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Peer review at NIH and racial/ethnic bias – CSR has been moving to try and reduce implicit bias and other factors that have contributed to disparities in grant success. See a summary at https://www.csr.nih.gov/reviewmatters/2020/06/12/race-peer-review/.

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

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…

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…

Honored: Toni Antonucci MCFAAD Co-Director was awarded the 2020 Association for Psychological Science Mentor Award. The award recognizes psychology researchers and educators who have shaped the future directions of science by fostering the careers of students and colleagues. The award honors the importance of mentoring in the field as well as the dedication and impact…

Multicultural Aging Efforts at the American Psychological Association is a webpage with resources for psychologists and other health providers, resources for older adults and their families, blog posts on cultural diversity and aging, and infographics. Recent additions to the page include a webinar on mental health care and a fact sheet on palliative and end-of-life care. https://www.apa.org/pi/aging/programs/eol/end-of-life-diversity

NIA has funded the Neighborhood Atlas, a user-friendly, online tool that enables customized ranking and mapping of neighborhoods according to socioeconomic disadvantage across the full U.S., including Puerto Rico. https://www.nia.nih.gov/research/blog/2019/11/neighborhood-atlas-free-social-determinants-health-data-all