Population Research Center

人口研究中心

• 批准号: 7996067
• 负责人: HERBERT L. SMITH
• 金额: $ 69.35万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-12-15 至 2013-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7996067
• 关键词: Anthropology; Biological; Demographer; Demography; Development; Economics; Endowment; Evaluation; Fertility; Funding; Grant; Growth; Health; Human Resources; Institute of Medicine (U.S.); Interdisciplinary Study; International; Journals; Medical Sociology; Medicine; Methods; Monoclonal Antibody R24; National Institute of Child Health and Human Development; Pennsylvania; Personal Satisfaction; Policies; Population; Population Research; Population Study; Publications; Recording of previous events; Recruitment Activity; Research; Research Activity; Research Infrastructure; Research Project Grants; Resources; Scientist; Services; Statutes and Laws; Structure; Time; United States National Institutes of Health; Universities; Wages; Work; health inequalities; human population dynamics; human subject; innovation; interest; mortality; peer; population health; programs; ranpirnase; skills; sociologist; statistics

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Population Studies Center (PSC) of the University of Pennsylvania (Penn) was established in 1962 and has enjoyed core support from NICHD under the P30 and R24 mechanisms continuously since 1978. The PSC at Penn comprises 47 program scientists working in the last year on $39.7 million in extramurally funded research projects, with emphasis on: the health and well-being of populations; human resources and endowments; innovation in methods; international population research; policy evaluation; growth and structure of populations; and networks in populations. Their research is highly visible: Penn program scientists' rank 1st among peer population studies centers in publications in leading journals in economics, demography, sociology, and medicine combined during the past five years, and 2nd in citations to these articles. They rank 3rd in number of NIH grants. The PSC is a major national resource for our understanding of the dynamics of human populations, from fertility and mortality to the effects of public programs on health and inequality. Penn program scientists are heavily represented on national scientific boards and commissions, and have earned numerous honors reserved for recognized leaders in understanding the nation's health (e.g., 5 in the Institute of Medicine). Their work has had demonstrable impacts on public programs and legislation in the US and abroad. The PSC is centered on a core of economists, demographers, and sociologists, but has successfully integrated others with interests in population studies and population health, from biological anthropology to medicine to statistics to history. The shared intellectual interests and complementary skills create economies of scale in research that would be lost in the absence of the PSC. We request renewal of essential support for shared services, primarily in research cores dedicated to (a) administrative services for organizing large-scale externally-funded research activities and (b) the computing and information infrastructure for cutting-edge, collaborative scientific activity; and also for (c) developmental activities to generate new projects, recruit new population scientists, and upgrade the skills of others, and (d) a one-time effort to generate a set of best practices relating to human subjects issues arising in international and interdisciplinary research. The PSC, in addition to the monies received from NIH, is generously supported by Penn, especially in the provision of full salary support for population scientists.

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Population Studies Center (PSC) of the University of Pennsylvania (Penn) was established in 1962 and has enjoyed core support from NICHD under the P30 and R24 mechanisms continuously since 1978. The PSC at Penn comprises 47 program scientists working in the last year on $39.7 million in extramurally funded research projects, with emphasis on: the health and well-being of populations;人力资源和捐赠；方法的创新；国际人口研究；政策评估；人口的生长和结构；和人群中的网络。他们的研究非常明显：宾夕法尼亚计划科学家在过去五年中经济学，人口统计学，社会学和医学期刊的出版物中的同伴人口研究中心排名第一，在过去的五年中，第二篇文章引用了第2个。他们在NIH赠款的数量中排名第三。 PSC是我们了解人口动态的主要国家资源，从生育能力和死亡率到公共计划对健康和不平等的影响。宾夕法尼亚州计划科学家在国家科学委员会和委员会上有很大的代表，并为公认的领导者留下了许多荣誉，以了解美国健康的健康状况（例如，医学研究所5）。他们的工作对美国和国外的公共计划和立法产生了明显的影响。 PSC集中在经济学家，人口统计学家和社会学家的核心上，但成功地将其他人融入了人们对人群研究和人群健康的兴趣，从生物人类学到医学，再到统计学再到历史。共同的智力利益和互补技能创造了在没有PSC的情况下会丢失的研究规模经济。我们要求续签共享服务的基本支持，主要是针对（a）用于组织大规模外部资助的研究活动的研究核心，以及（b）用于最先进，协作科学活动的计算和信息基础设施；以及（c）开发活动，以生成新项目，招募新的人群科学家并提高他人的技能，以及（d）一次性的努力，以产生与人类受试者有关的最佳实践，这些实践与国际和跨学科研究引起的人类受试者问题有关。除了从NIH获得的资金外，PSC还得到了宾夕法尼亚州的慷慨支持，尤其是在为人口科学家提供全部薪资支持方面。