Michigan Center for
Administrative & Investigative Cores
Administrative
The Administrative Core of the MCUAAAR provides administrative support, facilitate intellectual interchange, and provide overall coordination within the Center and with other university units and community health service sites.
The significance of the Administrative Core activities rests in the smooth transition that has been made from the previous two MCUAAAR grants to the first year of this grant in which MCUAAAR has made substantial progress in developing the infrastructure necessary to provide important results in the future James Jackson, Ph.D. from the University of Michigan and Peter Lichtenberg, Ph.D. from Wayne State University Institute of Gerontology serve as the Principal Investigators of the grant. The core leaders are responsible for ensuring that the center continues to meet its objectives.
The Core continues to improve the infrastructure, networks and personnel necessary to address the evolving needs of the MCUAAAR; 2) continue to support ongoing and newly funded pilot investigators, 3) and to assist those who have completed their studies in the preparation of grant submissions to the NIH.
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Investigator
The Investigator Development Core identifys, selects, and mentors multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural investigators interested in research and interventions on the health of minority elders.
One of the chief aims of the Michigan Center for Urban African American Aging Research is to develop junior African American faculty in research skills on African American Elders. The four major activities for this Core are: 1) Conducting a summer training workshop; 2) assisting with individual grants of current and previous pilot investigators; 3) Intensive development activities for MCUAAAR Pilot Scholars through the use of pilot studies; 4) The dissemination of research on African American Research Perspectives Robert Taylor, Ph.D. from the University of Michigan and Louis A. Penner, Ph.D. from Wayne State University are the Investigator core leaders.
The Investigator Core funds and mentors research projects for junior African American and other underrepresented faculty. The focus of pilot projects has been identifying and developing potential pilot scholars and providing mentoring during proposal development.
Use this link to view our the Investigator Development Core - Pilot Scholars
Requests for MCUAAAR Pilot Grant Proposals
Use this link to see MCUAAAR workshop presentations
Health and Dissemination Policy Initiative
Co-Leaders: Carmen Green, MD and Tom Jankowski, PhD
- Database and links to health policy internships & fellowships sponsored by the Kaiser Family Foundation: http://www.kaiseredu.org/fellowships/default.aspx
- The Health and Aging Policy Fellowship Program: http://www.healthandagingpolicy.org/
- NCHS/AcademyHealth Health Policy Fellowship, Applications due January 5, 2009: http://www.academyhealth.org/nchs/apply.htm
The Healthcare Bubble Through the Lens of Pain Research, Practice, and Policy: Advice for the New President and Congress.The Journal of Pain, Vol 9, No 12 (December), 2008: pp 1071-1073, Carmen R. Green, MD , Associate Professor, Departments of Anesthesiology and Health, Management and Policy, University of Michigan Schools of Medicine and Public Health, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Available online at www.sciencedirect.com
- Barbara Jordan Health Policy Scholars Program, Applications due December 12, 2008: http://www.kff.org/minorityhealth/bjscholars/index.cfm
For more information contact: Karen L. Daniels @ 313-871-0735 or kldaniels@wayne.edu
MCUAAAR is a collaboration between the University of Michigan and Wayne State University