Prevention Research Training Program - Program Description
Program Philosophy
Our underlying educational assumption is that successful prevention researchers must be well grounded in three broad areas:
- Research methodology, statistics, and ethics
- Epidemiology and etiology of health-related behaviors
- The sciences of behavioral and social change and public health
In addition, such researchers require some understanding of the impact of educational and public health policy and management on the design, implementation, and evaluation of prevention programs, and the role of education and health policy and management on preventing health-compromising behaviors and encouraging health-enhancing behaviors.
Program Design
The duration of both the predoctoral and postdoctoral training program is three years, and both provide a structured research training experience that integrates course work, core prevention research experience, and seminars and intervention experience in a transdisciplinary context with multidisciplinary faculty.
Fellows serve on project teams, implement research protocols, oversee quality control and data management procedures, and participate in career development activities. Fellows participate in the grant writing and publication process, and share in authorship and investigator status in a manner commensurate with their effort and responsibilities. For interested candidates, there are opportunities to develop quantitative and statistical expertise in the areas of structural equation, multi-level, and longitudinal modeling. Fellows may also develop collaborative projects that can be used to further their own research interests.