# Roybal Center Administrative Core

> **NIH NIH P30** · DUKE UNIVERSITY · 2020 · $229,493

## Abstract

MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATIVE CORE PROJECT SUMMARY.
The overall goal of the Duke Roybal Center is to catalyze the development of cross-disciplinary research to
develop and test innovative behavioral and social interventions for older adults. These interventions will
address our theme of improving mobility to enhance functional independence and increase engagement with
meaningful activities and participation. The Management and Administrative Core (MAC) will contribute to this
goal by guiding the overall direction of the Center, serving as a central communication and decision-making
hub. The purpose of the MAC is threefold. First, it will set up and guide the overall direction of the Center and
allocation of its resources by operating in a highly integrated fashion with the Roybal Pilot Core, NIA-funded
Demography and Economics of Aging and Older American Independence (Pepper) Centers at Duke, Advisory
Committee, other Roybal Centers and the Roybal Coordinating Center. Second, it will leverage Center
resources and expertise at all levels of the Stage Model to provide a structure for experiential learning of the
practical research skills needed to design, refine, test, and implement translational behavioral interventions
focused on improving mobility, and foster new research collaborations and proposals among established and
junior researchers across disciplines. Third, the MAC will closely monitor the process and outcome indicators
of advancement for funded pilot projects and Center activities. The MAC Core aims to:
 Aim 1: Coordinate and oversee the administrative functions of the Center in order to establish and maintain
 centralized research resources and a stable research infrastructure to advance translational behavioral
 intervention research to enhance mobility and functioning in older adults.
 Aim 2: Optimize the use of Center resources and expertise at all levels of the Stage Model to facilitate,
 monitor, and accelerate pilot research and provide an enriched environment that crosses disciplines. This
 enriched environment includes experiential learning informed by Social Cognitive Theory to foster the
 development of skills needed to design, refine, test, and implement novel behavioral interventions for
 enhancing mobility.
 Aim 3: Evaluate funded pilot projects and Center activities with the Center’s research-driven process and
 outcome indicators, make data-driven improvements, and annually report the overall effectiveness and
 efficiency of the Center, its Cores, and funded pilot projects.
The MAC will operate in ways that are designed to catalyze experiential learning in the practical skills
necessary for conducting cross-disciplinary research to develop and test innovative interventions for older
adults. Our approach may serve as a national model for skills-based research training for researchers to
develop effective and translatable behavioral interventions to enhance mobility in older adults.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10017853
- **Project number:** 5P30AG064201-02
- **Recipient organization:** DUKE UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** Francis J. Keefe
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $229,493
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2019-09-15 → 2024-05-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10017853

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10017853, Roybal Center Administrative Core (5P30AG064201-02). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10017853. Licensed CC0.

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