RCMAR Symposium at APHA: Diverse approaches to studying diverse populations
Diverse communities often require diverse approaches to research and intervention development. This symposium presents new research on health disparities faced by older adults in diverse communities using both quantitative analyses of large datasets and community-engaged qualitative studies. Presenters are all from the NIA-funded Resource Centers on Minority Aging Research (RCMAR), which provides mentoring and support for junior faculty to develop research careers on issues of minority aging. This symposium highlights the work of RCMAR Scientists from across the country who are innovating new approaches to understanding elders of color to improve their health, access to care, and quality of life. View the session on APHA’s website.
Hourly Schedule
October 26, 2020
- 7:30 am – 7:45 am
- Diverse Approaches to studying diverse populations: New research from RCMAR scientists
- Steven Wallace, PhD, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA and Patricia Jones, DrPH, MPH, MS, National Institute on Aging, NIH, Bethesda, MD
- 7:45 am – 8:00 am
- Cognitive disability among arab americans by nativity status: Lack of evidence for the healthy migrant effect
- Tiffany Kindratt, PhD MPH, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, Florence Dallo, PhD, MPH, Oakland University, Rochester, MI and Laura Zahodne, PhD, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
- 8:00 am – 8:15 am
- Health inequities of access to and satisfaction with quality of care among older adults with alzheimer’s disease and related dementias
- Kevin Lu, PhD, FISPE, BPharm1, Minghui Li, PhD2 and Xiaomo Xiong, MS1, (1)University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, (2)The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN
- 8:15 am – 8:30 am
- We’re not patients. we’re inmates”: Older black women and trans* people’s experience of health and illness during and after incarceration
- Jennifer James, PhD, MSW, MSSP, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
- 8:30 am – 8:45 am
- Using theatre as a tool to engage older black women in the identification, support, and treatment of their depressive symptoms
- Kia Skrine Jeffers, PhD, RN, PHN, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA