RCMAR Resources

 

YouTube Channel

 

Career Development

 

Research and Measurement

 

Annual Meeting Files

YouTube Channel

The RCMAR YouTube Channel has a library of webinars, including topics like:   

• Tools for Understanding Contextual Factors that Affect the Health of Diverse Older Adults. Speakers: Patricia Jones, NIA; Amy Kind, MD, PhD, University of WI; Jennifer Ailshire, PhD, USC-AD RCMAR
• Imposter Thoughts: Let’s Talk about Them. Speaker: Ericka Boone, PhD, NIH; Roland Thorpe, PhD, JHAD-RCMAR; Brandon Brown, MD, MPH, CHIME; Mirella Diaz-Santos, PhD, CHIME
• Best Practices for Using and Obtaining Diversity Supplements. Speaker: Maria G. Carranza, PhD, NIA
• NIH Repays your Student Loans: And In-Depth Overview of the NIH Loan Repayment Programs. Speaker: Ericka Boone, PhD, NIH
• Additional video resources from RCMAR sites

And more!

Career Development

Unconscious Bias Course

The Unconscious Bias Course will help you address your personal unconscious bias, teach you about microaggressions, provide a solutions toolkit, develop your self-awareness, and discuss bias and disparities in medicine and healthcare

Career Development Resources

Career Development Resources from the National Research Mentoring Network

Mentorship

Raising a Resilient Scientist Series

Establishing Collaborations with Other NIA Centers

The objective of the Research Centers Coordinating Network (RCCN) is to initiate new cross-disciplinary collaborative networks that bring together key thought leaders from each of the six NIA center programs to align approaches across programs that will uncover synergies and insights that lead to novel collaborations.

RCMAR Webinars

Getting the Most Out of Your Mentoring Relationships. Speaker: Roger B. Fillingim

Optimizing Mentoring Experiencing, Part II: Addressing Challenges that Arise. Speakers: Anna Napoles, Roger Fillingim, and Roland Thorpe

The NIH Review Process: Perspectives from a RCMAR Scientist. Speakers: Roger Fillingim,  Alison Moore,  Roland Thorpe, and Annie Nguyen

Research and Measurement

Recruiting Older Adults into Research

The NIH, CDC and ACL are collaborating on the Recruiting Older Adults into Research (ROAR) project to encourage older adults and their family caregivers to consider participating in research by creating a customizable toolkit in different languages that highlights the importance of research to healthy aging.

All of Us Research Hub

The NIH All of Us Research Hub stores health data from a diverse group of participants from across the United States.

Registered researchers can access All of Us data and tools to conduct studies to help improve our understanding of human health.

Phenx Toolkit

Is a web-based catalog of recommended measurement protocols for researchers. Funding Opportunity Announcements (FOAs) often recommended using these. Using these allows researchers to increase the impact of their individual studies. Includes social determinants of health and COVID-19 questions. 

Neighborhood Atlas

The Neighborhood Atlas website was created in order to freely share measures of neighborhood disadvantage with the public, including educational institutions, health systems, not-for-profit organizations, and government agencies, in order to make these metrics available for use in research, program planning, and policy development.

Resources from RCMAR Sites

Articles and other resources on topics relevant to RCMAR scientists, including: career development topics, grant writing resources, social determinants of health disparities, working with minority populations, community engagement, measurement methods and more.

Annual Meeting Files

Includes materials from the 2022 RCMAR Annual Meeting as well as shared resources on various topics such as: G*Power, Intervention Feasibility, Mixed Methods, Recruitment & STATA.

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