Training Program in Cancer-Related Population Sciences

描述（由申请人提供）：在过去的4年里，哥伦比亚大学梅尔曼公共卫生学院有一个nci资助的R25T人口科学癌症研究人员培训项目。就像我们长期的T32项目一样，R25项目是三个部门的教员的合作：流行病学、生物统计学和环境健康科学。越来越多的研究人员在癌症相关的人口科学不仅需要专业知识在自己的特定学科，但广泛的多学科的观点，包括分子遗传学，临床肿瘤学，毒理学，卫生服务和健康结果研究，和行为科学的肤浅理解。R25每年提供6名学员（3名在读博士和3名博士后），接受癌症预防和控制的跨学科教育，获得深入的研究经验，并获得人口科学领域的大量师资支持，并获得许多癌症研究项目的资助。该项目的毕业生已经走上了著名的学术和研究岗位。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): For the past 4 years, the Mailman School of Public Health of Columbia University has had an NCI-funded R25T Training Program for cancer investigators in Population Sciences. Like our longstanding T32 program, the R25 program is a collaboration of faculty in three departments: Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Environmental Health Sciences. Increasingly, investigators in cancer-related population sciences require not only expertise in their own specific disciplines but a broad-based multidisciplinary perspective, including a more than superficial understanding of molecular genetics, clinical oncology, toxicology, health services and health outcomes research, and behavioral sciences. The R25 provides 6 trainees (3 pre- and 3 postdoctoral) annually with cross-disciplinary education in cancer prevention and control, an in-depth research experience, and access to a large faculty in the population sciences with numerous funded research projects in cancer. Graduates of the program have gone on to prestigious academic and research positions. In this competing renewal, we propose to extend our program by providing more training in clinical cancer genetics, health economics, and the basic biology of cancer. In addition to required and recommended courses within the School of Public Health, our program offers an innovative specialized curriculum, with 2-month individualized modules in year 2 giving trainees hands-on experience in: data collection and interviewing in a clinical setting; behavioral research; laboratory research; health services and outcomes; clinical oncology, and data analysis. Each trainee is required to take courses in pathology, research ethics, and research funding; to undertake an in-depth multidisciplinary project with a focus in his/her specialty; and to make two presentations/year at a multidisciplinary weekly conference. Trainees have the opportunity to attend cancer meetings and meetings in their discipline and are encouraged but not required to make presentations at those meetings. Postdoctoral trainees are required to submit research grant proposals for mock peer review by the faculty. For this specialized program, we propose to reduce our trainees from 6 (3 pre-, 3 postdoctoral) to 5 (1 pre-, 4 postdoctoral); to add a Program Coordinator for day-to- day operations; to implement a more detailed evaluation plan; and to add to our Advisory Committee, which oversees recruitment, performance and evaluation of the trainees, an external advisory committee of three outstanding scientist/educators. Our R25 Training Program utilizes the rich research environment of the Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, New York Presbyterian Hospital, Harlem Hospital, the Washington Heights/Harlem communities, and New York City.