Career Development in Women's Health (CDWH)

女性健康职业发展 (CDWH)

• 批准号: 8538485
• 负责人: Andrea E Dunaif
• 金额: $ 36.05万
• 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/8538485
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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.

描述（由申请人提供）： 西北大学 (NU) 建立女性健康跨学科职业 (BIRCWH) 女性健康职业发展 (CDWH) 计划于 2007 年设立，旨在培训下一代科学家在科学领域从事独立的跨学科职业性别差异以及与妇女健康相关的其他领域。这一目标将继续通过汇集一批在生殖科学和对妇女有不同影响的疾病方面具有专业知识的导师队伍来继续实现，为学者们提供与阐明影响健康的性和性别因素相关的跨学科研究经验。在此过程中，NU BIRCWH CDWH 计划还将促进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，这对于女教师来说尤其具有挑战性。生殖科学和对妇女有不同影响的疾病领域的卓越机构、NU 强大的合作文化以及机构资源对职业发展的持续承诺极大地促进了该计划的实施。该计划在第一个奖励期取得了巨大成功，录取了八名学者并毕业了五名学者，其中三人现在获得了独立的资助支持。一名完成该计划的学者是少数族裔。导师的选择是因为他们在 RFA 中确定的与妇女健康相关的总体主题方面具有专业知识：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。他们分布在范伯格医学院（医学、神经病学、妇产科、预防医学、精神病学和行为科学）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）的七个系。 NU BIRCWH CDWH 导师的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——自身免疫和感染性疾病； 4）代谢功能； 5）神经科学； 6）生殖生物学。应该指出的是，许多 NU BIRCWH CDWH 导师都有长期的跨学科项目，这意味着他们可以很好地适应我们的多个研究类别。 NU BIRCWH CDWH 学者将被指派来自至少两个不同学科和培训背景的导师，以进行跨学科研究和职业发展。每位学者的导师将与学者密切互动，并作为跨学科指导团队的一部分提供指导，制定量身定制的职业发展计划。导师们都致力于在整个颁奖期间继续参与。该计划将继续受到外部咨询委员会和监督委员会的监督，该委员会的成员都是其他机构的 BIRCWH PI。 NU Searle 教学卓越中心已经实施了正式的项目评估。