# Interdisciplinary Research Training Program for International Population Science

> **NIH NIH R25** · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · 2022 · $155,827

## Abstract

PROJECT SUMMARY
 Across the past five decades, data creation investments in the U.S. and Western Europe have spurred
dramatic breakthroughs in the social and behavioral sciences. The creation of large scientific studies of human
behavior and social experience in the general population form a crucial cornerstone of these investments.
Because the data from these studies are so important for the construction and evaluation of public policies and
programs to improve the health and wellbeing of the population, NICHD places a high scientific priority on
research educational tools that significantly expand the scientific use of such data. The primary limitation of
these research education efforts thus far is an exclusive focus on data from the U.S. population. This greatly
restricts the ability to test the external validity of key findings, raising the possibility that even within the U.S.
population findings from any particular study population may not apply to important sub-populations. Research
education on data resources from populations living under circumstances quite different from the U.S. and
Western Europe are urgently needed so that social and behavioral scientists can quickly and easily test the
breadth of external validity of key findings as well as to advance understanding of these different populations.
 We will leverage NICHD's long-term investment in the Chitwan Valley Family Study (CVFS) in Nepal to
achieve this high priority objective. We will implement a series of educational, research tool construction, and
continuing education activities designed to significantly increase the quality and quantity of international
population science. The CVFS is an excellent international population science training resource, featuring a
24-year whole-family panel study with many important characteristics. These include dynamic measures of
child health, contraceptive use, mental health, and community context with both DNA and migrant interviews
for all family members. We will use this special resource to launch a new multimedia educational program
focused on international population science. The program will feature an integrated set of topical short courses,
web-based access to those courses, education on high priority longitudinal research tools, innovative “always
available” learning tools, and archived tutorials. The importance of international population research continues
to grow as interconnections across populations increase. Dynamics of migration, commerce, digital media use,
and violent conflict all increase the need for thorough scientific understanding of population dynamics in far-
away settings. Our program will supply training in international population research skills to enable higher
quality and quantity of research. The tools can be applied to advance science using repeated cross-sectional
surveys, surveillance data, longitudinal panel studies, or random control trial studies. Our educational program
will feature illustrations wit...

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10400067
- **Project number:** 5R25HD101358-03
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR
- **Principal Investigator:** William G. Axinn
- **Activity code:** R25 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2022
- **Award amount:** $155,827
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2020-07-01 → 2025-04-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10400067

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10400067, Interdisciplinary Research Training Program for International Population Science (5R25HD101358-03). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10400067. Licensed CC0.

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