Health of Older Minorities

摘要 该申请寻求5年的资金，以继续目前NIH资助的西班牙裔T32计划 和其他少数民族健康和老龄化在得克萨斯州医学分支（UTMB）的大学，以支持3前- 每年培养博士生和博士后1名。该计划旨在增加和改善 具有相关专业知识的研究人员，以帮助解决日益多样化的老龄化所带来的挑战， 美国人口。鉴于我们在西班牙裔/拉丁裔老龄化领域的优势， 基于人口的视角，我们关注与这些人群的健康差异相关的因素， 一般来说，少数民族。博士前的学生通过与其他领域的博士生互动而受益。 人口健康科学计划，由生物医学科学研究生院资助。邮报- 博士研究员以及博士预科生都住在西利老龄化中心。 我们的教师有着悠久的流行病学，社会和行为研究老龄化的历史， 西班牙裔人口老龄化的优势。UTMB目前是两个大的人口为基础， 由国家老龄化研究所资助的纵向队列研究，西班牙裔既定人口， 老年人流行病学研究（西班牙裔EPESE）和墨西哥健康与老龄化研究（MHAS）， 并主持多学科老龄化研究基金。目前在附属项目的教师有 在社会学，人口学，人类学，社会流行病学，医学，公共卫生，康复优势 科学和老年医学我们的计划是建立在我们的优势和培训科学家在社会/行为和 与西班牙裔/拉丁裔老龄化以及一般健康差异有关的流行病学因素。如 在我们目前的项目中，将特别努力从代表性不足的学生中招收学生。 背景，我们所有的学员将专注于西班牙裔和其他少数民族老年人的健康研究 成年人了与我们以前的赠款相比，我们提出的新方案是：a）培训新的领导层 计划和新的关键教师，B）加强招聘方法，以及c）一个新的主题领域 着重

ABSTRACT This application seeks funds for 5 years, to continue the current NIH-funded T32 program for Hispanic and other Minority Health and Aging at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), to support 3 pre- doctoral and 1 post-doctoral trainees per year. The program aims to increase and improve the pool of researchers with relevant expertise to help address challenges raised by the growing diversity in aging of the United States population. Given our strengths in the areas of Hispanic/Latino aging with a multi-disciplinary, population based perspective, we focus on factors related to health disparities involving these populations as well as minorities in general. The pre-doctoral students benefit by interacting with PhD students in other Population Health Science programs, funded by the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. The post- doctoral fellows as well as the pre-doctoral students are housed in the Sealy Center on Aging. Our faculty have had a long history of epidemiological, social and behavioral research on aging with particular strengths in Hispanic population aging. UTMB is currently the home of two large population-based, longitudinal, cohort studies funded by the National Institute on Aging, the Hispanic Established Population for the Epidemiological Study of the Elderly (Hispanic EPESE) and the Mexican Health and Aging Study (MHAS), and hosts multi-disciplinary research grants on aging. The current faculty in the affiliated programs have strengths in sociology, demography, anthropology, social epidemiology, medicine, public health, rehabilitation sciences, and geriatrics. Our plan is to build on our strengths and train scientists in social/ behavioral and epidemiological factors related to aging in Hispanic/Latino aging as well as health disparities in general. As is the case in our current program, special efforts will be made to recruit students from underrepresented backgrounds, and all our trainees will focus their research on the health of Hispanic and other minority older adults. Compared to our previous grant, new in our proposed program are: a) new leadership in the training program and new key faculty, b) a strengthened recruitment approach, and c) one new area of thematic emphasis.