California Center for Population Research

描述（由申请人提供）：加州大学洛杉矶分校（UCLA）的加州人口研究中心成立于1998年，并于2001年获得五年人口研究基础设施奖（R24）。该中心为一群多元化和跨学科的人口科学家培育了一个知识家园，他们的合作研究正在推进公共卫生，解决健康和健康差距，探索家庭，邻里和社区影响;解决社会和经济流动性和不平等问题;监测移民及其后果;推进人口研究的数据和方法。CPR支持其研究人员与行政，计算和信息核心，并与两个新的研究核心，生物人口学和空间人口学，以及一个新扩大的发展基础设施核心，为创新研究提供小额赠款，并培养新的人口科学家。核心支持社区卫生科学，经济学，流行病学，地理学，老年学，法律，政策研究，心理学，社会学和统计学的近50名教师。研究和教学讲习班和工作组提供智力刺激，引入新的领域，促进跨学科的调查，提供非正式培训，帮助整合CCPR教师和学生的不同兴趣和技能，并创造与中心的认同感。公民权利和政治权利委员会的一个关键优势是其对研究的支持，特别是对项目的行政和数据支持，这在校外资金的惊人增长中显而易见。在其第一个R24的五年里，CCPR的直接成本校外资金从每年500万美元增长到目前的2700万美元，从30个NIH和NSF奖项增长到71个。总的来说，公民权利和政治权利委员会的教师附属机构有110个积极的校外资助赠款。CCPR的研究人员在世界各地进行研究，选择的地点是为了测试超越当地地区的假设。R24的支持使CCPR能够提供对这项工作至关重要的服务，从申请准备和分包问题的行政支持到最先进的计算和信息服务。新的生物人口学和空间人口学核心将鼓励生物学，健康科学和地理学进一步融入人口科学。这两个核心都是为了满足公民权利和政治权利委员会正在进行的工作所面临的需要。在公民权利和政治权利委员会目前的服务环境中增加它们的活动将加速这些领域的工作。扩大后的发展基础设施核心将有助于促进新的想法，为寻求校外资金做准备，为人口研究相对较新的科学家提供支持，并鼓励新领域的跨学科合作。拟议方案的各项活动结合起来，将使人权事务委员会能够在过去五年来形成的巨大势头的基础上进一步发展。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The California Center for Population Research at the University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA), was founded in 1998 and received a five-year Population Research Infrastructure Award (R24) in 2001. The Center has fostered an intellectual home for a diverse and interdisciplinary group of population scientists whose collaborative research is advancing public health, addressing health and health disparities, exploring family, neighborhood, and community effects; addressing social and economic mobility and inequality; monitoring migration and its consequences; and advancing data and methods for population research. CPR supports its researchers with Administrative, Computing, and Information Cores, and with two new research cores, Biodemography and Spatial Demography, and a newly expanded Developmental Infrastructure Core that offers small grants for innovative research and nurtures new population scientists. The cores support almost 50 faculty in community health sciences, economics, epidemiology, geography, gerontology, law, policy studies, psychology, sociology, and statistics. Research and didactic workshops and Working Groups provide intellectual stimulation, introduce new areas, facilitate interdisciplinary inquiry, provide informal training, help integrate the diverse interests and skills of CCPR faculty and students, and create a sense of identification with the Center. A key strength of CCPR is its support of research, especially administrative and data support for projects, which is evident in the astonishing growth of extramural funding. In five years of its first R24, CCPR's direct-cost extramural funding has grown from $5m per year to the current $27m, and from 30 NIH and NSF awards to 71. In total, CCPR faculty affiliates have 110 active extramurally funded grants. CCPR researchers conduct research around the world at sites chosen to test hypotheses that transcend local areas. Support from the R24 allows CCPR to provide services that are critical to this work, ranging from administrative support for application preparation and subcontracting issues to state of the art computing and information services. The new Biodemography and Spatial Demography cores will encourage further integration of biology, health sciences, and geography into population science. Both cores respond to needs faced by ongoing work at CCPR. The addition of their activities to CCPR's current service environment will accelerate the work in these areas. The expanded Developmental Infrastructure Core will help to promote nascent ideas in preparation for pursuing extramural funding, to provide support to scientists relatively new to population studies, and to encourage interdisciplinary collaborations in new areas. In combination the activities of the proposed program will allow CCPR to build further on the considerable momentum it has developed over the past five years.