Center for Family and Demographic Research

描述(由申请人提供)：保龄格林州立大学(BGSU)家庭和人口研究中心(CFDR)正在响应RFA HD-09-004 R24人口研究基础设施计划。CFDR正在申请第二轮R24资金，以支持一个中心，该中心得到强有力的机构支持，并产生关于儿童、青少年和家庭的健康和福祉的创新和跨学科研究。人口与发展研究中心由来自不同领域和学科的精力充沛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结合起来，以确定人口事件和趋势背后的机制。中心下属机构正在四个广泛的标志性领域开展高质量的前沿研究：家庭和家庭；青少年发展和成年初期；背景下的犯罪和暴力；以及健康和福祉。通过招募和留住有才华的研究人员并成功竞争主要的联邦拨款和合同，CFDR正在发展壮大并获得势头。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，以激励本已杰出的研究人员的创造力和生产力。儿童和青少年研究中心未来的目标是促进关于社会环境如何影响儿童、青少年和家庭的科学知识，并开创收集创新数据的新方法。为了实现这些目标，中心正在为三个研究支助核心(行政核心、计算核心、数据和信息核心)和一个学院发展核心申请资金。这些中心共同创造了通过工作组、研讨会系列和年度研讨会进行智力交流的机会；通过研讨会、培训奖和种子赠款提高教师发展和研究生产率；并为开展和传播研究以及成功提交和管理赠款提供所需的实际援助。粮食安全中心基础设施的一项新功能支持附属机构收集试点数据的努力。该中心能够通过BGSU的费用分担来确保成本效益。 公共卫生相关性：CFDR的研究与NICHD人口和行为科学处(DBSB)目前的研究领域一致，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，早期生活中出现的健康差距，以及青少年感染艾滋病毒/性传播疾病和怀孕的风险。在我们的主持下进行的大部分研究都侧重于高危人群。

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.