Department of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
School of Nursing, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Gerontol Geriatr Educ. 2023 Jul 3;44(3):466-479. doi: 10.1080/02701960.2022.2097670. Epub 2022 Jul 9.
The development of a skilled research workforce in aging is fundamental to understanding conditions associated with growing older and extending healthy, active years of life. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) supports the training of health scientists, and its National Institute on Aging (NIA) prioritizes the professional development of investigators with an interest in aging. Since 1987, NIA's Summer Institute on Aging Research, renamed the Butler-Williams (B-W) Scholars Program in 2013, has offered an intensive one-week experience on issues, opportunities, and challenges of research on aging, with emphasis on disparities and health equity. The first 30 years of the Program are described in this report, including its history, selected curriculum highlights, Scholar outcomes, and qualitative data from faculty, and the program's impact on the training, growth, and development of scientists in aging research. Questions raised over a decade ago by the Committee on the Future Health Care Workforce for Older Americans Board on Health Care Services are revisited, and recommendations for the future are provided. This important Program remains an exemplar for the training and development of health scientists for careers that advance biomedical research and emphasize an equitable understanding of factors related to extending healthy years of life.
培养熟练的老龄化研究人员队伍对于了解与人口老龄化相关的各种条件以及延长健康、活跃的寿命至关重要。美国国立卫生研究院（NIH）支持卫生科学家的培训，其下属的国家老龄化研究所（NIA）优先重视对老龄化研究感兴趣的研究人员的专业发展。自 1987 年以来，NIA 的老龄化研究暑期学院（更名为 Butler-Williams 学者计划，简称 B-W 学者计划）已提供了为期一周的密集老龄化研究问题、机遇和挑战的体验，重点关注差异和健康公平问题。本报告介绍了该计划的前 30 年，包括其历史、精选课程重点、学者成果以及来自教师的定性数据，以及该计划对老龄化研究领域的科学家培训、成长和发展的影响。重新审视了 10 多年前美国老年人未来医疗保健劳动力委员会和医疗保健服务委员会提出的关于未来健康保健劳动力的问题，并提供了未来的建议。该重要计划仍然是培训和发展健康科学家的典范，其职业旨在推进生物医学研究，并强调对延长健康寿命相关因素的公平理解。
