Get Experience in Aging Research Undergraduate Program (GEAR UP)

项目摘要/摘要 少数群体在老龄化研究相关职业中的代表性仍然不足，包括人口学和 老龄化经济学、健康经济学和医疗保健经济学。在卫生服务研究(HSR)中，研究 卫生保健的组织、融资和提供，并提供对解决 在医疗质量、可获得性、可负担性和公平性等问题上，黑人和西班牙裔仅占6.9%， 分别占高铁劳动力的3.7%。[1]在经济方面，经济已经停滞了近20年 授予妇女和代表性不足的少数群体的学位、学士或博士学位的数量，尽管 其他STEM领域的改进。[2]然而，代表不足的研究人员带来了基本的不同观点 而且，通常是在理解社会、经济、政治和环境方面的个人经历 卫生和保健方面种族和族裔差异的决定因素。 老龄化中的管道计划对于在劳动力中提供更多多样性以及发展 对与种族和民族健康有关的问题采取创造性、文化上适当和敏感的解决办法 老龄化人口的差距。我们提出了一个新的流水线计划，在老龄化研究中获得经验 本科课程(Gear Up)，以培养寻求人才的弱势群体 研究职业，重点是人口统计学和老龄化、健康和医疗保健的经济学，以及 特别是不同社区的健康差距。建立在宾夕法尼亚人口老龄化创新的基础上 和研究中心(PARC)和伦纳德·戴维斯卫生经济研究所(LDI)的基础设施 研究、合作和本科生培训，我们的目标是增强研究队伍的多样性 通过提供令人兴奋的指导性研究，在老龄化、健康和医疗保健的人口学和经济学领域 为本科生提供连续两个暑期的体验，并在整个 学年。这项为期15个月的计划为学生提供了在以下方面成长和提高技能的机会 他们的工具箱，丰富他们与导师和同事的关系，并更深入地参与和 致力于衰老研究。该计划的目标是激励本科生学者致力于 终身致力于通过研究解决社会问题。

Project Summary/Abstract Minorities remain underrepresented in aging-research-related professions, including demography and economics of aging, health, and health care. In health services research (HSR), which studies the organization, financing, and delivery of health care and provides an evidence base that is central to addressing issues of care quality, access, affordability, and equity, Blacks and Hispanics accounting for only 6.9% and 3.7%, respectively, of the HSR workforce.[1] In economics there has been an almost 20-year stagnation in the number of degrees, Bachelors or Doctorate, awarded to women and underrepresented minorities, despite improvements in other STEM fields.[2] Yet underrepresented researchers bring essential diverse perspectives and, often, personal experiences to bear in understanding the social, economic, political, and environmental determinants of racial and ethnic disparities in health and health care. Pipeline programs in aging are critical to providing more diversity in the workforce as well as to developing creative, culturally appropriate and sensitive solutions to issues associated with racial and ethnic health disparities in aging populations. We propose a new pipeline program, Get Experience in Aging Research Undergraduate Program (GEAR UP), in order to develop talented underrepresented minorities seeking research careers with a focus in the demography and economics of aging, health, and health care, and particularly health disparities in diverse communities. Building on the innovations in Penn’s Population Aging and Research Center (PARC) and the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics’ (LDI’s) infrastructure for research, collaboration, and undergraduate training, we aim to enhance the diversity of the research workforce in the demography and economics of aging, health, and health care by providing exciting mentored research experiences to undergraduates for two consecutive summers, supplemented with programming throughout the academic year. This 15-month program provides students an opportunity to grow and enhance the skills in their toolbox, enrich their relationships with mentors and colleagues, and get more deeply involved and committed to aging research. The goal of this program is to motivate undergraduate scholars to dedicate their lives to addressing societal problems through research.