Center for Family and Demographic Research

描述（由申请人提供）：鲍林绿色州立大学（BGSU）的家庭和人口研究中心（CFDR）正在对R24人口研究基础设施计划的RFA HD-09-004做出回应。CFDR正在申请第二轮R24资金，以支持一个获得强大机构支持的中心，并就儿童，青少年和家庭的健康和福祉进行创新和跨学科研究。CFDR由来自各个领域和学科的高度活跃和活跃的研究人员组成，他们将人口学与广泛的社会科学观点相结合，以确定人口事件和趋势的机制。CFDR附属机构正在四个广泛的签名领域进行高质量的尖端研究：家庭和住户;青少年发展和成年初显;背景下的犯罪和暴力;以及健康和福祉。CFDR正在发展壮大，并从招募和留住有才华的研究人员和成功地竞争主要的联邦赠款和合同中获得动力。第二轮R24资金将使CFDR能够继续提供所需的科学领导，行政支持和知识界，以激发已经杰出的研究人员群体的创造力和生产力。CFDR的未来目标是推进关于社会环境如何影响儿童，青少年和家庭的科学知识，并开拓创新数据收集的新方法。为了实现这些目标，CFDR正在为三个研究支持核心（行政核心，计算核心，数据和信息核心）和一个教师发展核心申请资金。这些核心共同创造机会，通过工作组，研讨会系列和年度专题讨论会进行智力交流;通过讲习班，培训奖和种子赠款提高教师的发展和研究生产力;并提供进行和传播研究所需的实际援助，并成功地提交和管理赠款。CFDR基础设施的一个新特点是支持附属机构收集试点数据。CFDR能够通过BGSU的成本分摊来确保成本效率。 公共卫生相关性：CFDR的研究与目前的NICHD人口和行为科学分支（DBSB）研究领域保持一致，包括人口健康的原因和后果。我们的研究还与DBSB的未来方向一致，包括家庭如何以及为什么发生变化，早期生活中健康差异的出现，以及艾滋病毒/性传播疾病和怀孕的青年风险。在我们主持下进行的大部分研究侧重于高危人群。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Center for Family and Demographic Research (CFDR) at Bowling Green State University (BGSU) is responding to RFA HD-09-004 for the R24 Population Research Infrastructure Program. The CFDR is requesting a second round of R24 funding to support a center that receives strong institutional support and generates innovative and interdisciplinary research on the health and well-being of children, adolescents, and families. The CFDR consists of a highly energized and active group of researchers from a variety of fields and disciplines who are integrating demography with broad social scientific perspectives to identify mechanisms underlying demographic events and trends. CFDR affiliates are generating high quality cutting- edge research in four broad signature areas: families and households; adolescent development and emerging adulthood; crime and violence in context; and health and well-being. The CFDR is growing and gaining momentum from recruiting and retaining talented researchers and successfully competing for major federal grants and contracts. A second round of R24 funding will enable the CFDR to continue providing the scientific leadership, administrative support, and intellectual community required to spur the creativity and productivity of an already outstanding group of researchers. The future goals of the CFDR are to advance scientific knowledge on how social contexts influence children, adolescents, and families and to pioneer new approaches to the collection of innovative data. To achieve these goals, the CFDR is requesting funds for three Research Support Cores (Administrative Core, Computing Core, and Data and Information Core) and a Faculty Development Core. Together, these cores create opportunities for intellectual exchange through working groups, seminar series, and annual symposia; enhance faculty development and research productivity through workshops, training awards, and seed grants; and provide the practical assistance required to conduct and disseminate research and to successfully submit and administer grants. A new feature of the CFDR infrastructure supports efforts on the part of affiliates to collect pilot data. The CFDR is able to assure cost-efficiency through cost-sharing from BGSU. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: CFDR research aligns with the current NICHD Demographic and Behavioral Sciences Branch (DBSB) research domains, including the causes and consequences of population health. Our research is additionally consistent with the future directions of the DBSB, including how and why families are changing, the emergence of health disparities in early life, and youth risks of HIV/sexually transmitted diseases and pregnancy. Much of the research conducted under our auspices focuses on high-risk populations.