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Small Grants: Telomere Measurement Network
Small grants: for up to five projects that address scientific gaps in relation to telomere length (YL) as it applies to epidemiological research. The projects can include secondary analyses of large samples (>300) that examine TL as a sentinel of environmental exposures, psychosocial stress and disease susceptibility. This is targeted for postdocs or Early Stage…
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NIA Strategic Directions for Research, 2020-2025
This new document outlines NIA’s broad strategic directions for the next five years. Its goals are organized under: understanding the dynamics of the aging process, improving the health, well-being, and independence of adults as they age (Goal F in this domain focuses on health disparities), and supporting the research enterprise. https://www.nia.nih.gov/sites/default/files/2020-05/nia-strategic-directions-2020-2025.pdf
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NIH Emergency Competitive Revisions to designed to address COVID19
NIH has a series of new Emergency Competitive Revisions to existing grants announcements designed to address COVID19 disparities. · NOT-OD-20-121 encourages community-engaged Testing Research Projects to supplement large scale networks, consortia, or centers, will examine SARS-CoV-2 infection patterns and efforts to increase access and effectiveness of diagnostic methods. · NOT-OD-20-120 encourages community-engaged Testing Research Projects, but shifts the…
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NIA Announces Patricia Jones as the new Director of the Office of Special Populations
NIA is happy to announce Patricia Jones as their new Director of the Office of Special Populations. Dr. Jones comes to NIA from the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), where she served since 2016 as a senior scientist leading a national program evaluation project, and simultaneously as a senior program official leading multiple…
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NIH COVID-19 Funding Opportunities
The purpose of the notice below is to highlight those COVID-19 grant opportunities at NIH.
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Meet our Advisory Board
The RCMAR National Coordinating Center Advisory Board Members support our efforts to provide national linkages and professional networking between research users (i.e. program directors, policy makers, and other academics) and RCMAR Scientists. They contribute ideas about emerging trends in minority aging health issues that would benefit from new research by emerging scholars, and inform us…
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Long-Term Effects of Disasters on Health Care Systems Serving Health Disparity Populations (R01) PA-20-172
The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to support investigative and collaborative research focused on understanding the long-term effects of natural and/or human-made disasters on health care systems serving health disparity populations in communities in the U.S., including the U.S. territories. NIH-designated health disparity populations include racial and ethnic minorities (Blacks/African Americans, Hispanics/Latinos,…
