Native Elder Research Center (NERC)

原住民老年人研究中心 (NERC)

• 批准号: 9978544
• 负责人: SPERO MARTIN MANSON
• 金额: $ 28.02万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1997
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1997-09-30 至 2023-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9978544
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PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT: OVERALL Of the 35,000 research grants awarded in 1998 by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), only 9 (0.0003%) of principal investigators/program directors (PI/PDs) were American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN). Twenty years later, that number has increased 13 fold, to 119 AI/AN PI/PDs, representing 0.003% of the 46,000 NIH research grants funded in 2016. Over this same period of time, the Native Elder Research Center (NERC), 1 of 7 National Institute of Aging-sponsored Resource Centers on Minority Aging Research (NIA; RCMAR), trained 48 AI/AN early-stage investigators, who published 435 papers on AI/AN health, conducted 97 Pilot Studies, and garnered more than $100 million in sponsored research support aimed at improving the health of our nation's Native elders. Our RCMAR scholars figure prominently in the growing presence of AI/ANs among NIH awardees. Clearly, the NIA effort to diversify the scientific workforce, with special emphasis on AI/ANs, has had a substantial and demonstrable return on its investment in the Native Elder Research Center. Our application seeks to renew that support and enable us to continue this legacy, thereby ensuring AI/ANs are even more represented among tomorrow's scientists working at the interface of culture, aging, and health. By virtually any measure, older AI/ANs are at greater risk than their non-Hispanic White counterparts for numerous acute as well as chronic illnesses. They also suffer more frequent comorbidities, have less access to high-quality services, encounter substantially greater delays in treatment, and are slower to seek needed care. Not surprisingly, their life expectancy—68 years for men, 74.3 years for women—is 7-8 years less than non- Hispanic Whites and significantly lower than either Hispanics or African Americans. We only recently have begun to alter the individual-, family-, community-, and system-related factors that contribute to these circumstances. Barriers to advancement in this arena have included the lack of relevant, immediately applicable research, a paucity of scientists working to close these gaps in our knowledge, and the resistance of Native communities to efforts that fail to incorporate their priorities and local systems of care in meaningful ways. The Native Elder Research Center—a 20-year partnership between Spero M. Manson, PhD, at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus and Dedra Buchwald, MD, now at Washington State University—has contributed significantly to addressing these challenges and is well poised to further this impact. It employs an innovative, theory-driven, well-tested, and thoroughly documented approach to diversifying the scientific workforce capable of acquiring and applying the relevant knowledge to ameliorate the health disparities that affect older American Indians and Alaska Natives.

项目摘要/摘要：总体 美国国立卫生研究院（NIH）在1998年授予的35,000份研究补助金中，只有9（0.0003％） 首席调查人员/计划董事（PI/PDS）是美洲/阿拉斯加本地人（AI/AN）。二十年 后来，这个数字增加了13倍，达到119 ai/a pi/pd，代表46,000 NIH的0.003％ 研究赠款于2016年资助。在同一时期，土著老年研究中心（NERC），1个 7国家老化资源研究所的少数民族老龄化研究中心（NIA； RCMAR），受过培训 48 AI/一名早期调查人员发表了435篇有关AI/A AN健康的论文，进行了97个试点研究，并 获得了超过1亿美元的赞助研究支持，旨在改善国家的健康状况 本地长者。我们的RCMAR学者在NIH获奖者中越来越多地存在AI/ANS。 显然，通过特别强调AI/ANS的科学劳动力多样化的NIA努力，已经实现了 并证明其在土著老年研究中心的投资回报率。我们的申请旨在续订 支持并使我们能够继续这一遗产，从而确保AI/ANS在 明天的科学家在文化，衰老和健康的界面工作。 通过任何测量 许多急性和慢性病。他们也遭受更频繁的合并症，较少的访问权限 高质量的服务，遇到更大的治疗延迟，并且寻求所需的护理较慢。 毫不奇怪，他们的预期寿命（男性为68岁，女性为74.3岁）比非非 - 西班牙裔白人，高于西班牙裔或非裔美国人。我们直到最近才开始 改变对这些情况有助的个人，家庭，社区和系统相关因素。 该领域进步的障碍包括缺乏相关的，立即适用的研究， 努力弥合我们知识中这些差距的科学家以及土著社区对 无法以有意义的方式纳入其优先级和本地护理系统的努力。土著长者 研究中心 - 科罗拉多大学Spero M. M. M. M. M. M. M. M. M. M. Anschutz医疗校园和现在在华盛顿州立大学的医学博士Dedra Buchwald贡献了 它采用了创新的，可以解决这些挑战，并有充分的中毒以进一步影响这一影响。 理论驱动的，经过良好的测试且已彻底证明的方法，使科学劳动力多样化 获取和应用相关知识以改善影响年长美国人的健康分布 印第安人和阿拉斯加原住民。