This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Aging (CFDA 93.866 Aging Research) provides $116,338 to Brown University to analyze the impact of civil unrest on healthcare utilization and mental healthcare for older adults enrolled in traditional Medicare. The study will track healthcare metrics such as preventable hospitalizations, emergency department visits, and primary care visits in Minneapolis, Baltimore, and Ferguson for 6 months before and 24-36 months after civil unrest...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Aging (CFDA 93.866 - Aging Research) provides $2,219,481.00 to Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey to conduct a study examining how social networks and interpersonal factors impact health behaviors and cognitive performance among aging Black and Latino sexual minority men in New Jersey. The study aims to: 1) elucidate the cross-sectional associations between interpersonal stigma, social support, social network characteristics, and...
This $4.5 million project grant from the National Institute on Aging, part of the Department of Health and Human Services, supports research under the Aging Research program (CFDA 93.866). The University of Michigan will examine racial inequities in neurological conditions like vascular contributions to cognitive impairment and dementia (VCID) and stroke. Leveraging the Reasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke study cohort of over 30,000 adults, the research aims to determine...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Aging (CFDA 93.866 Aging Research) provides $395,494 to The Regents of the University of California, San Francisco to conduct a mixed-methods investigation on the impact of structural gendered racism on cognitive aging and Alzheimer's disease risk in Black women. The study aims to: 1) develop and validate a multidimensional index of structural gendered racism, 2) identify distinct latent class profiles of structural gendered racism, and...
This Project Grant award, funded by the National Institute on Aging (NIA) under the Aging Research program (CFDA 93.866), aims to conduct a 20-year longitudinal study examining psychosocial risk and protective factors for cognitive functioning among middle-aged and older Black Americans. The $2,118,030 award will support the re-interview of approximately 2,600 participants from the nationally representative National Survey of American Life (NSAL) sample, with enhanced data collection including...
This federal Project Grant award of $1,108,070 from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (CFDA 93.307 - Minority Health and Health Disparities Research) aims to develop new community-driven data collection methods and agent-based models to examine the impact of structural racism on Black longevity. The grantee, Digital Organizing, Power-Building And Engagement Labs (Dope Labs), will use mobile technology to enhance community-based participatory research and create new...
This federal Project Grant award from the National Institute on Aging (CFDA 93.866 - Aging Research) provides $163,979 to the Trustees of Dartmouth College to evaluate the long-term health impacts of housing instability and racial/ethnic disparities among Black, Latino, and white households. The study will leverage longitudinal data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to: 1) estimate the effects of housing instability on late-life health outcomes, 2) determine if racial/ethnic disparities in...
The National Institute on Aging (NIA), under the Aging Research federal grant program (CFDA 93.866), awarded a $276,621.19 project grant to the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) with a performance period from September 1, 2024 to May 31, 2027. This grant will fund a research study to investigate the impact of early-life exposure to Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) on late-life cognition, vascular risk factors for Alzheimer's disease and related dementias...
This federal Project Grant award for $729,567, provided by the National Institute on Aging (CFDA 93.866 - Aging Research), will fund a study to investigate the causal impacts of two key childhood environmental conditions - school quality and infectious disease exposure - on adult health and mortality outcomes. The study aims to construct a novel dataset linking individual-level childhood environment factors to longevity, in order to examine how these modifiable conditions affect schooling,...
The National Institute on Aging (NIA) awarded a $331,270 Project Grant (CFDA 93.866 - Aging Research) to the University of Houston System to study the association between place, stress, and cognitive status among middle-aged and older Black men. The 2-year project aims to leverage data from the Health and Retirement Study and U.S. Census to introduce and evaluate a conceptual model examining how residential environments may impact the relationship between stress and cognitive impairment in...