Michigan Center for Urban African American Aging Research

总体摘要 密歇根城市非裔美国人老龄化研究中心(MCUAAAR)，一个成熟的社会团体 和少数民族老龄化研究项目资源中心的行为科学中心， 建议通过指导初级教员(他们中的大多数将是 非洲裔美国人)，并专注于非洲裔美国人的终生健康研究。密西根 密歇根州立大学(MSU)将正式加入密歇根大学(UM)和韦恩州立大学 大学(WSU)组成新的MCUAAAR。我们的三个具体目标包括：1)增加 将密歇根州立大学列为MCUAAAR的正式合作伙伴，以扩大覆盖范围； 2)招聘和指导15名新的初级研究人员；以及3)增加对 不同族裔和种族人口的老年人的人生经历，特别是 非裔美国人。此应用程序中建议使用四个核心：管理、分析、REC 和CLRC。我们将采用一种综合的方法进行指导，需要一套结构化的 整个试点筹资期间的活动和培训：(A)将在 开始试点并在每月的MCUAAAR会议上进行审查；(B)根据设定的目标， 将组建一个指导小组，协助研究、研究成果的传播，以及 研究翻译；(C)一套科学写作、测量和培训活动 每年将建立以社区为基础的研究伙伴关系；(D)正式六个月 将进行评估并与MCUAAAR教职员工分享；和，(E)在第二次 年，将指派一名持续的MCUAAAR导师协助出版和赠款 为参加会议的初级研究人员提供准备和支持。还将有 在该计划中获得长期指导和培训的机会。我们将继续成为 由NIH资助的一系列研究(例如，Ginther等人，2011)推动的，其中应用 来自黑人科学家的研究表明，获得资助的可能性降低了10个百分点 来自白人调查人员的申请；实际上，这种差距意味着白人 申请者获得批准和资助的可能性大约是黑人的两倍。RCMAR计划 在帮助RCMAR研究人员总体上消除这一差距方面发挥了重要作用，我们 继续关注消除非洲裔美国人研究人员差距的重要性 尤其是。我们的动机也是慢性疾病和 老年非裔美国人的死亡率。

Overall Abstract The Michigan Center for Urban African American Aging Research (MCUAAAR), a mature social and behavioral science center of the Resource Center for Minority Aging Research program, proposes to expand its reach and impact by mentoring junior faculty (most of whom will be African American) and by focusing on African American Life-course health research. Michigan State University (MSU) will formally join the University of Michigan (UM) and Wayne State University (WSU) to form the new MCUAAAR. Our three specific aims include: 1) Increase reach and coverage by including Michigan State University as a full partner in the MCUAAAR; 2) Recruit and mentor 15 new junior researchers; and, 3) Increase important research on the life-course experiences of older adults of diverse ethnic and racial populations, especially African Americans. Four cores are proposed in this application; Administrative, Analytic, REC and CLRC. We will employ an integrative approach to mentoring, entailing a structured set of activities and training across the pilot funding period: (a) Formal goals will be set at the beginning of the pilot and reviewed in monthly MCUAAAR meetings; (b) Based on the goals set, a mentoring team will be assembled to assist with research, dissemination of findings, and research translation; (c) A set of training activities in scientific writing, measurement, and community-based research partnerships will be conducted each year; (d) A formal six-month evaluation will be conducted and shared with the MCUAAAR faculty; and, (e) During the second year, an ongoing MCUAAAR mentor will be assigned to assist with publications and grant preparation and provide support to junior researchers attending conferences. There will also be opportunities for longer-term mentoring and training in the program. We continue to be motivated by an NIH-funded series of studies (e.g., Ginther et al., 2011) in which applications from black scientists were shown to be 10 percentage points less likely to obtain grant awards than applications from white investigators; in practical terms, this gap means that white applicants are about twice as likely as blacks to be approved and funded. The RCMAR program has been important in helping to eliminate this gap for RCMAR researchers overall, and we continue to focus on the importance of abolishing the disparity for African American researchers in particular. We are also motivated by the continuing disparities in chronic disease and mortality among older African Americans.