Research Training for Cancer Epidemiology & Biostatistics in China

描述(申请人提供)：在过去的三十年里，随着经济的快速发展和环境的严重恶化，中国患人类癌症的风险迅速增加。癌症现在是中国的头号杀手，2006年癌症治疗费用达到中国每年总医疗费用的20%以上，这个数字实际上被严重低估了。面对中国不断增加的癌症负担的严重后果，中国政府认识到全国范围内环境条件的恶化和人类健康可能危及经济发展，采取了重大措施预防和控制癌症。然而，中国在面对和抗击癌症的战争中面临着许多挑战。如今中国在癌症防控方面的一大短板，就是在癌症研究的各个主要领域都严重缺乏训练有素的人才。此应用程序的主要目标是确保必要的资源，以便在中国医学科学院癌症研究所(CI-CAMS，指定为中国国家癌症中心)内建立一个癌症研究和教学卓越中心，该中心由中央政府授权负责中国的癌症预防和控制工作。这些资源将用于(1)培训中国癌症研究中心急需的科学家，以制定适当的策略，更好地了解和更有效地应对中国癌症负担日益加重的新威胁；(2)建立基础设施，使中国癌症研究中心成为全国癌症相关研究的教学和研究中心；以及(3)加强中国国家癌症登记局的职能，使其成为协调和监督中国癌症登记的全国英才中心。培训目标将通过从CI-CAMS的教员和现有博士后项目中挑选出来的受训者实现，他们将通过长期/中期/短期培训或研讨会和基于互联网的辅导系统在耶鲁大学公共卫生学院(YSPH)接受教育和指导。培训将强调癌症流行病学和生物统计学主要领域的原则和方法。该培训计划将由CI-CAMS和耶鲁大学都有代表的项目学院管理。耶鲁大学，尤其是耶鲁理工大学，在与中国之前的研究和培训合作方面有着悠久的历史。我们预计，该项目的学员将唯一有资格成为未来中国癌症研究领域的领导者。公共卫生相关性(未输入)

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Following the rapid economic development and the severe environmental deterioration during the past three decades, human cancer risk has been increasing rapidly in China. Cancer now is the number one killer in China and the costs for cancer treatment in 2006 reached more than 20% of the annual total medical costs in China, and this number is actually considered to be seriously underestimated. Facing the grave consequence of the ever increasing cancer burden in China; realizing that nationwide deterioration in environmental conditions and human health could jeopardize the economic development, the Chinese government has taken major steps to prevent and control cancer. China, however, faces many challenges in confronting and battling the war against cancer. One of the major shortcomings for cancer prevention and control in China today is the severe lack of well-trained personnel in all major areas of cancer studies. The primary goal of this application is to secure the resources necessary to build a center of excellence in research and teaching in cancer studies within the Cancer Institute, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (CI-CAMS, the designated China National Cancer Center), which is mandated by the central government to be responsible for China's cancer prevention and control. The resources will be used to (1) train scientists urgently needed in the CI-CAMS to develop appropriate strategies to better understand and more effectively respond to the emerging threat from the increasing cancer burden in China; (2) build an infrastructure that will allow CI-CAMS to function as a national center for teaching and research in cancer-related studies; and (3) strengthen China's National Cancer Registration Office to function as a national center of excellence for coordinating and monitoring China's cancer registration. The training goals will be achieved through trainees, selected from faculty and existing pre/post-doctoral programs at CI-CAMS, who will receive education and mentoring at Yale School of Public Health (YSPH) through long-term/intermediate/short-term training or workshops and internet-based tutorial system. The training will emphasize principles and methods in major areas of cancer epidemiology and biostatistics. This training program will be administered by a Program Faculty with representation from both CI-CAMS and Yale University. Yale University, YSPH in particular, has a strong history of prior research and training collaborations with China. We anticipate that trainees of this program will be uniquely qualified to be future leaders in the field of cancer research in China. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE (None entered)