Michigan Center for Urban African American Aging Research

总体摘要 密歇根城市非裔美国人老龄化研究中心（MCUAAAR）是一个成熟的社会研究机构。 和少数民族老龄化研究计划资源中心的行为科学中心， 建议通过指导初级教师（其中大多数将是 非裔美国人），并侧重于非裔美国人的生命历程健康研究。密歇根 州立大学（MSU）将正式加入密歇根大学（UM）和韦恩州立大学 大学（WSU）组成新的MCUAAAR。我们的三个具体目标包括：1）增加 通过将密歇根州立大学作为MCUAAAR的全面合作伙伴来达到和覆盖范围; 2)招聘和指导15名新的初级研究人员;以及，3）增加关于 不同民族和种族人口的老年人的生命历程经历，特别是 非裔美国人本应用程序中提出了四个核心：管理、分析和REC 和CLRC。我们将采用一种综合的方法来指导，需要一套结构化的 （a）将在2010年1月1日至2011年6月30日期间确定正式目标， 开始试点，并在每月的MCUAAAR会议上进行审查;（B）根据设定的目标， 将组建一个指导小组，协助研究、传播研究结果， （c）一套科学写作、计量和翻译方面的培训活动， 每年将建立以社区为基础的研究伙伴关系;（d）为期六个月的正式 将进行评估，并与MCUAAAR教师分享;（e）在第二次 每年，将指派一名正在进行的MCUAAAR导师协助出版和赠款 为参加会议的初级研究人员提供准备和支助。也会有 在该计划中提供长期指导和培训的机会。我们继续 由NIH资助的一系列研究（例如，Ginther等人，2011年），其中应用 黑人科学家获得资助的可能性要低10个百分点 而不是来自白色调查员的申请;实际上，这一差距意味着白色 申请人获得批准和资助的可能性是黑人的两倍。RCMAR计划 对于帮助RCMAR研究人员消除这一差距来说非常重要，我们 继续关注消除非洲裔美国研究人员之间差距的重要性 特别是。我们的动机还在于慢性病和 老年非裔美国人的死亡率。

Overall Abstract The Michigan Center for Urban African American Aging Research (MCUAAAR), a mature social and behavioral science center of the Resource Center for Minority Aging Research program, proposes to expand its reach and impact by mentoring junior faculty (most of whom will be African American) and by focusing on African American Life-course health research. Michigan State University (MSU) will formally join the University of Michigan (UM) and Wayne State University (WSU) to form the new MCUAAAR. Our three specific aims include: 1) Increase reach and coverage by including Michigan State University as a full partner in the MCUAAAR; 2) Recruit and mentor 15 new junior researchers; and, 3) Increase important research on the life-course experiences of older adults of diverse ethnic and racial populations, especially African Americans. Four cores are proposed in this application; Administrative, Analytic, REC and CLRC. We will employ an integrative approach to mentoring, entailing a structured set of activities and training across the pilot funding period: (a) Formal goals will be set at the beginning of the pilot and reviewed in monthly MCUAAAR meetings; (b) Based on the goals set, a mentoring team will be assembled to assist with research, dissemination of findings, and research translation; (c) A set of training activities in scientific writing, measurement, and community-based research partnerships will be conducted each year; (d) A formal six-month evaluation will be conducted and shared with the MCUAAAR faculty; and, (e) During the second year, an ongoing MCUAAAR mentor will be assigned to assist with publications and grant preparation and provide support to junior researchers attending conferences. There will also be opportunities for longer-term mentoring and training in the program. We continue to be motivated by an NIH-funded series of studies (e.g., Ginther et al., 2011) in which applications from black scientists were shown to be 10 percentage points less likely to obtain grant awards than applications from white investigators; in practical terms, this gap means that white applicants are about twice as likely as blacks to be approved and funded. The RCMAR program has been important in helping to eliminate this gap for RCMAR researchers overall, and we continue to focus on the importance of abolishing the disparity for African American researchers in particular. We are also motivated by the continuing disparities in chronic disease and mortality among older African Americans.