The Population Research Institute

项目摘要：人口研究所 宾夕法尼亚州立大学(PRI)人口研究所是一个充满活力的跨学科 该中心提供战略资源，支持创新的、高影响力的人口动态研究。PRI‘s 总体目标是促进对人类种群动态和过程的科学理解， 专注于PRI的主要研究领域。首先，通过对社区、邻里和空间的研究 过程，PRI正在为我们理解人口在社区中的分布做出贡献 和社区，带来这些空间模式的社会过程，以及它们对 个人、家庭和儿童的健康和福祉。其次，PRI奖学金增加了对 移民和移民融合对全国健康和健康差距的原因和后果 生命历程和世代。第三，PRI的研究人员研究了家庭和社交网络是如何进行批判性调解的 更广泛的社会变革和社会制度，并有助于观察到有利和不利之间的差距 被边缘化的群体。研究评估了阻碍家庭健康的结构性和社会障碍 支持儿童的健康和福祉。第四，PRI支持人口健康研究，重点是 孕产妇、儿童和青少年发病率的社会决定因素以及 生物因素和外部环境对后天发育和健康的影响。PRI在以下方面具有历史优势 这些领域并受益于宾夕法尼亚州立大学的制度环境 通过慷慨的资金和基础设施鼓励跨学科人口研究的卓越 支持。通过创新和投资，PRI计划在其 未来五年的主要研究领域。PRI将通过其额外的具体目标来实现这一目标。第一, PRI的目标是在人口科学领域培养新的领导者，特别是年轻一代的新兴领导者 学者。凭借作为人口研究孵化器的成功记录，PRI的发展核心将 为初级学者提供更多指导和支持，并提供旨在建立 提高同行审查的外部资金的竞争力和人口科学的影响。第二，优先考虑 旨在促进新的途径和方法，这些方法将对 通过其计算和空间分析核心进行人口研究。第三，PRI的行政核心目标 提高研究效率和协作，减少与以下项目相关的障碍和负担 研究管理，扩大人口科学的研究范围。

Project Summary: Population Research Institute The Population Research Institute at the Pennsylvania State University (PRI) is a vibrant, interdisciplinary center providing strategic resources to support innovative, high impact population dynamics research. PRI’s overarching aim is to advance the scientific understanding of human population dynamics and processes, with a focus on PRI’s primary research areas. First, through research on communities, neighborhoods and spatial processes, PRI is contributing to our understanding of human population distribution across neighborhoods and communities, the social processes that bring about these spatial patterns, and their consequences for the health and wellbeing of individuals, families and children. Second, PRI scholarship increases knowledge of the causes and consequences of migration and immigrant integration for health and health disparities across the life course and generations. Third, PRI researchers address how families and social networks critically mediate broader social change and social institutions and contribute to observed disparities between advantaged and marginalized groups. Research assesses the structural and social barriers that prevent families from supporting children’s health and well-being. Fourth, PRI supports research in population health with a focus on the social determinants of maternal, child and adolescent morbidity and the important interactions between biological factors and external environments on later development and health. PRI has historical strengths in these areas and benefits from its institutional environment at the Pennsylvania State University that encourages interdisciplinary population research excellence through generous financial and infrastructure support. Through innovation and investment, PRI plans for integration and cross-collaboration across its primary research areas in the next five years. PRI will accomplish this through its additional specific aims. First, PRI aims to develop new leaders in population science, particularly the emerging leaders among junior scholars. With a successful track record as an incubator of population research, PRI’s Development core will provide additional mentoring and support for junior scholars and new opportunities designed to build competitiveness for peer-reviewed external funding and increased impact of population science. Second, PRI aims to foster novel approaches and methods that will make important and cutting-edge contributions to population research through its Computational and Spatial Analysis core. Third, PRI’s Administrative core aims to increase research productivity and collaboration, reducing the barriers and burdens associated with research administration, and increasing the reach of population science.