Interdisciplinary Research Training on Health and Aging

描述(由申请者提供)：该计划名为“公共卫生和老龄领域的跨学科研究培训”，旨在将目前的奖项延续五年，该奖项最初于2008年资助，资助至2013年4月。该计划的总体目标是提供关于社会和行为决定因素的培训，以及通过对老年人不良健康后果的生物易感过程的调解或与其相互作用，如降低存活率、老年综合征和共病、认知能力下降和痴呆症以及残疾。这一重点的理由在于，这项研究有可能确定预防、管理和治疗与老龄化相关的慢性健康状况及其功能后果的新机会。该计划确定了社会流行病学的学科基础，同时强调从其他学科角度与学术活动合作，包括其他公共卫生科学、社会科学、生物科学和医学。本申请申请资助4名博士前实习生。该项目将设在密歇根大学公共卫生学院流行病学系社会流行病学和人口健康中心(CSEPH)。CSEPH为公共卫生和老龄领域的跨学科培训计划提供了极其丰富的知识环境，这是因为CSEPH及其教职员工与密歇根大学的大量研究机构和中心建立了联系。该培训计划包括25名导师，他们拥有完善的研究和培训记录，涵盖了各种学科背景。培训计划包括一个结构化的教学和指导计划，包括以下相互关联的组成部分：1)指导研究活动；2)老龄流行病学和相关主题的课程工作，以及参加公共卫生和老龄研究研讨会；以及3)参加密歇根大学提供的其他培训和增收机会。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The proposed program, "Interdisciplinary Research Training in Public Health and Aging" seeks a five-year continuation of the current award, which was funded originally in 2008 and is supported through April, 2013. The overall objective of the program is to provide training in the social and behavioral determinants, and their mediation through or interaction with biological susceptibility processes of adverse health outcomes in older age, such as reduced survival, geriatric syndromes and co-morbidities, cognitive decline and dementia, and disability. The rationale for this focus lies in the potential of this research t identify new opportunities for the prevention, management and treatment of aging-related chronic health conditions and their functional consequences. The program defines its disciplinary foundation in social epidemiology, while emphasizing collaboration with scholarly activity from other disciplinary perspectives, including other public health sciences, social sciences, biological sciences and medical sciences. This application requests funds for the support of 4 pre-doctoral trainees. The Program will be located in the Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health (CSEPH), Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan School of Public Health. CSEPH provides an exceptionally rich intellectual environment for an interdisciplinary training program in public health and aging, due to the interconnections of CSEPH and its faculty with a large number of research Institutes and Centers at the University of Michigan. The training program includes 25 mentors with well-established research and training records encompassing a variety of disciplinary backgrounds. The training program consists of a structured program of teaching and mentoring with the following inter-related components: 1) mentored research activity; 2) course work in the epidemiology of aging and related subject matters, and participation in public health and aging research seminars; and 3) participation in other training and enrichment opportunities available at the University of Michigan.