# Health of Older Minorities

> **NIH NIH T32** · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MED BR GALVESTON · 2021 · $195,386

## Abstract

ABSTRACT
 This application seeks funds for 5 years, to continue the current NIH-funded T32 program for Hispanic
and other Minority Health and Aging at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB), to support 3 pre-
doctoral and 1 post-doctoral trainees per year. The program aims to increase and improve the pool of
researchers with relevant expertise to help address challenges raised by the growing diversity in aging of the
United States population. Given our strengths in the areas of Hispanic/Latino aging with a multi-disciplinary,
population based perspective, we focus on factors related to health disparities involving these populations as
well as minorities in general. The pre-doctoral students benefit by interacting with PhD students in other
Population Health Science programs, funded by the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. The post-
doctoral fellows as well as the pre-doctoral students are housed in the Sealy Center on Aging.
 Our faculty have had a long history of epidemiological, social and behavioral research on aging with
particular strengths in Hispanic population aging. UTMB is currently the home of two large population-based,
longitudinal, cohort studies funded by the National Institute on Aging, the Hispanic Established Population for
the Epidemiological Study of the Elderly (Hispanic EPESE) and the Mexican Health and Aging Study (MHAS),
and hosts multi-disciplinary research grants on aging. The current faculty in the affiliated programs have
strengths in sociology, demography, anthropology, social epidemiology, medicine, public health, rehabilitation
sciences, and geriatrics. Our plan is to build on our strengths and train scientists in social/ behavioral and
epidemiological factors related to aging in Hispanic/Latino aging as well as health disparities in general. As is
the case in our current program, special efforts will be made to recruit students from underrepresented
backgrounds, and all our trainees will focus their research on the health of Hispanic and other minority older
adults. Compared to our previous grant, new in our proposed program are: a) new leadership in the training
program and new key faculty, b) a strengthened recruitment approach, and c) one new area of thematic
emphasis.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10224635
- **Project number:** 5T32AG000270-22
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MED BR GALVESTON
- **Principal Investigator:** Rebeca Wong
- **Activity code:** T32 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $195,386
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 1999-08-01 → 2023-08-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10224635

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10224635, Health of Older Minorities (5T32AG000270-22). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10224635. Licensed CC0.

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