Pilot Core

摘要 试点核心将支持早至中期的研究项目，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，以进行严格的评估。此核心将解决以下问题 共同的障碍，通过确定新的研究领域，为有希望的项目提供试点赠款，支持 这些项目在整个设计和实施过程中，最终创建了一个持续的研究 推进老龄化和经济领域的议程，以改善#年的保健提供和健康结果 中年人和老年人。它将补充和利用联合国系统现有的和正在进行的相关活动 Abdul Latif Jameel北美贫困行动实验室(J-PAL北美)，位于麻省理工学院。这一核心将 关注几个目标。 首先，这一核心将确定开发和测试循证行为干预的新机会 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，旨在 改善老龄化人口的健康，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以下试验提供试点资金 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，并为早期项目提供资源，以筹集额外资金。第三，这个核心将 支持从审查过程到实施过程中资助的试点项目。J-PAL网络中的研究人员AS 以及其他被要求提供他们的专业知识的人将为试点调查人员提供指导和反馈 他们对他们的干预和研究设计进行测试和迭代。最后，这个核心将创造一个持续的 促进老龄领域证据基础的翻译性行为干预发展计划 和行为经济学。通过该核心继续参与从 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 干预措施有助于改善老年人的健康状况。

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.