New Faculty Recruitment for Interdisciplinary Research on Aging

描述（由申请人提供）：这份提交给国家老龄研究所的P30提案的总体目标是增强芝加哥大学对老年人的社会环境（无论是个人社会经济和健康因素，家庭还是邻里/社区因素）和卫生保健系统如何相互作用以产生老年人健康结果的研究能力。我们选择这个重点是因为我们相信在这个问题上，这些互动对美国有很多重要的问题，因为我们在老龄化方面的资深教师导师非常适合指导初级教师解决这些问题。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The overall aim of this P30 proposal to the National Institute of Aging is to enhance the capability of the University of Chicago to perform research on how the social context of older persons - whether personal socioeconomic and health factors, family, or neighborhood/community factors - and the health care system interact to produce health outcomes for older persons. We have chosen this focus because we believe these are many important questions for the United States at this concern these interactions, and because our senior faculty mentors in aging are extremely well situated to mentor junior faculty to address these questions. To accomplish this overall aim, we propose the following specific aims: 1. To establish a Core Center for interdisciplinary research within the Center for Health and the Social Sciences (CHeSS) examining how social context and the health care system interact to affect health care outcomes for older persons. 2. To recruit four new faculty members at the assistant professor level, using initial salary support and startup packages both to enable these recruitments and to attract exceptionally strong junior faculty. 3. To use mentoring and seed grant resources to promote professional development of these junior faculty members. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Over the next decades, the aging of the U.S. population will present challenges for the health care system. Many of these challenges will be strongly influenced by social factors relevant to older persons. The proposed project will enhance the University's capacity for transdisciplinary research on aging that examines how social context and the health care system interact to produce health outcomes for older persons.