making your research count: addressing the national academy of science research agenda on diversity issues”, november 16, 2007, san francisc

"Making Your Research Count: Addressing the National Academy of
Science Research Agenda on Diversity Issues”, November 16, 2007, San
Francisco, CA
This workshop explored three of the National Research Council’s
(NRC’s) research recommendations for minority health in late life. It
provided a forum to review critical research, explore resources and
advance the research agenda on diversity issues. The workshop was
organized by the NIA Research Centers for Minority Aging Research
(RCMAR) and held as a pre-conference to the Gerontological Society of
America’s (GSA’s) annual scientific meeting. Participants included
RCMAR Scholars, junior and senior faculty from related NIA Aging
Centers and projects, an NRC representative and other research faculty
interested in minority aging. It was supported by an NIA R13
conference grant.
The conference opened with an agenda-setting plenary session titled
“Aging, the Life-Course & Health Disparities: Exploring the
Intersections” by James S. Jackson, PhD, Director, Institute for
Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Co-Director,
Michigan Center for Urban African American Aging Research (MCUAAAR).
Keith E. Whitfield, PhD, Research Professor, Department of Psychology
and Neuroscience at Duke University led an interactive discussion of
this presentations’ key elements. The morning sessions set the stage
for a panel of researchers to present their work on the selected NRC
themes.
Dr. Eileen M. Crimmins, Edna M. Jones Professor of Gerontology and
Sociology at the University of Southern California, and NRC
representative, presented “Addressing the National Academy of Sciences
Research Agenda on Diversity Issues” which outlined research
priorities related to NRC Recommendation #6 (Clarify the degree to
which socioeconomic status accounts for racial and ethnic differences
in health outcomes over the life course). She was followed by Mitchell
D. Wong, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor in Residence, Division of
General Internal Medicine/Health Services Research, University of
California, Los Angeles, who discussed his research focused on NRC
Recommendation #1 (Attempt a systematic decomposition of racial and
ethnic differences in mortality and morbidity among older people to
determine the relative contribution of particular diseases or
conditions). An afternoon plenary presented by Eliseo J. Pérez-Stable,
MD, Professor of Medicine; Chief Division of General Internal
Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, Director, Center
for Aging in Diverse Communities (CADC) focused on his research
related to NRC Recommendation #2 (Clarify the contracts between
mortality rankings and morbidity rankings, particularly between older
whites and Hispanics, and assess the relative contributions of
diseases and conditions to differences in mortality and overall health).
The afternoon session provided participants with a panel session
exploring the use of both local and national datasets for minority
aging research. Dr Kenneth F. Ferraro, Director of Center on Aging and
the Life Course; Professor of Sociology, Purdue University presented “Existing
Data and The Opportunities for Diversity Aging Research”, which
discussed the use of datasets related to minority aging research. He
was followed by R. Turner Goins, PhD, Associate Professor, West
Virginia University, RCMAR Scholar, addressed the available datasets
and the need for additional datasets to study the Native American
population.
The afternoon continued with four interactive small group sessions
focused around the following areas: (1) “Race vs. Socioecomonic
Status” facilitated by Janet C. Frank, DrPH, and James S. Jackson,
PhD.; (2) “Disease Burden by Race | Ethnicity” facilitated by Mitchell
D. Wong, MD, PhD, and Keith E. Whitfield, PhD; (3) “Mortality-Morbidity
Paradox” facilitated by Eliseo J. Pérez-Stable, and Steven P. Wallace,
PhD; and (4)
“Cross-Cutting Issues” facilitated by Turner Goins, PhD and Sidney M.
Stahl, PhD. The interactive sessions were followed by a summary
discussion “Mapping Key Research Areas and Needed Resources” delivered
by Janet C. Frank, DrPH, and Steven P. Wallace, PhD. This synthesis of
information assisted workshop attendees in identifying research
questions, needed research, and interests and desires to move forward
on specific recommendations. The day concluded with a closing plenary
titled “Advancing the Research Agenda on Diversity Issues” by Keith
Whitfield, PhD. Dr. Whitfield focused his comments on “training,
teamwork and translation” and presented from his research on the
contribution of environmental and genetic factors to risk for poor
health, poor health behaviors and health disparities.
The workshop materials are available on the National RCMAR
Coordinating Center’s website: www.rcmar.ucla.edu. For more
information, please contact Ms. Pamela Jackson-McCall at
[email protected].

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