Career Enhancement Core

摘要：职业提升核心 从事烟草监管科学(TRS)职业生涯的调查人员将通过应用 完善的科学范式(例如，流行病学、统计学、行为药理学、社区 参与性研究)，以一种新的方式解决对食品和药物管理局(FDA)至关重要的问题。 USC-TCORS职业提升核心(CEC)将提供结构化的职业发展经验，以- 将监管问题的知识和特定科学领域的技能结合起来。在过去的时间里 四年来，南加州大学TCORS在TRS制定了一项强有力的培训方案，其中包括成功培训3名 博士后，3名博士后和2名教员实习生，他们在生成TRS研究档案和 完成课程后，获得相关的学术和专业职位。2018-2023年的资金 在此期间，CEC将继续这一趋势，大力将USC-TCORS初级调查人员整合到团队中 中心的四个研究项目之一。我们还将加强我们现有的试点研究计划，以增强- 确保初级调查人员追求独立的研究问题，与我们中心的综合 主题。我们将增加对博士后研究人员网络的支持，并获得更多接触 更广泛的TRS社区，包括在FDA烟草中心进行为期一周的研究沉浸体验 产品(CTP)，或在其他TCORS。上述每一项职业提升机制都将使南加州大学- TCORS初级调查人员在我们的综合主题科学的概念和方法方面培养技能 框架--产品与人群的交集。在这样做的过程中，我们希望每个初级调查员- 利用包括社交媒体在内的一种方法研究烟草产品的多样性 和大数据分析(应用于项目1[P1])、基于社区的参与性研究 烟草产品的购买(P2)、纵向行为流行病学(P3)或人体实验室研究 用户体验(P4)。我们还希望每个初级调查员都能对概念有所了解，重新-- 搜索方法，以及研究至少一种关键的人口多样性形式的后勤(例如，年龄、种族/民族、 社会经济地位、吸烟状况)。CEC的具体目标是：目标1.招聘高级预科医生 博士后、博士后和新的或早期的教职调查人员。目标2.沉浸和指导TCORS Jun- 南加州大学TCORS四个核心研究项目团队中的IOR调查人员，以加强对甲基溴的培训- OGES和TRS研究人员使用的学科。目标3为TCORS初级人员提供试点研究资金 调查人员开发独立的研究项目。目标4促进TRS的核心能力和专业知识- 本能技能培养。目标5评估和改进中心的职业发展计划。最终目标将是 USC-TCORS初级调查人员将在TRS发展职业生涯，从而产生有影响力的工作， 指导FDA的法规，使整个人口的健康受益。

Abstract: Career Enhancement Core Investigators embarking in careers in tobacco regulatory science (TRS) will be most successful by applying a well-established scientific paradigm (e.g., epidemiology, statistics, behavioral pharmacology, community based participatory research) in a novel way to address issues of importance to Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The USC-TCORS Career Enhancement Core (CEC) will provide career building experiences structured to in- crease the combination of knowledge of regulatory issues and skills in a specific scientific area. Over the past four years, USC-TCORS developed a robust training program in TRS, which involved successful training of 3 pre-doctoral, 3 post-doctoral and 2 faculty trainees, who excelled in generating TRS research portfolios and secured related academic and professional positions upon finishing the program. Over the 2018-2023 funding period, the CEC will continue this trend by robustly integrating USC-TCORS junior investigators into the teams of one of Center's the four research projects. We will also enhance our existing pilot research program to en- sure that junior investigators pursue independent research questions aligned with our Center's integrative theme. We will increase support for our postdoctoral investigators to network and gain greater exposure to the broader TRS community, including a weeklong research immersion experience at the FDA, Center for Tobacco Products (CTP), or at other TCORSs. Each of the above career enhancement mechanisms will empower USC- TCORS junior investigators develop skills in the concepts and methods of our integrative theme's scientific framework—the Intersection of Products with Populations. In doing so, we expect each junior investigator de- velop skills in one of the methods utilized to study diversity amongst tobacco products, including social media and big data analytics (applied in Project 1 [P1]), community based participatory research at the location of purchase (P2), longitudinal behavioral epidemiology (P3), or human laboratory research of the tobacco product user experience (P4). We also expect each junior investigator to develop a knowledge of the concepts, re- search methods, and logistics of studying at least one key form of population diversity (e.g., age, race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, smoking status). Specific Aims of the CEC are to: Aim 1. Recruit advanced pre- doctoral, post-doctoral and new or early stage faculty investigators. Aim 2. Immerse and mentor TCORS jun- ior investigators within the USC-TCORS' four core research project teams to enhance training in the methodol- ogies and disciplines employed by TRS researchers. Aim 3 Provide pilot research funding to TCORS junior investigators to develop independent research projects. Aim 4 Promote core TRS competencies and profes- sional skill building. Aim 5 Evaluate and refine the Center's career enhancement program. The end goal will be that USC-TCORS junior investigators will develop careers in TRS whereby they produce impactful work that guides FDA regulation that benefits the health of the population as a whole.