The Investigator Development Core of CADC will continue to attract minority trainees and successfullydevelop investigators with interest in a research career focused on epidemiological, social, behavioral, andpolicy issues relevant to minority populations for heaRhy aging. The Investigator Development Core of theCADC will have three components. First, we will fund junior minority investigators to conduct pilot studies toinvestigate issues of aging in African American, Latino and Asian American populations. These pilot studieswill be led or co-led by minority investigators at the junior faculty or post-doctoral fellow level and supervisedby the CADC core faculty as well as affiliated aging researchers at UCSF. Second, the InvestigatorDevelopment Core will create a program to disseminate research information to all potentially interestedaudiences including community-based organizations, health care professionals and trainees, and opinionleaders within the African American, Latino and Asian American communities. Third, we will formalize andstrengthen the Continual Mentoring Activity within CADC by engaging graduates of the program in studiesand in mentoring of fellows and less experienced faculty.
Specific Aims for this Core are:A) To sustain the network of researchers with expertise in minority health and aging and select a minimum ofthree studies per year to be funded for pilot work focused on the Program Theme of healthy aging both fromUCSF and other local institutions.B) To assist and mentor the less experienced minority investigators funded through CADC in conductingtheir pilot studies and in identifying the appropriate next step in career development such as submission ofan independent research proposal based on the data collected.C) To establish a program for disseminating research information regarding techniques used for conductingresearch involving African American, Asian American and Latino aging populations within UCSF, the greateracademic community of aging researchers and the target communities.
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