Family Demography Training

描述(由申请人提供)：本提案要求将宾夕法尼亚州立大学NICHD国家研究服务奖机构培训补助金续期五年，用于家庭人口学培训：背景、发展和生物行为过程。我们请求继续支持目前的四个博士后和一个博士后培训时段。在我们的全国排名(排名第五)和研究生院授予的人类发展与家庭研究(发展心理学)和人口学与社会学和人口学双学科博士项目的基础上，我们提出了一个博士前项目，将个人发展科学和生物行为科学与我们在核心人口学/人口科学(方法、理论和人口过程-生育、健康/死亡率、移民/移民、老龄化、家庭状况变化)方面的强大(至少八门课程)培训相结合，为新一代家庭人口学研究科学家提供明显的跨学科培训经验。博士后计划的重点是加强家庭人口学和个人发展方面的研究。拟议培训计划的一个优点是，它汇集了28名研究活跃、主要是高级学术级别的人口教职员工，他们在与家庭人口学相关的背景、发展和生物行为学术方面具有专业知识，他们的赠款活动得到了宾夕法尼亚州立人口研究所强大的研究基础设施的支持。这种知识环境为博士后和博士后实习生研究学徒提供了丰富的机会。博士前实习生是从每年约335名申请者和学生中招募的，这些申请者和学生目前就读于两个全国排名较高的参与学术部门。在我们过去九年的NRSA培训资助中，91%的博士后和博士后学员要么获得了人口学双博士学位，要么完成了他们的课程，或者目前已经注册并有望成功完成他们的课程。 与公共卫生的相关性：与公共卫生的相关性主要是因为家庭对儿童的健康和发展以及成人的福祉非常重要，而且在过去几十年中，家庭形式和家庭构成发生了巨大变化。在这一背景下，至关重要的是培训具有新的跨学科知识和方法技能的下一代家庭人口学研究人员。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal requests a five-year renewal of the Penn State NICHD National Research Service Awards Institutional Training grant for Family Demography Training: Contextual, Developmental, and Biobehavioral Processes. We request continued support for the current four predoctoral and one postdoctoral training slot. Building on our nationally ranked (#5) and Graduate School awarded dual-discipline Ph.D. program in Human Development and Family Studies (developmental psychology) and Demography and in Sociology and Demography, we propose a predoctoral program which integrates individual developmental science and biobehavioral science with our strong (eight-course minimum) training in core demography/population science (methods, theory, and population processes - fertility, health/mortality, migration/immigration, aging, family status change) for a manifestly interdisciplinary training experience for a new generation of family demography research scientist. The postdoctoral program is focused on enhancing research in family demography and individual development. A strength of the proposed training program is that it brings together 28 research-active primarily advanced academic-rank population faculty with expertise in contextual, developmental, and biobehavioral scholarship related to family demography, and whose grant activity is supported by the strong research infrastructure of the Penn State Population Research Institute. This intellectual environment provides rich opportunities for pre- and postdoctoral trainee research apprenticeships. Predoctoral trainees are recruited from the approximately 335 annual applicants to and students currently enrolled in the two high nationally-ranked participating academic departments. Over the past nine years of our NRSA training grant, 91 percent of all pre- and postdoctoral trainees have either been awarded their dual-PhD in Demography or completed their program, or are currently enrolled and on track to successfully complete their program. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The relevance to public health is primarily because families are so important for the health and development of children and well-being of adults, and because there have been dramatic changes in family forms and family formation during the last several decades. Within this context, it is critical to train the next generation of family demography researchers with new interdisciplinary knowledge and methodological skills.