Pilot Core

摘要 试点核心将支持早期到中期的研究项目，以确定，开发，调整和评估 与健康和老龄化相关的创新行为干预。执行伙伴往往缺乏 专业知识，资金和/或学术团队进行严格的评估。本核心将解决这些问题 通过确定新的研究领域，为有前途的项目提供试点赠款， 这些项目贯穿其设计和实施，并最终建立一个持续的研究 推进老龄化和经济学领域的议程，以改善医疗保健服务和健康成果， 中年和老年人。它将补充和利用联合国系统现有和正在进行的相关活动， 阿卜杜勒·贾米尔贫困行动实验室北美（J-PAL北美），位于麻省理工学院。这一核心将 专注于几个目标。 首先，该核心将确定新的机会，以开发和测试循证行为干预措施 与健康和衰老有关。我们将确定创新的、有前途的行为干预措施， 改善老年人的健康，适合低成本随机对照 试验（RCT）。第二，该核心将通过正式的审查程序为下列试验提供试验资金： 与衰老相关的行为干预。该核心将提供小额试点赠款，以促进早期项目 活动，并提供早期项目的资源，以筹集额外的资金。第三，这一核心将 从审查进程到实施，支持受资助的试点项目。J-PAL网络的研究人员， 以及其他被要求提供专业知识的人将为试点调查人员提供指导和反馈， 他们测试和验证他们的干预和研究设计。最后，这个核心将创造一个持续的 翻译行为干预发展计划，以推进老龄化领域的证据基础 和行为经济学。通过该核心继续参与受资助的试点项目， 从第一阶段到第四阶段，我们的目标是在理解哪些行为机制方面取得重大进展， 和干预措施来改善老年人的健康。

ABSTRACT The Pilot Core will support early to mid-stage research projects to identify, develop, adapt, and evaluate innovative behavioral interventions related to health and aging. Implementing partners often lack the expertise, funding, and/or academic team to conduct rigorous evaluations. This Core will address these common barriers by identifying new areas of study, providing pilot grants to promising projects, supporting those projects throughout their design and implementation, and ultimately creating a sustained research agenda to advance the fields of aging and economics to improve health care delivery and health outcomes for midlife and older people. It will complement and leverage the existing and ongoing related activities of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab North America (J-PAL North America), located at MIT. This Core will focus on several aims. First, this core will identify new opportunities to develop and test evidence-informed behavioral interventions related to health and aging. We will identify innovative, promising behavioral interventions geared towards improving the health of an aging population that are suitable candidates for low-cost randomized controlled trials (RCTs). Second, this core will provide pilot funding through a formalized review process for trials of behavioral interventions related to aging. This core will provide small pilot grants to catalyze early project activities and provide an early-stage project the resources to raise additional funding. Third, this core will support funded pilots from the review process through implementation. Researchers in the J-PAL network as well as others called on to provide their expertise will provide mentorship and feedback to pilot investigators as they test and iterate on their intervention and study designs. Finally, this core will create a sustained translational behavioral intervention development program to advance the evidence base in the fields of aging and behavioral economics. Through this Core’s continued involvement with the funded pilot projects from Stage I to Stage IV, we aim to spur significant advancements in understanding which behavioral mechanisms and interventions work to improve the health of older adults.