Career Development in Women's Health (CDWH)

女性健康职业发展 (CDWH)

• 批准号: 8366746
• 负责人: Andrea E Dunaif
• 金额: $ 50万
• 依托单位: NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-09-27 至 2017-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8366746
• 关键词: Address; Advisory Committees; Affect; Area; Arts; Attention; Autoimmunity; Award; Behavioral Sciences; Cardiovascular system; Categories; Commit; Communicable Diseases; Development Plans; Discipline; Discipline of obstetrics; Disease; Educational process of instructing; Epidemiology; Equilibrium; Faculty; Gender; Grant; Gynecology; Health; Institution; Interdisciplinary Study; Life; Longevity; Medicine; Mentors; Metabolic; Molecular; Monitor; Nature; Neurobiology; Neurology; Neurosciences; Physiology; Preventive Medicine; Program Evaluation; Psychiatry; Reproductive Biology; Research; Resources; Science; Scientist; Sex Characteristics; Training; Underrepresented Minority; Universities; Woman; Women' s Health; Work; base; career; career development; college; experience; health disparity; immune function; medical schools; member; next generation; programs; reproductive; research and development; sex

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Northwestern University (NU) Building Interdisciplinary Career's in Women's Health (BIRCWH) Career Development in Women's Health (CDWH) program was established in 2007 to train the next generation of scientists for independent, interdisciplinary careers in the science of sex differences and in other fields relevant to women's health. This objective will continue to be accomplished by bringing together a cadre of mentors with expertise in reproductive sciences and in diseases that differentially affect women to provide the Scholars with interdisciplinary research experiences relevant to elucidating sex and gender factors affecting health. In so doing, the NU BIRCWH CDWH Program will also enhance the career development of junior faculty, with particular attention to addressing work-life balance issues that can be especially challenging for women faculty. The institutional excellence in reproductive sciences and in diseases differentially affecting women, strong collaborative culture of NU and ongoing commitment of institutional resources to career development have greatly facilitated the Program. The Program has been exceptionally successful in the first award period matriculating eight Scholars and graduating five, three of whom now have independent grant support. One Scholar who has completed the Program was an under-represented minority. The Mentors have been selected for their expertise in the overarching themes relevant to women's health identified in the RFA: Lifespan, Sex/Gender Determinants, Health Disparities/Differences and Diversity, and Interdisciplinary Research. They are based in seven departments in Feinberg School of Medicine (Medicine, Neurology, Obstetrics & Gynecology, Preventive Medicine, and Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences) and Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences (Molecular Biosciences, Neurobiology and Physiology). There are six general areas of NU BIRCWH CDWH Mentor expertise: 1) cardiovascular health and disease; 2) epidemiology and behavioral science; 3) immune function - autoimmunity and infectious diseases; 4) metabolic function; 5) neuroscience; and 6) reproductive biology. It should be noted that many of the NU BIRCWH CDWH Mentors have longstanding programs that are interdisciplinary in nature, which means that they could fit well within more than one of our research categories. NU BIRCWH CDWH Scholars will be assigned Mentors from at least two different disciplines and training backgrounds for interdisciplinary research and career development. Each Scholar's Mentors will interact closely with the Scholar and provide guidance to develop a tailored career development plan as part of an interdisciplinary mentoring team. The Mentors are all committed to continuing their involvement throughout the award period. The Program will continue to be monitored by the External Advisory Committee whose members are all BIRCWH PIs at other institutions as well as by the Oversight Committee. Formal Program evaluation has already been implemented by the NU Searle Center for Teaching Excellence. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Understanding the sex and gender determinants of disease processes is critical for improving not only women's but also men's health. The Northwestern University Building Interdisciplinary Careers in Women's Health Career Development in Women's Health Program will train the next generation of independent investigators in the interdisciplinary science of sex differences and in other fields relevant to women's health.

描述（由申请人提供）：西北大学（NU）建立了妇女健康跨学科职业（BIRCWH）妇女健康职业（CDWH）计划（CDWH）计划，于2007年成立，旨在培训下一代科学家，从事独立的，跨学科的职业，在性别差异和其他领域与妇女健康有关。通过将一批具有生殖科学专业知识和差异化影响妇女的疾病专业知识的导师汇集在一起​​，将继续实现这一目标，从而为学者提供与阐明性别和影响健康的性别因素有关的跨学科研究经验。这样一来，NU BIRCWH CDWH计划还将增强初级教师的职业发展，特别关注解决工作与生活的平衡问题，这对女性教师来说尤其具有挑战性。生殖科学和疾病的卓越机构卓越，对妇女有差异化，强大的NU协作文化以及制度资源对职业发展的持续承诺极大地促进了该计划。该计划在第一个奖项期间非常成功，该奖项是八名学者并毕业的五名学者，其中3个现在拥有独立的赠款支持。一位完成该计划的学者是代表性不足的少数民族。这些导师在与RFA中确定的妇女健康相关的总体主题方面的专业知识被选中：寿命，性别/性别决定因素，健康差异/差异和多样性以及跨学科研究。它们位于Feinberg医学院的七个部门（医学，神经病学，妇产科，预防医学以及精神病学与行为科学）和温伯格艺术与科学学院（分子生物科学，神经生物学和生理学）。 NU Bircwh CDWH指导专业知识有六个一般领域：1）心血管健康和疾病； 2）流行病学和行为科学； 3）免疫功能 - 自身免疫和传染病； 4）代谢功能； 5）神经科学； 6）生殖生物学。应当指出的是，许多NU Bircwh CDWH导师都有长期存在的跨学科的计划，这意味着它们可以很好地适合我们的研究类别之一。 Nu Bircwh CDWH学者将被分配至少两个不同学科和培训背景的导师，以跨学科研究和职业发展。每个学者的导师将与学者紧密互动，并为制定量身定制的职业发展计划作为跨学科指导团队的一部分提供指导。导师都致力于在整个奖励期间继续参与。该计划将继续受到外部咨询委员会的监视，其成员都是其他机构以及监督委员会的Bircwh PI。 NU Searle卓越教学中心已经实施了正式的计划评估。 公共卫生相关性：了解疾病过程的性别和性别决定因素，对于改善女性的健康至关重要。妇女健康计划中妇女健康职业发展的西北大学建设跨学科职业将培训性别差异跨学科科学以及与妇女健康有关的其他领域的独立研究人员。