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项目摘要/摘要--行政核心 加州大学旧金山分校多元社区老龄化研究中心(CADC) (加州大学旧金山分校)自1997年以来一直得到资助。我们拥有完善的综合性、跨学科的 对少数民族老龄化研究具有广泛影响的研究和指导计划。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来改善这些差距 差距。CADC的资产包括强大的少数派和科学领导力，以及对 在老年人中实现健康公平。CADC是加州大学旧金山分校一个吸引教师和博士后的磁铁中心 进行健康差异研究的研究员。CADC位于旧金山湾区，拥有 在地理上接触到美国所有主要的种族/民族以及一系列不同的经济和 老年人的性少数群体和性别少数群体。我们在城市和农村都有关系和学习 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 差异人口，我们利用它来丰富我们的CADC的研究机会和指导 科学家(代表不足的少数族裔老龄化和健康差距调查人员)。在接下来的5年里，我们 CADC管理核心(AC)将继续提供智力领导并管理我们强大的 针对代表不足的调查人员的指导计划侧重于我们的研究主题。咨询委员会的目标 1)协调我们的研究教育部分(REC)、分析核心(ANC)和 社区联络和招募核心(CLRC)，内部和外部与其他RCMAR和 RCMAR协调中心；2)进行严格的招聘、审查和遴选程序，授予3-4名 每年向以中心研究主题为重点的CADC科学家提供试验性研究补助金；3)维护一个系统 用于通过授予独立研究资金(例如，NIH R01或K奖)来跟踪先导研究调查人员 并与RCMAR协调中心一起完成半年度报告；4)在内部 由CADC所有教职员工组成的执行委员会、外部咨询委员会(由少数人组成 年迈的科学专家丽莎·巴恩斯博士、丽莎·库珀医学博士和肯尼斯·科文斯基医学博士)和一个社区 咨询委员会将保持CADC的结构、流程和文化，以便有效地指导 CADC科学家；5)确保至少有三名CADC教员和两名CADC科学家参加 参加RCMAR年度会议的代表；以及6)扩大联合研究和指导活动 CADC教职员工和科学家以及其他NIA赞助的中心、项目和老龄化相关项目之间的合作 研究人员，例如加州大学旧金山分校的记忆和衰老中心(NIA资助的阿尔茨海默病研究中心) 以及加州大学旧金山分校的胡椒中心。AC将确保整合我们的核心，以提供强大的指导 针对任职人数不足的初级调查人员的方案，他们将加强与老龄化有关的劳动力的多样性 并帮助满足我们老龄化和日益多样化的老年人口在未来几年的需求。

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.