Interdisciplinary Population Health Science Training: Linking Multilevel Forces Across Time

项目摘要/摘要 现代重大健康问题很少能完全通过临床干预或医学手段来解决 预付款。社会、经济和政策背景也深刻地塑造了人类的健康和发展， 需要一种综合的方法来研究多个层面对人口健康的影响 时间尺度：一种“细胞到社会”的方法。美国国家科学院最近的一份报告得出结论， 在人口健康科学中实现变革性研究将需要一种新颖的、真正的跨学科 培养下一代科学家的方法。不幸的是，现在有几个障碍阻碍了这种培训。 大学学科结构竖井研究人员。培训计划通常优先于病因学研究，而不是 对有效解决方案的调查。大多数新科学家只接受过生物、社会或卫生保健方面的培训 系统对疾病的影响；很少有人接受过整合这三种因素的培训。目标：我们提出了一项计划， 明尼苏达大学人口健康科学的博士和博士后培训，将产生 了解复杂的健康问题和健康差距的科学家 相互影响的层层影响，并在时间、生物和历史时间上展开。设计： 拟议的计划以生物学和疾病病因学与社会科学和 包括人口健康科学、人口模型和负责任的行为方面的必修课程 研究；由教员组成的跨学科团队监督的独立和合作的研究；以及 密集的职业社会化，旨在整合来自不同学科背景和 让他们做好准备，成为一名出色的人口健康科学家。预约：我们要求五个事前 博士(三年)和两个博士后(两年)培训时段。结果：我们的目标是培育下一个 新一代健康科学家致力于整合来自多个学科的知识、理论和工具 进行尖端研究，为国家最紧迫的公共卫生问题提供新的解决方案 问题。领导力：该项目由人口健康学者约翰·罗伯特·沃伦博士(社会学)共同领导 和Theresa Osypuk博士(流行病学和社区卫生)。与一个执行委员会一起 国家认可的人口健康科学家和一支由来自4个国家的44名教师导师组成的优秀团队 学院和七个纪律部门，他们将监督一个培训计划，将来自 生物、健康和社会科学，以综合性、开创性的人口健康研究为特色 和有目的的专业化。培训计划将由明尼苏达州人口中心负责， 一个充满活力的跨学科知识空间，优先考虑人口健康研究，并以多样化的 拥有资金雄厚的研究项目和令人印象深刻的培训人口健康学者的记录的教职员工。

Project Summary/Abstract Major modern health problems can rarely be solved exclusively through clinical interventions or medical advances. Social, economic, and policy contexts also shape human health and development in profound ways, requiring an integrative approach to studying the multiple layers of influence on population health over multiple time scales: a “cells-to-society” approach. A recent National Academy of Sciences report concluded that achieving transformational research in population health science will require a novel, truly interdisciplinary approach to training the next generation of scientists. Unfortunately, several barriers now impede such training. University disciplinary structures silo researchers. Training programs typically prioritize research on etiology over investigations of effective solutions. Most new scientists are trained only in the biological, social, or health care system influences on disease; few are trained to integrate all three. Objectives: We propose a program of pre- doctoral and post-doctoral training in population health science at the University of Minnesota that will produce scientists who understand complex health problems and health disparities as resulting from multiple and interacting layers of influence and that unfold over chronological, biological, and historical time. Design: The proposed program features cross-training in the biology and etiology of disease and the social sciences and includes required coursework on population health science, population modeling, and the responsible conduct of research; independent and collaborative research supervised by interdisciplinary teams of faculty; and intensive professional socialization designed to integrate trainees from diverse disciplinary backgrounds and prepare them to have outstanding careers as population health scientists. Appointments: We request five pre- doctoral (three-year) and two post-doctoral (two-year) training slots. Outcomes: Our goal is to cultivate the next generation of health scientists for careers spent integrating knowledge, theory, and tools from multiple disciplines to conduct cutting edge research and to produce novel solutions to the nation’s most pressing public health issues. Leadership: The program is co-led by population health scholars Dr. John Robert Warren (Sociology) and Dr. Theresa Osypuk (Epidemiology & Community Health). Together with an Executive Committee of nationally-recognized population health scientists and an outstanding team of 44 faculty mentors from four colleges and seven disciplinary departments, they will oversee a training program that blends coursework from the biological, health, and social sciences and features integrative, ground breaking population health research and purposeful professionalization. The training program will be stewarded by the Minnesota Population Center, a vibrant trans-disciplinary intellectual space prioritizing population health research and featuring a diverse faculty with well-funded research projects and an impressive track record of training population health scholars.