Risk and Resilience to Alzheimer’s Disease in African Americans

项目摘要/摘要 关于非洲阿尔茨海默病风险和恢复力的全国会议 美国人将于6月23日在新泽西州纽瓦克市的罗格斯大学举行。 24年，2022年。尽管非裔美国人患上与年龄相关的认知能力下降的风险较高， 失忆--与白人相比，阿尔茨海默病(AD)的患病率是白人的两倍 美国人-我们对这种健康差距的原因还不够了解，也不知道如何 最好集中未来的干预努力，以补救这一健康危机。这一天半 会议将介绍有关生物、行为、社会和环境的最新数据 对老年非裔美国人在衰老、脑健康和AD方面的个体差异的影响， 衔接相关的、纵向的和干预的方法。三个相关的具体 会议的目的是：(1)促进跨学科合作与交流 在研究非裔美国人阿尔茨海默病风险和弹性的研究人员中；(2)支持 该领域的实习生和早期职业研究人员；以及(3)促进更广泛的科学、临床和 公众对影响非裔美国人阿尔茨海默病风险和复原力的因素的认识。 最后，本次会议将在四个方面具有创新性：(1)将侧重于跨学科 非裔美国人应对AD的风险和复原力的方法；(2)我们整合了非裔美国人 参与计划的社区领袖和研究参与者；(3)计划的嘉宾编辑 《阿尔茨海默病杂志》的卷以及演讲者的投稿将确保 广泛的传播和影响；(4)由于罗格斯-纽瓦克大学是#年排名第一的城市公立大学 《美国新闻与世界报道》的种族多样性，这是一家获得联邦资格的少数民族服务机构， 和国立卫生研究院G-Rise少数民族研究生培训中心，这次会议将加强培训 以及来自代表性不足的本科生和研究生的职业发展 少数群体。

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT A national conference on Risk and Resilience to Alzheimer’s Disease in African Americans will take place at Rutgers University–Newark, in Newark, New Jersey, on June 23- 24, 2022. Although African Americans are at elevated risk for age-related cognitive decline and memory loss—with double the prevalence of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) compared to white Americans—we do not sufficiently understand the causes of this health disparity, nor how to best focus future interventional efforts to remediate this health crisis. This day-and-a-half conference will present the latest data on biological, behavioral, social, and environmental influences on individual differences in aging, brain health, and AD in older African Americans, bridging correlational, longitudinal, and interventional methodologies. The three related specific aims of the conference are to: (1) Promote cross-disciplinary collaboration and communication among researchers who study risk and resilience to AD in African Americans; (2) Support trainees and early career investigators in this field; and (3) Promote wider scientific, clinical, and public awareness of the factors which affect risk and resilience to AD in African Americans. Finally, this meeting will be innovative in four ways: (1) It will focus on interdisciplinary approaches to risk and resilience to AD in African Americans; (2) We integrate African American community leaders and research participants in the programming; (3) A planned guest-edited volume of the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease with contributions from the speakers will ensure wide dissemination and impact; (4) As Rutgers-Newark is an urban public university rated #1 in Ethnic Diversity by US News & World Report, a federally-qualified Minority-Serving Institution, and a NIH G-RISE minority graduate student training center, this meeting will enhance training and career development for undergraduate and graduate students from under-represented minority groups.