Health of Older Minorities

描述（由申请人提供）：得克萨斯大学医学分支（UTMB）的西利老龄化中心是少数民族健康和老龄化研究的领先中心。自1999年以来，UTMB主办了一个由国家情报局支持的少数民族健康和老龄化博士前和博士后培训项目。在当前的资助周期中，我们申请资助三个博士前和两个博士后职位。我们正在为下一个供资周期提出少数民族老龄化培训计划重点和活动的几项重要变化。展望未来，T32培训计划将专注于UTMB少数民族老龄化研究中两个确定的核心优势领域：西班牙裔和拉丁美洲的健康和老龄化，以及老年人健康结果的差异。这些都是大学致力于创造新的教师职位的大量资源的领域，并在获得同行评审（R01）支持方面取得了重大成功。在与人口健康科学研究生课程（其中大多数博士前学员入学）最近的战略规划过程相一致，我们正在采用修订后的博士前学生教育和培训课程。生物医学科学研究生院和教务长办公室在过去的一年中做出了重大承诺，以提高UTMB的研究生教育和博士后培训和研究的卓越性。这些承诺包括总统的学者计划，以招募优秀的研究生和博士后事务办公室的建立，其中包括有组织的培训和职业发展和指导的机会。我们已经建立了一个正式的结构和相关活动，以加强征聘工作，并促进我们的受训人员在区域和国家一级的安置。我们相信，这些变化将使受训人员在下一代老龄化研究人员中担任领导职务。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Sealy Center on Aging at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) is a leading center for research on minority health and aging. UTMB has hosted an NIA-supported pre-doctoral and postdoctoral training program in minority health and aging since 1999. In the current funding cycle, we request funding for three predoctoral and two postdoctoral positions. We are proposing several important changes in the focus and activities of the minority aging training program for the next funding cycle. Going forward, the T32 training program will focus on two identified core areas of strengths in minority aging research at UTMB: Hispanic and Latin American health and aging, and disparities in health outcomes in older adults. These are areas in which the University has committed substantial resources toward creating new faculty positions and has demonstrated significant success in obtaining peer-reviewed (R01) support. In concert with the recent strategic planning process for the graduate program in Population Health Sciences (where most pre-doctoral trainees are enrolled), we are adopting a revised curriculum for pre-doctoral student education and training. The Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and Provost's Office have made significant commitments in the past year to enhancing the excellence of graduate education and postdoctoral training and research at UTMB. These commitments include the President's Scholars Program to recruit outstanding graduate students and the establishment of an Office of Postdoctoral Affairs that includes organized training and opportunities in career development and mentoring. We have developed a formal structure and related activities to enhance recruitment and facilitate the placement of our trainees regionally and nationally. We believe that these changes will position trainees for leadership positions among the next generation of aging researchers.