Deep South Resource Center for Minority Aging Research (RCMAR)

深南少数民族老龄化研究资源中心 (RCMAR)

• 批准号: 10447097
• 负责人: Raegan Winston Durant
• 金额: $ 54.46万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-09-30 至 2023-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10447097
• 关键词: Academia; Address; Affect; African American; African American population; Aging; Alabama; Americas; Area; Audience Research; Behavior; Behavioral; Black race; Characteristics; Color; Communities; Country; County; Data Analyses; Databases; Deep South; Development; Disadvantaged; Discrimination; Economics; Education; Elderly; Faculty; Funding; Goals; Health; Health Disparities Research; Healthcare; Healthcare Systems; Individual; Infrastructure; Institution; Intervention; Knowledge; Leadership; Left; Legal; Measurement; Mentors; Minority; Minority Health Research; Minority Recruitment; Morehouse School of Medicine; Names; Outcome; Pathway interactions; Persons; Pilot Projects; Positioning Attribute; Poverty; Program Effectiveness; Reduce health disparities; Research; Research Design; Research Personnel; Research Project Grants; Resources; Rural; Science; Scientific Advances and Accomplishments; Scientist; Societies; Soil; Stretching; United States; Universities; Work; base; career; career development; deprivation; design; education research; educationally disadvantaged; health disparity; improve minority health; innovation; interest; member; middle age; minority investigator; programs; psychologic; recruit; rural African American; rural setting; secondary analysis; segregation; social; socioeconomic disadvantage; socioeconomics; urban setting

Project Summary/Abstract The Deep South Resource Center for Minority Aging Research (RCMAR) is designed to increase both the number and diversity of investigators with the capacity to conduct independent research related to minority aging and health disparities. We are a research-based, mentoring partnership of four academic institutions: The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Morehouse School of Medicine, Tuskegee University, and The University of Alabama, working together to recruit minority investigators, provide education in aging and health disparities research, guide career development through collaborative mentoring, and sustain progress to successful, independent research careers. The research focus of the Deep South RCMAR is on reducing health disparities between African American (AA) and White older adults in the Deep South, the region of the country where the majority of older AAs live and health disparities have been particularly persistent. We focus on health problems particularly prevalent among older AAs in our region and for which disparities have been identified in both rural and urban settings. Our specific aims are to: (1) identify, engage, and mentor outstanding faculty under-represented in academia who are committed to academic careers in aging and health disparities research; (2) provide high quality research education and individualized career development support; (3) support innovative, high impact pilot projects that will advance the science of minority aging and health disparities; (4) provide expertise and resources for working collaboratively with communities in areas of interest to them and in the recruitment and retention of older AAs in research; (5) provide expertise and resources for study design, culturally sensitive measurement, data analysis, and access to databases for secondary analysis; and (6) disseminate to scientific, professional and lay audiences research results addressing the reduction of health disparities through the improvement of minority health, particularly for older AAs. We propose continuation and enhancements of the cores established during the first two funding cycles: the Research Education Component (formerly the Investigator Development Core), the Administrative Core, the Analysis Core, and the Community Liaison and Recruitment Core. Over the next five years, we will fund at least 15 pilot projects; provide research education through our inter-disciplinary Health Disparities Research Education Program; and assist RCMAR Scientists to obtain career development or independent research grants. With renewal of the Deep South RCMAR, we also propose innovations in each core to enhance our overall program effectiveness in recruiting minority investigators, providing education in aging and heath disparities research, guiding career development through collaborative mentoring, and sustaining their progress to successful, independent research careers. In these ways, the RCMAR will enhance the size and diversity of the scientific workforce advancing the science of minority aging and health disparities in the Deep South.

项目概要/摘要 深南少数族裔老龄化研究资源中心 (RCMAR) 旨在提高 有能力开展与少数群体有关的独立研究的调查人员的数量和多样性 老龄化和健康差异。我们是四个学术机构的研究型指导合作伙伴： 阿拉巴马大学伯明翰分校、莫尔豪斯医学院、塔斯基吉大学和 阿拉巴马大学合作招募少数族裔研究人员，提供老龄化和健康方面的教育 差异研究，通过协作指导指导职业发展，并持续取得进展 成功的、独立的研究生涯。 Deep South RCMAR 的研究重点是减少 非洲裔美国人 (AA) 和白人老年人之间的健康差异 大多数老年 AA 居住在这个国家，健康差距尤其持续存在。我们专注 健康问题在我们地区老年 AA 中尤其普遍，并且存在差异 在农村和城市环境中均已确定。我们的具体目标是：(1) 识别、参与和指导 致力于老龄化和老龄化领域学术事业的杰出教师在学术界代表性不足 健康差异研究； (2)提供高质量的研究教育和个性化的职业生涯 开发支持； (3) 支持创新、高影响力的试点项目，以推动科学发展 少数族裔老龄化和健康差异； (4) 提供与合作伙伴合作的专业知识和资源 在他们感兴趣的领域以及在研究中招募和保留老年 AA 方面的社区； (5) 为研究设计、文化敏感测量、数据分析和提供专业知识和资源 访问数据库进行二次分析； (6) 向科学、专业和非专业受众传播 通过改善少数族裔健康来减少健康差距的研究成果， 特别是对于较老的 AA。我们建议继续和增强在 前两个资助周期：研究教育部分（以前的研究者发展核心）， 行政核心、分析核心、社区联络和招聘核心。超过 未来五年，我们将资助至少15个试点项目；通过我们的跨学科提供研究教育 健康差异研究教育计划；并协助RCMAR科学家获得职业发展 或独立研究资助。随着 Deep South RCMAR 的更新，我们还提出了以下方面的创新： 每个核心都旨在提高我们在招募少数族裔调查员方面的整体计划有效性，提供 老龄化和健康差异研究教育，通过合作指导职业发展 指导并维持他们走向成功的独立研究生涯。通过这些方式， RCMAR 将扩大科学队伍的规模和多样性，推进少数族裔老龄化科学 以及南方腹地的健康差距。