Michigan Center for Urban African American Aging Research

密歇根城市非裔美国人老龄化研究中心

• 批准号: 9000877
• 负责人: JAMES SIDNEY JACKSON
• 金额: $ 2.37万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR
• 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 2017-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9000877
• 关键词: Address; African American; Aging; Applications Grants; Area; Award; Behavioral; Color; Communities; Community Outreach; Disease; Elderly; Faculty; Funding; Goals; Grant; Health; Health Promotion; Health Services; Health Status; Knowledge; Life Cycle Stages; Manuscripts; Mentors; Methods; Michigan; Minority; Mission; Modeling; Outcome; Participant; Plant Roots; Population; Publications; Publishing; Race; Recruitment Activity; Registries; Reporting; Research; Research Methodology; Research Personnel; Research Subjects; Research Training; Respondent; Scientist; Teacher Professional Development; Training; Trust; Twin Multiple Birth; United States National Institutes of Health; Work; base; experience; health disparity; improved; innovation; mortality; novel strategies; racial and ethnic; ranpirnase; social; web site

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The specific aims represent a systematic continuation of prior RCMAR efforts. Specifically the mission of the Michigan Center for Urban African American Aging Research (MCUAAAR) is to generate knowledge that will reduce health disparities and improve health. To fulfill this mission, MCUAAAR pursues twin goals of: (1) increasing the number of highly trained African American aging researchers; and, (2) including more elderly African American subjects in health disparities research. To achieve these two goals, the continuation application proposes to explore three specific aims: 1) To recruit and mentor 15 new junior scholars into the area of aging and health research; 2) To increase important research on health and health promotion among Older Adults of ethnic and racial populations, especially African Americans; and, 3) To extend research on the recruitment and retention of African American elders in health by utilizing the large MCUAAAR Participant Registry. Among other things, Aims 1 and 2 are motivated by the NIH-funded study (Ginther et al, 2011), which reported that grant applications from black scientists were 10 percentage points less likely to win grants than were applications from white investigators; in practical terms, this gap means that whites are about twice as likely as blacks to win approval. Aim 3 recognizes that a sophisticated social/behavioral approach is required to understand the growing mortality, disease and health disparities among older African Americans. Throughout their training, MCUAAAR scholars will have: unlimited access to the Participant Registry, a research pool of currently 1685 willing minority respondents built over nearly a decade following a Community Based Participatory Model. The significance of this project is directly rooted in three major factors: overcoming critical barriers, improving scientific knowledge, and advancing the field of aging research. The project innovativeness of MCUAAAR resides in three distinctive features: shifts in current paradigms, novel approaches, and refined concepts.

描述(由申请者提供)：具体目标代表了RCMAR先前努力的系统性延续。具体地说，密歇根州城市非裔美国人老龄化研究中心(MCUAAAR)的使命是产生将减少健康差距和改善健康的知识。为了完成这一使命，MCUAAAR追求两个目标：(1)增加训练有素的非裔美国人老龄化研究人员的数量；(2)将更多的老年非裔美国人纳入健康差距研究。为了实现这两个目标，延续申请建议探索三个具体目标：1)招募和指导15名新的初级学者进入老龄化和健康研究领域；2)在族裔和种族人口的老年人，特别是非洲裔美国人中，增加关于促进健康和健康的重要研究；以及3)通过利用大型MCUAAAR参与者登记处，扩大关于招募和保留非洲裔美国老年人健康方面的研究。除其他外，目标1和目标2的动机是NIH资助的研究(Ginther等人，2011年)，该研究报告称，黑人科学家的拨款申请获得拨款的可能性比白人调查人员的申请低10个百分点；实际上，这一差距意味着白人获得批准的可能性大约是黑人的两倍。AIM 3认识到，需要一种复杂的社会/行为方法来了解老年非裔美国人日益增长的死亡率、疾病和健康差距。在整个培训过程中，MCUAAAR学者将可以：无限制地进入参与者登记，这是一个研究池，目前有1685名自愿的少数族裔受访者，是在基于社区的参与模式之后近十年建立起来的。这个项目的意义直接植根于三大因素：克服关键障碍，提高科学知识，推进老龄化研究领域。MCUAAAR项目的创新性在于三个鲜明的特点：当前范式的转变、新颖的方法和精致的概念。