Deep South Resource Center for Minority Aging Research (RCMAR)

项目总结/摘要 南方资源中心少数民族老龄化研究（RCMAR）的目的是增加这两个 有能力进行与少数群体有关的独立研究的调查员的人数和多样性 老龄化和健康差距。我们是一个以研究为基础的，指导四个学术机构的合作伙伴关系： 位于伯明翰的亚拉巴马大学、亚拉巴马大学、莫尔豪斯医学院和 塔斯基吉大学合作招募少数民族调查人员，提供老龄化和健康教育 差异研究，通过协作指导职业发展，并保持进展， 成功的、独立的研究生涯。深南RCMAR的研究重点是减少 在南方腹地，该地区黑人/非裔美国人（B/AA）和白色老年人之间的健康差异 在大多数老年B/AA人居住的国家，健康差距特别持久。 我们关注的健康问题，特别是在我们地区的老年B/AA中普遍存在的问题， 在农村和城市环境中都得到了确认。我们的具体目标是：（1）识别，参与， 指导在学术界代表性不足的优秀教师，他们致力于学术事业， 老龄化和健康差异研究;（2）提供高质量的研究教育和个性化的职业生涯 发展支持;（3）支持创新，高影响力的试点项目，将推动科学的发展， 少数民族老龄化和健康差距;（4）提供专业知识和资源， 社区在他们感兴趣的领域，并在招聘和保留老年B/AA的研究;（5） 为研究设计、文化敏感性测量、数据分析提供专业知识和资源， 访问数据库进行二次分析;以及（6）向科学、专业和非专业受众传播 通过改善少数群体健康状况来减少健康差距的研究成果， 特别是对于较老的B/AA。我们建议继续和加强在此期间建立的核心 前三个资助周期：研究教育部分，领导和行政核心， 分析核心，社区联络和招募核心。未来五年，我们将为 至少15个试点项目;通过我们的跨学科健康差异研究提供研究教育 协助RCMAR科学家获得职业发展或独立研究 赠款。随着深南RCMAR的更新，我们还提出了每个核心的创新，以提高我们的 在招募少数民族调查人员、提供老龄化和健康教育方面的总体计划效率 差异研究，通过协作指导职业发展，并维持他们的 取得成功，独立的研究生涯。通过这些方式，RCMAR将提高规模， 科学劳动力的多样性，推进少数民族老龄化和深层健康差异的科学 南

Project Summary/Abstract The Deep South Resource Center for Minority Aging Research (RCMAR) is designed to increase both the number and diversity of investigators with the capacity to conduct independent research related to minority aging and health disparities. We are a research-based, mentoring partnership of four academic institutions: The University of Alabama at Birmingham, The University of Alabama, Morehouse School of Medicine, and Tuskegee University working together to recruit minority investigators, provide education in aging and health disparities research, guide career development through collaborative mentoring, and sustain progress to successful, independent research careers. The research focus of the Deep South RCMAR is on reducing health disparities between Black/African American (B/AA) and White older adults in the Deep South, the region of the country where the majority of older B/AAs live and health disparities have been particularly persistent. We focus on health problems particularly prevalent among older B/AAs in our region and for which disparities have been identified in both rural and urban settings. Our specific aims are to: (1) identify, engage, and mentor outstanding faculty under-represented in academia who are committed to academic careers in aging and health disparities research; (2) provide high quality research education and individualized career development support; (3) support innovative, high impact pilot projects that will advance the science of minority aging and health disparities; (4) provide expertise and resources for working collaboratively with communities in areas of interest to them and in the recruitment and retention of older B/AAs in research; (5) provide expertise and resources for study design, culturally sensitive measurement, data analysis, and access to databases for secondary analysis; and (6) disseminate to scientific, professional and lay audiences research results addressing the reduction of health disparities through the improvement of minority health, particularly for older B/AAs. We propose continuation and enhancements of the cores established during the first three funding cycles: the Research Education Component, the Leadership and Administrative Core, the Analysis Core, and the Community Liaison and Recruitment Core. Over the next five years, we will fund at least 15 pilot projects; provide research education through our inter-disciplinary Health Disparities Research Education Program; and assist RCMAR Scientists to obtain career development or independent research grants. With renewal of the Deep South RCMAR, we also propose innovations in each core to enhance our overall program effectiveness in recruiting minority investigators, providing education in aging and heath disparities research, guiding career development through collaborative mentoring, and sustaining their progress to successful, independent research careers. In these ways, the RCMAR will enhance the size and diversity of the scientific workforce advancing the science of minority aging and health disparities in the Deep South.