Harawa Nina T, Manson Spero M, Mangione Carol M, Penner Louis A, Norris Keith C, DeCarli Charles, Scarinci Isabel C, Zissimopoulos Julie, Buchwald Dedra S, Hinton Ladson, Pérez-Stable Eliseo J
RCMAR National Coordinating Center, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Native Elder Research Center, Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado, Denver, CO, USA.
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The Resource Centers for Minority Aging Research (RCMAR) program was launched in 1997. Its goal is to build infrastructure to improve the well-being of older racial/ethnic minorities by identifying mechanisms to reduce health disparities.
Its primary objectives are to mentor faculty in research addressing the health of minority elders and to enhance the diversity of the workforce that conducts elder health research by prioritizing the mentorship of underrepresented diverse scholars.
Through 2015, 12 centers received RCMAR awards and provided pilot research funding and mentorship to 361 scholars, 70% of whom were from underrepresented racial/ethnic groups. A large majority (85%) of RCMAR scholars from longstanding centers continue in academic research. Another 5% address aging and other health disparities through nonacademic research and leadership roles in public health agencies.
Longitudinal, team-based mentoring, cross-center scholar engagement, and community involvement in scholar development are important contributors to RCMAR's success.
少数族裔老龄化研究资源中心（RCMAR）项目于1997年启动。其目标是通过确定减少健康差距的机制来建设基础设施，以改善老年种族/族裔少数群体的福祉。
其主要目标是指导从事少数族裔老年人健康研究的教员，并通过优先指导代表性不足的不同学者来增加从事老年健康研究的劳动力的多样性。
到2015年，12个中心获得了RCMAR奖项，并为361名学者提供了试点研究资金和指导，其中70%来自代表性不足的种族/族裔群体。来自长期设立中心的RCMAR学者中的绝大多数（85%）继续从事学术研究。另外5%通过非学术研究以及在公共卫生机构担任领导职务来解决老龄化和其他健康差距问题。
纵向的、基于团队的指导、跨中心学者参与以及社区参与学者培养是RCMAR取得成功的重要因素。
