Interdisciplinary Training in Nutritional and Population Health Sciences

营养与人口健康科学跨学科培训

• 批准号: 8516034
• 负责人: Ezra S. Susser
• 金额: $ 15.07万
• 依托单位: COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-08-01 至 2016-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8516034
• 关键词: Health Sciences; Nutritional; Training; population health

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal requests support for a new, interdisciplinary post-doctoral training program at Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC). The program will be led by the Institute of Human Nutrition (IHN) and the Department of Epidemiology (EPI), and will be co-directed by Dr. Debra Wolgemuth (IHN) and Dr. Ezra Susser (EPI). The proposed mentors are well-funded and well-published investigators with considerable experience in training Masters and predoctoral students and postdoctoral fellows. A major theme of this training program is to train investigators with translational skills applicable to defining the effects of nutrients and nutrition early in the lifecycle on health outcomes later in life. The proposed program will capitalize on the unique strengths of these two partners within CUMC relevant to this theme: i) basic research in nutritional and metabolic biology in the IHN, and ii) population health science in EPI. The goal of the program is to provide postdoctoral training for research scientists with doctorate or equivalent degrees in a basic science (usually nutritional science), medicine, or in a population health science (usually epidemiology) through didactic and research experience in the complementary discipline. During the minimum two-year training period, the candidates will pursue course work and concomitant research projects in the complementary discipline under the direction of a mentor and co-mentor from each field. The trainees will have the opportunity to obtain an MS degree in the complementary discipline as part of their training. The trainees will retain their original disciplinary focus in basic science or population health science, but their training in the complementary discipline will facilitate engagement in interdisciplinary research which requires partners from both fields, and will make this interdisciplinary research much more effective. Thus trainees of the program will be uniquely prepared to enter translational research environments where bridging disciplines is an essential requirement for cutting edge research to enhance human health.

描述（由申请人提供）：该提案请求支持哥伦比亚大学医学中心 (CUMC) 的新的跨学科博士后培训项目。该计划将由人类营养研究所 (IHN) 和流行病学系 (EPI) 领导，并由 Debra Wolgemuth 博士 (IHN) 和 Ezra Susser 博士 (EPI) 共同指导。拟议的导师是资金雄厚、发表了大量论文的研究人员，在培养硕士、博士生和博士后方面拥有丰富的经验。该培训计划的一个主要主题是培训研究人员具有转化技能，这些技能适用于定义生命周期早期的营养素和营养对以后生活健康结果的影响。拟议的计划将利用 CUMC 内与该主题相关的两个合作伙伴的独特优势：i）IHN 中的营养和代谢生物学基础研究，以及 ii）EPI 中的人口健康科学。该计划的目标是通过补充学科的教学和研究经验，为在基础科学（通常是营养科学）、医学或人口健康科学（通常是流行病学）领域拥有博士学位或同等学位的研究科学家提供博士后培训。在至少两年的培训期间，候选人将在来自各个领域的导师和共同导师的指导下完成互补学科的课程工作和伴随的研究项目。作为培训的一部分，学员将有机会获得补充学科的硕士学位。学员将保留其原有的基础科学或人口健康科学学科重点，但他们在补充学科中的培训将有助于参与需要两个领域的合作伙伴的跨学科研究，并使这种跨学科研究更加有效。因此，该项目的学员将为进入转化研究环境做好独特的准备，在这种环境中，桥梁学科是促进人类健康的前沿研究的基本要求。