Guerrero Lourdes R, Huerta Denisse M, Pourat Nadereh
Department of Neurosciences, University of California, San Diego, CA, USA.
UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Gerontol Geriatr Educ. 2024 Oct 25:1-8. doi: 10.1080/02701960.2024.2421162.
The Resource Centers for Minority Aging Research (RCMAR) is a flagship education, training, and development program of the National Institute of Health (NIH), and the National Institute on Aging (NIA) focused on increasing the number and diversity of researchers in aging. We sought to assess the program's contributions to geriatric and gerontology education by examining the scientific productivity of 294 RCMAR scientists who received pilot funding from the program during the last complete grant cycle, 2018 to 2023. Across the 18 funded sites, the scientists obtained 53 NIH grants and 29 NIA-specific grants. They published 281 manuscripts, of which 141 were noted as direct outcomes of the pilot funding and support received through the program. Findings indicated that the RCMAR program in its last cycle succeeded in promoting education and scientific career development of researchers from diverse backgrounds and researchers focused on health disparities to conduct transdisciplinary social and behavioral aging research.
少数族裔老龄化研究资源中心（RCMAR）是美国国立卫生研究院（NIH）和美国国立衰老研究所（NIA）的一个旗舰教育、培训和发展项目，致力于增加老龄化领域研究人员的数量和多样性。我们试图通过考察294位在2018年至2023年最后一个完整资助周期内获得该项目试点资助的RCMAR科学家的科研产出，来评估该项目对老年医学和老年学教育的贡献。在18个获得资助的地点，这些科学家获得了53项NIH资助和29项NIA专项资助。他们发表了281篇论文，其中141篇被认为是通过该项目获得的试点资助和支持的直接成果。研究结果表明，RCMAR项目在上一个周期成功地促进了来自不同背景的研究人员以及专注于健康差异问题的研究人员的教育和科研职业发展，使他们能够开展跨学科的社会和行为老龄化研究。
