Research Networks in Biodemography and Demography of Aging

生物人口学和老龄人口学研究网络

• 批准号: 8079240
• 负责人: SHRIPAD D. TULJAPURKAR
• 金额: $ 23.92万
• 依托单位: STANFORD UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-09-30 至 2015-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8079240
• 关键词: Research; Networks; Biodemography; Demography; Aging

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Research on aging and health requires knowledge, methods, ideas and data from multiple disciplines and presents great opportunities for cross-fertilization between disciplines. But there are many challenges to cross-fertilization - communicating questions across disciplines, cross-teaching researchers in aging about other fields, and stimulating innovative collaborations between established scientists from different fields to work on aging. This project will address these challenges by developing research networks via the following specific aims: Specific Aim 1: Conduct training workshops in the formal demography and biodemography of aging to train young and new investigators in diverse analytical and quantitative approaches to aging. Specific Aim 2: Organize catalysis meetings to stimulate cross-disciplinary collaborative research on aging that deals with several broad questions - the interplay between genetics and behavioral and social factors, theories and data on social networks, and the integration into aging research of work on quantitative and population genetics and genomics, evolutionary and ecological genetics, epidemiology and health policy. Specific Aim 3: Organize advanced workshops/seminars to bring together small groups of researchers to focus intensively on particular questions and data in aging research, using a variety of tools including short working group meetings, web-based seminars and workshops, and other web-based collaborative tools. Training workshops teach young and new researchers about recent scientific work on aging and provide links to established investigators. Catalysis meetings, successful in other fields, provide a stimulating setting in which a small group explores and formulates new cross-disciplinary ideas. Advanced workshops are expected to emerge from catalysis meetings and go beyond them by allowing researchers with substantive interests in a problem to work through in detail ideas and plans for collaborative work. These activities will strengthen research on aging and launch collaborative research in several emerging areas as requested in the FOA on Network Infrastructure Support for Emercino Behavioral and Social Research Areas in Aoinc. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: This project will provide training in methods, knowledge and techniques from new, emerging and diverse fields (such as genomics, genetics, and network analysis) to young and established researchers in aging. By so doing the project will enhance aging research and promote new and novel scientific collaborations.

描述（申请人提供）：老龄化与健康研究需要多学科的知识、方法、思想和数据，为学科间的交叉融合提供了巨大的机会。但交叉融合也面临许多挑战——跨学科交流问题、对其他领域的老龄化研究人员进行交叉教学，以及促进来自不同领域的知名科学家之间在老龄化研究方面的创新合作。该项目将通过以下具体目标发展研究网络来应对这些挑战： 具体目标 1：举办有关老龄化的正式人口统计学和生物人口统计学的培训研讨会，以培训年轻和新的研究人员采用多种老龄化分析和定量方法。具体目标 2：组织催化会议，促进老龄化问题的跨学科合作研究，涉及几个广泛的问题——遗传学、行为和社会因素之间的相互作用、社交网络上的理论和数据，以及将定量工作纳入老龄化研究人口遗传学和基因组学、进化和生态遗传学、流行病学和卫生政策。具体目标 3：组织高级讲习班/研讨会，将研究人员小组聚集在一起，集中研究老龄化研究中的特定问题和数据，使用各种工具，包括简短的工作组会议、基于网络的研讨会和讲习班以及其他网络研讨会。基于协作工具。 培训讲习班向年轻和新的研究人员传授有关衰老的最新科学研究工作，并提供与知名研究人员的联系。催化会议在其他领域取得了成功，它提供了一个令人兴奋的环境，让一小群人探索和制定新的跨学科想法。高级研讨会预计将从催化会议中产生，并超越催化会议，让对某个问题有实质性兴趣的研究人员能够详细讨论协作工作的想法和计划。这些活动将加强对老龄化的研究，并根据 FOA 为 Aoinc 的 Emercino 行为和社会研究领域提供网络基础设施支持的要求，在几个新兴领域开展合作研究。 公共卫生相关性：该项目将为年轻和成熟的老龄化研究人员提供来自新兴和多样化领域（例如基因组学、遗传学和网络分析）的方法、知识和技术的培训。通过这样做，该项目将加强衰老研究并促进新的和新颖的科学合作。