# Recruiting & Retaining Older African Americans into Research (ROAR)

> **NIH NIH R24** · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · 2021 · $413,656

## Abstract

ABSTRACT
The Recruiting and Retaining Older African Americans into Research (ROAR) project is designed to develop
and disseminate effective strategies to recruit, retain, and promote participation in health-related research
among African American older adults. This project builds upon 20 years of successful efforts to engage and
provide health promotion programming for older adult community members in Detroit, MI through the Michigan
Center for Urban African American Aging Research (MCUAAAR), a collaborative partnership between The
University of Michigan, Wayne State University, and most recently, Michigan State University. At the center of
the current MCUAAAR research recruitment infrastructure is a Community Advisory Board of African American
older adults, housed at MCUAAAR's Healthier Black Elders Center in Detroit, MI. This advisory board meets
regularly to review and provide approval for research applications from investigators who want to sample from
a Participant Research Registry of 1400 older African Americans in Detroit who have agreed to be contacted to
participate in social science research. The advisory board also provides feedback on MCUAAAR community
programming and receives instruction on how to evaluate and interpret social science research. The
MCUAAAR team, led by Dr. James Jackson and Dr. Jamie Mitchell, will utilize community-based participatory
approaches to significantly expand the recruitment and retention capabilities of the current infrastructure by
achieving the following three aims with corresponding methods and outcomes. First, we will engage local
community partners in order to recruit, train and establish a research advisory board of African American older
adults in Flint, Michigan in service of a future Flint Participant Research Registry. Establishing a research
advisory board of African American older adults in Flint, Michigan with the support of new and existing
community partnerships, will provide the community-driven infrastructure for building a future research registry
of older adults in Flint that investigators can apply to utilize similar to the existing Detroit registry. Next, we will
gain input from both the existing Detroit and new Flint community advisory boards and other stakeholders on
the technological design, content and user interface, resources for male recruitment, and launch of an
interactive recruitment website. This website will feature educational resources for the public on research
participation, information on how to join the registries, features of NIH-relevant research utilizing the registries,
a section targeting men's research recruitment, and administrative tools and best practices for researchers
working with minority older adults. Finally, we will evaluate the reach, usability, and acceptability of the website
with a range of older African Americans and academic and clinical researchers in three cities in order to
demonstrate the strategy's effectiveness with specific populations a...

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10174684
- **Project number:** 5R24AG065151-02
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR
- **Principal Investigator:** Jaymia Ann Mitchell
- **Activity code:** R24 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $413,656
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2020-06-01 → 2023-03-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10174684

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10174684, Recruiting & Retaining Older African Americans into Research (ROAR) (5R24AG065151-02). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10174684. Licensed CC0.

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