NIA Funded Centers

Centers on the Demography of Aging

The Behavioral and Social Research Program at the National Institute on Aging supports thirteen P30 Centers on the Demography of Aging at leading universities and policy organizations around the U.S. The purpose of the centers is to foster research in demography, economics and epidemiology of aging and to promote use of important datasets in the field.

Key activities of the Centers include the following:

• Workshops and Conferences
• Newsletters and Reports
• Web-Based Information and Resources
• Multi-Disciplinary Collaborations
• International Collaborations
• Research on Aging
• Pilot Projects on Innovative Topics
• Data Resource Development
• Statistical Enclaves for Sensitive Data
• Methodological Research
• Training Programs

Michigan Center on the Demography of Aging University of Michigan	Center on the Demography and Economics of Aging NORC and University of Chicago
Center for Health & Wellbeing Princeton University	Center for Aging and Policy Studies Syracuse University
Hopkins Center for Population Aging and Health Johns Hopkins University	Center on the Economics and Demography of Aging U.C. Berkeley
National Bureau of Economic Research Cambridge	Population Aging Research Center University of Pennsylvania
RAND Center for the Study of Aging	Center on the Demography and Economics of Health and Aging (CDEHA) Stanford University
USC/UCLA Center of Biodemography and Population Health Los Angeles	Center for Demography of Health and Aging, CDHA University of Wisconsin - Madison
Program on the Global Demography of Aging, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies Harvard University

Resource Centers for Minority Aging Research

Health disparities are associated with a broad, complex, and interrelated array of factors. Risk factors, diagnosis, progression, response to treatment, caregiving, and overall quality of life may be affected by race, ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic status, age, and other factors. Disparities in health status and medical care are most acutely experienced by the older population since they are at the highest risk for most diseases and disability. To eliminate health disparities, a widely established national priority, requires research that includes a special focus on the distribution of disease and disability between racial and ethnic groups in society.

The Resource Centers for Minority Aging Research (RCMAR) mission is to decrease health disparities by:

• Increasing the number of researchers who focus on the health of minority elders;
• Enhancing the diversity in the professional workforce by mentoring minority academic researchers for careers in minority elders health research;
• Improving recruitment and retention methods used to enlist minority elders in research studies;
• Creating culturally sensitive health measures that assess the health status of minority elders with greater precision; and,
• Increasing the effectiveness of interventions designed to improve their health and well-being.

Resource Centers for Minority Aging Research	Michigan Center for Urban African American Aging Research Wayne State University
Centers for American Indian and Alaska Native Health University of Colorado, Denver	UAB Center for Aging University of Alabama
Center for Health Improvement of Minority Elders UCLA,Berkley	Center for Aging in Diverse Communities University of California