Columbia Population Research Center

描述（由申请人提供）：哥伦比亚人口研究中心（CPRC）寻求R24人口研究基础设施项目-短期支持NICHD/NIH人口和行为科学部门的上升项目（PAR-07-401）。我们要求在2009年7月1日开始的五年期间提供75万美元的直接费用。CPRC有四个标志性的研究领域：(1)儿童，青年和家庭，(2)艾滋病毒/艾滋病和生殖健康，(3)移民和迁移，(4)城市化。这四个领域的研究由两个交叉主题联合起来：(1)弱势群体的健康和福祉；(2)针对这些脆弱性的公共卫生和社会政策的形成、实施和评估。我们的目标是：(1)在哥伦比亚大学培养一个充满活力的人口研究知识界；(2)推进四大标志性领域的人口研究；(3)成为一个主要的人口中心，专门研究地方、国家和国际上弱势群体的健康和福祉，以及与这些群体有关的公共政策；(4)利用哥伦比亚大学在纽约市的地理位置，既要解决其作为全球城市的特殊或加剧的问题，也要利用并进一步发展哥伦比亚大学研究人员与当地学术机构、城市和国际机构之间的许多合作伙伴关系。我们将通过三个研究支持核心（管理、计算/数据/信息（GDI）和方法论）和一个发展基础设施核心来实现这些目标，这将促进哥伦比亚大学教师之间跨学科和跨校园的研究联系，他们的工作将推动这些目标。在五年内，CPRC预计将在全面的人口基础设施计划奖项中具有很强的竞争力。CPRC由Irwin Garfinkel（社会工作学院Mitchell I. Ginsberg当代城市问题教授）和Constance A. Nathanson（梅尔曼公共卫生学院临床社会医学和人口与家庭健康教授）共同领导。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Columbia Population Research Center (CPRC) seeks R24 Population Research Infrastructure Program - Short-term Support for Rising Programs from the Demographic and Behavioral Sciences Branch at NICHD/NIH (PAR-07-401). We request $750,000 in direct costs over the five-year period beginning July 1, 2009. CPRC has four signature areas of research: (1) children, youth, and families, (2) HIV/AIDS and reproductive health, (3) immigration and migration, and (4) urbanism. Research In these four areas is united by two cross-cutting themes: (1) the health and well-being of vulnerable populations; and (2) the formation, implementation, and evaluation of public health and social policies that address these vulnerabilities. Our goals are to: (1) nourish a vibrant intellectual community of population researchers at Columbia University; (2) advance population research in our four signature areas; (3) become a leading population center specializing In research on the health and well being of vulnerable populations locally, nationally, and internationally, and on public policies relevant to those populations; and (4) take advantage of Columbia's location in New York City, both to address Issues specific to or aggravated by its status as a global city, and also to exploit and further develop the many partnerships between Columbia researchers and local academic, city, and International institutions. We will accomplish these goals through three research support cores (Administration, Computing/Data/information (GDI) and Methodology) and a Developmental Infrastructure Core that will foster cross-disciplinary and cross-campus research linkages among Columbia faculty whose work advances those goals. Within 5 years, CPRC expects to be highly competitive for a full-scale Population Infrastructure Program award. CPRC is co-directed by Irwin Garfinkel, Mitchell I. Ginsberg Professor of Contemporary Urban Problems in the Faculty of Social Work, and Constance A. Nathanson, Professor of Clinical Sociomedlcal Sciences and of Population and Family Health in the Mailman School of Public Health. RELEVANCE: CPRC will contribute to the public's health both by our commitment to unraveling the social, economic, and environmental circumstances that contribute to health risks, in particular risks to populations made vulnerable by poverty, race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and migrant status, and by our equal commitment to translating our research into policies to mitigate those risks.