Health of Older Minorities

摘要 本申请寻求为期5年的资金，以继续目前由NIH资助的针对少数族裔的T32计划 德克萨斯大学医学部(UTMB)的健康和老龄化，以支持3名博士后和1名博士后 每年的实习生人数。该计划旨在增加和改善具有相关知识的研究人员队伍 帮助应对美国人口老龄化日益多样化所带来的挑战的专门知识。 鉴于我们在拉美裔/拉丁裔老龄化领域的优势，我们以多学科、以人口为基础的观点， 我们侧重于涉及这些人群以及代表性不足群体的健康差距的相关因素。 总体而言。 博士后研究员和博士后学生住在Sealy老龄中心， 它是大多数T32教职员工的附属机构。这些博士前学生从公共学院获得学位 和人口健康，并通过与其他项目中的博士生互动受益，这些项目由AHRQ和 生物医学研究生院。我们的教职员工在流行病学、社会学和 西班牙裔人口老龄化中具有特殊优势的老龄化行为研究。与建议的 T32是UTMB目前是两项大型基于人群的纵向队列研究的所在地，该研究由 国家老龄研究所-西班牙裔老年流行病学研究的既定人口 (西班牙裔EPESE)和墨西哥健康与老龄化研究(MHAS)。我们的教员拥有多名由调查员发起的 赠款，以及关于老龄化的多学科研究基础设施赠款，包括一个胡椒中心 和少数民族老龄化研究资源中心(RCMAR)。 隶属于T32项目的26名教职员工代表了多个领域的研究优势 学科--流行病学、人口学、人类学、社会学、经济学、公共卫生、康复 科学、老年病学和卫生政策。他们还代表了全国五所学校和不同的部门。 校园里。我们的计划是在我们优势的基础上，培训社会/行为和流行病学方面的科学家 与西班牙裔/拉丁裔人口老龄化以及一般健康差距有关的办法。就像我们的 目前的计划，我们将特别努力招募来自代表性不足背景的实习生，而所有 我们的受训人员将把他们的研究重点放在少数族裔老年人的健康上。与我们之前的赠款相比，新的 在我们提议的计划中：a)扩大培训计划中的导师群体，b)扩大招聘队伍 对于博士前实习生，以及c)为实习生发展的一个新领域：在不同团队中成长的技能， 包括研究团队在学科、种族/民族、性别和资历构成方面的多样性。

ABSTRACT This application seeks funds for 5 years, to continue the current NIH-funded T32 program for Minority Health and Aging at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), to support 3 pre-doctoral and 1 postdoctoral 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 under-represented groups in general. The post-doctoral fellows and the pre-doctoral students are housed in the Sealy Center on Aging, with which most T32 faculty are affiliated. The pre-doctoral students receive their degree from the School of Public and Population Health, and benefit by interacting with PhD students in other programs, funded by AHRQ and by the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. Our faculty have a long history of epidemiological, social and behavioral research on aging with particular strengths in Hispanic population aging. Of relevance to the proposed T32 is that 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). Our faculty hold multiple investigator-initiated grants, as well as multi-disciplinary research infrastructure grants on aging, including a Pepper Center for Independent Older Adults and a Resource Center for Minority Aging Research (RCMAR). The 26 faculty members affiliated with the T32 program represent research strengths in multiple disciplines - epidemiology, demography, anthropology, sociology, economics, public health, rehabilitation sciences, geriatrics, and health policy. They also represent five schools and various departments across the campus. Our plan is to build on our strengths and train scientists in social/ behavioral and epidemiological approaches related to aging in Hispanic/Latino populations as well as health disparities in general. As in our current program, we will make special efforts to recruit trainees from under-represented backgrounds, while all our trainees will focus their research on the health of minority older adults. Compared to our previous grant, new in our proposed program are: a) expanded group of mentors in the training program, b} a larger recruitment pool for pre-doctoral trainees, and c) one new area of development for trainees: skills for growing in diverse teams, including diversity in disciplines, race/ethnicity, gender, and seniority composition of the research teams.