Admin Core

项目概要/摘要-行政核心 加州大学旧金山弗朗西斯科的RCMAR多元社区老龄化中心 （UCSF）自1997年以来一直得到资助。我们有完善的综合性，跨学科 研究和指导计划，对少数民族老龄化研究产生广泛影响。CADC的研究主题 重点是了解健康差距的机制，并制定干预措施，以改善这些机制。 差距。CADC的资产包括强大的少数民族和科学领导力，以及对 实现老年人的健康公平。CADC是加州大学旧金山分校的一个吸引教师和博士后的中心 研究员进行健康差距研究。CADC位于旧金山弗朗西斯科湾区， 地理上可以接触到美国的每一个主要种族/族裔群体，以及一系列经济上多样化的群体， 老年人的性和性别少数群体。我们在城市和农村都有关系和研究 社区，以及由100多个社区和医疗保健合作伙伴组成的广泛网络，为老年人提供服务 差异人群，我们利用这些人群来丰富我们CADC的研究机会和指导 科学家（代表性不足的少数民族老龄化和健康差距调查员）。在接下来的五年里，我们 CADC行政核心（AC）将继续提供知识领导，并管理我们强大的 为代表性不足的研究人员提供的指导计划侧重于我们的研究主题。AC的目标 1）协调我们的研究教育组件（REC），分析核心（AnC）的活动， 社区联络和招聘核心（CLRC）内部，以及与其他RCMAR和 RCMAR协调中心; 2）进行严格的招聘，审查和选拔过程，以奖励3-4 每年向CADC科学家提供试点研究赠款，重点关注中心的研究主题; 3）维持一个系统 用于通过授予独立研究资金来跟踪试点研究调查者（例如，NIH R 01或K奖） 并与RCMAR协调中心完成半年报告; 4）在内部指导下， 执行委员会由所有CADC学院组成，外部咨询委员会（由少数 老年科学专家丽莎巴恩斯，博士，丽莎库珀，医学博士，和肯尼斯Covinsky，医学博士），和一个社区 咨询委员会，AC将维持CADC的结构、流程和文化，以有效地指导 CADC科学家; 5）确保至少有三名CADC教员和两名CADC科学家参与 代表参加年度RCMAR会议;以及6）扩大联合研究和指导活动 CADC教师和科学家与其他NIA赞助的中心，项目和与衰老相关的 研究人员，例如，UCSF记忆与衰老中心（NIA资助的阿尔茨海默病研究中心） 加州大学旧金山分校胡椒中心AC将确保我们的核心整合，以提供强大的指导 为代表性不足的初级调查人员制定的计划，将增强与老龄化相关的劳动力的多样性 并在未来几年帮助满足我们老龄化和日益多样化的老年人口的需求。

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT – ADMINISTRATIVE CORE The RCMAR Center for Aging in Diverse Communities (CADC) at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) has been funded continuously since 1997. We have well-established comprehensive, interdisciplinary program of research and mentoring with broad impact on minority aging research. CADC's research theme focuses on understanding mechanisms of health disparities and developing interventions to improve those disparities. CADC's assets include strong minority and scientific leadership and a passionate commitment to achieving health equity among older adults. CADC is a magnet center at UCSF for faculty and post-doctoral fellows conducting health disparities research. Located in the San Francisco Bay Area, CADC has geographical access to every major racial/ethnic group in the U.S. and a range of economically diverse and sexual and gender minority populations of older adults. We have relationships and studies in urban and rural communities, and an extensive network of over 100 community and health care partners serving older adult disparity populations, which we utilize to enrich the research opportunities and mentoring of our CADC Scientists (underrepresented minority aging and health disparities investigators). For the next 5 years, our CADC Administrative Core (AC) will continue to provide intellectual leadership and manage our robust mentoring program for underrepresented investigators focused on our research theme. The aims of the AC are to 1) coordinate the activities of our Research Education Component (REC), Analysis Core (AnC), and Community Liaison and Recruitment Core (CLRC) internally, and externally with other RCMARs and the RCMAR Coordinating Center; 2) conduct a rigorous recruitment, review and selection process to award 3-4 pilot study grants per year to CADC Scientists focused on the Center's research theme; 3) maintain a system for tracking pilot study investigators through award of independent research funding (e.g., NIH R01 or K award) and complete a semi-annual report with the RCMAR Coordinating Center; 4) with guidance from an internal Executive Committee composed of all CADC Faculty, an External Advisory Committee (composed of minority aging scientific experts Lisa Barnes, PhD, Lisa Cooper, MD, and Kenneth Covinsky, MD), and a Community Advisory Board, the AC will maintain the structure, processes, and culture of the CADC to effectively mentor CADC Scientists; 5) ensure the participation of at least three CADC Faculty and two CADC Scientist representatives at the annual RCMAR meetings; and 6) expand joint research and mentoring activities between CADC Faculty and Scientists and other NIA-sponsored Centers, programs, and aging-related researchers, e.g., the UCSF Memory and Aging Center (NIA-funded Alzheimer's Disease Research Center) and the UCSF Pepper Center. The AC will ensure integration of our cores to provide a robust, mentoring program for underrepresented junior investigators who will enhance the diversity of the aging-related workforce and help meet the needs of our aging and increasingly diverse older adult population for years to come.