INVESTIGATOR DEVELOPMENT CORE

CADC的研究人员发展核心将继续吸引少数民族学员，并成功地 培养对流行病学，社会，行为和 少数民族健康老龄化的政策问题。研究者发展核心 CADC将有三个组成部分。首先，我们会资助初级少数族裔调查员进行试验研究， 调查非洲裔美国人、拉丁裔和亚裔美国人的老龄化问题。这些试点研究 将由初级教师或博士后研究员级别的少数民族研究人员领导或共同领导，并监督 由CADC核心教师以及加州大学旧金山分校的附属老龄化研究人员进行。第二，调查员 发展核心将创建一个计划，向所有可能感兴趣的人传播研究信息。 包括社区组织、卫生保健专业人员和受训人员在内的受众，以及 非裔美国人、拉丁裔和亚裔美国人社区的领导人。第三，我们将正式化， 通过让该计划的毕业生参与研究，加强CADC内的持续指导活动 以及指导研究员和经验不足的教员。该核心的具体目标是： （A）维持具有少数群体健康和老龄化专门知识的研究人员网络，并至少选择 每年将资助三项研究，用于试点工作，重点是健康老龄化的计划主题， UCSF和其他地方机构。 B）协助和指导通过CADC资助的经验较少的少数民族调查人员进行 他们的试点研究，并确定适当的下一步职业发展，如提交 根据收集的数据提出独立的研究建议。 C）建立一个计划，传播有关进行技术研究的信息。 研究涉及非裔美国人，亚裔美国人和拉丁美洲老龄人口在加州大学旧金山分校，更大的 老龄化研究人员的学术界和目标社区。

The Investigator Development Core of CADC will continue to attract minority trainees and successfully develop investigators with interest in a research career focused on epidemiological, social, behavioral, and policy issues relevant to minority populations for heaRhy aging. The Investigator Development Core of the CADC will have three components. First, we will fund junior minority investigators to conduct pilot studies to investigate issues of aging in African American, Latino and Asian American populations. These pilot studies will be led or co-led by minority investigators at the junior faculty or post-doctoral fellow level and supervised by the CADC core faculty as well as affiliated aging researchers at UCSF. Second, the Investigator Development Core will create a program to disseminate research information to all potentially interested audiences including community-based organizations, health care professionals and trainees, and opinion leaders within the African American, Latino and Asian American communities. Third, we will formalize and strengthen the Continual Mentoring Activity within CADC by engaging graduates of the program in studies and in mentoring of fellows and less experienced faculty. Specific Aims for this Core are: A) To sustain the network of researchers with expertise in minority health and aging and select a minimum of three studies per year to be funded for pilot work focused on the Program Theme of healthy aging both from UCSF and other local institutions. B) To assist and mentor the less experienced minority investigators funded through CADC in conducting their pilot studies and in identifying the appropriate next step in career development such as submission of an independent research proposal based on the data collected. C) To establish a program for disseminating research information regarding techniques used for conducting research involving African American, Asian American and Latino aging populations within UCSF, the greater academic community of aging researchers and the target communities.