：计划开发 杜克老年人口统计中心将促进高度协同和跨学科 促进重大研究突破的环境，特别是在生物和生物医学领域 老龄化人口学(又称老龄化生物人口学)及其发展和应用 创新的数学和统计人口统计工具和方法，以获取数据。作为其计划的一部分 发展核心，该中心将帮助杜克大学设立两个新的教职员工职位，其中一个是助理 一名教授专注于生物人口学，另一名助理教授具有以下专业知识 数学和统计人口学。这些职位将是终身制职位，每个职位的资助期限为5年。 该核心还支持该中心的试点项目计划。试点项目研究的三个例子是 包括在杜克大学的应用程序中，其中一个项目侧重于早期生活决定因素，晚年生活健康 中国和另外两个项目在印度尼西亚和印度尼西亚研究衰老和决策的生物标志物 墨西哥。对杜克中心的研究计划至关重要的其他主题，以及对哪些项目进行试点研究 可能资助的项目包括：男女在健康和生存方面的差异、衰老的遗传学、新的 死亡率和发病率预测的途径，估计年龄的数学和统计方法 当年龄未知时，对死亡率的节奏和其他扭曲的数学和统计分析 以及当健康状况发生变化时的发病率。 在核心B开展的工作将培养新的年轻教员，并将推动关键领域的研究 老龄化生物人口学以及老龄数学和统计人口学的重要领域

Core B: Program Development The Duke Center on the Demography of Aging will promote a highly synergistic and interdisciplinary environment to foster important research breakthroughs particulariy in the areas of biological and biomedical demography of aging (aka the biodemography of aging) and in the development and application of innovative mathematical and statistical demographic tools and methods to data. As part of its Program Development Core, the Center will help establish two new faculty positions at Duke, one an assistant professor having a focus on biodemography and the other an assistant professor with expertise in mathematical and statistical demography. These will be tenure-track positions each funded for five years. This Core also supports the Center's Pilot Project program. Three examples of pilot project research are included in the Duke application, with one project focusing on eariy life determinants of later life health in China, and the other two projects researching biomarkers of aging and decision-making in Indonesia and Mexico. Other topics that are central to the Duke Center's research program and for which pilot research projects may be funded include: male-female differences in health and survival, the genetics of aging, new approaches to mortality and morbidity forecasting, mathematical and statistical methods for estimating age when age is not known, and mathematical and statistical analyses of tempo and other distortions of mortality and morbidity rates when health conditions are changing. The work performed in Core B will foster new young faculty and will advance research in the critically important areas of the biodemography of aging and in the mathematical and statistical demography of aging