Deep South Resource Center for Minority Aging Research (RCMAR)

项目概要/摘要 南方资源中心少数民族老龄化研究（RCMAR）的目的是增加这两个 有能力进行与少数群体有关的独立研究的调查员的人数和多样性 老龄化和健康差距。我们是一个以研究为基础的，指导四个学术机构的合作伙伴关系： 亚拉巴马大学伯明翰分校、莫尔豪斯医学院、塔斯基吉大学和 亚拉巴马大学，共同努力招募少数民族调查人员，提供老龄化和健康教育 差异研究，通过协作指导职业发展，并保持进展， 成功的、独立的研究生涯。深南RCMAR的研究重点是减少 在美国南部腹地，非洲裔美国人（AA）和白色老年人之间的健康差异 在大多数老年人居住的国家，健康差距特别持久。我们专注 健康问题，特别是在我们地区的老年人中普遍存在的问题， 在农村和城市环境中发现。我们的具体目标是：（1）识别，参与和指导 杰出的教师在学术界谁是致力于老龄化的学术生涯， 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 发展支持;（3）支持创新，高影响力的试点项目，将推动科学的发展， 少数民族老龄化和健康差距;（4）提供专业知识和资源， 社区在他们感兴趣的领域，并在招聘和保留老AA的研究;（5） 为研究设计、文化敏感性测量、数据分析提供专业知识和资源， 访问数据库进行二次分析;以及（6）向科学、专业和非专业受众传播 通过改善少数群体健康状况来减少健康差距的研究成果， 特别是对于老年人。我们建议继续和加强在2000年期间建立的核心， 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。来 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 或独立研究赠款。随着深南RCMAR的更新，我们还提出了创新， 每个核心，以提高我们的整体计划的有效性，在招聘少数民族调查员，提供 老龄化和健康差距研究教育，通过合作指导职业发展 指导，并维持他们的进步，成功的，独立的研究事业。通过这些方式， RCMAR将提高科学劳动力的规模和多样性，推进少数民族老龄化科学 以及南方腹地的健康差距。

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.