# Improving the Health of Aging Women and Men.

> **NIH NIH T32** · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · 2022 · $375,540

## Abstract

Project Summary/Abstract
This is an application for a new Institutional T32 National Research Service Award at the University of
California, San Diego (UCSD) designed to train predoctoral and postdoctoral public health scientists devoted to
improving the health of aging women and men and understanding sex differences. The program focuses on
preparing researchers to conduct translational studies of factors affecting aging through the life course from
middle-age to end of life. Emphasis is placed on special concerns of aging women due to the unique
challenges they face across the life course. The program will be directed by Andrea Z. LaCroix, PhD, Professor
and Chief of Epidemiology, who is an internationally known senior “aging epidemiologist” with 10 years of
experience directing a prior NIA-funded T32 program. Her leadership partners are Co-Directors Linda McEvoy,
PhD, an established neuroscientist who studies risk factors for cognitive aging and brain imaging and Alison
Moore, MD, Chief of Geriatrics who has 20 years of NIH funding and has mentored more than 50 trainees. The
program is organized around 6 major research areas: 1) the study of sex and gender differences; 2) early life
predictors of later life outcomes (an area that transcends all focus areas); 3) menopause and midlife; 4) healthy
aging in mind and body; 5) chronic disease, multiple morbidity and survivorship; and 6) health disparities and
vulnerable populations. Predoctoral trainees will be recruited from two highly selective PhD programs in the
Department of Family Medicine and Public Health (FMPH): 1) The UCSD/San Diego State University Joint
Doctoral Program (JDP) in Public Health with tracks in Epidemiology, Global Health and Health Behavior; and
2) the PhD Program in Biostatistics. Postdoctoral scholars will be recruited from doctoral programs nationwide
in public health, preventive medicine, neurosciences, psychology, nutrition, physical therapy, exercise science,
demography, pharmacy, and other disciplines. The immediate goals of the T32 program are to ensure that
each trainee: 1) establishes a research program and significant body of published research in aging women’s
or men’s health and/or sex differences that is novel, significant and transformational as a foundation for future
grant applications; 2) develops their oral presentation skills; 3) acquires detailed knowledge and strategies for
success in setting and meeting career development milestones; 4) develops and submits a grant application
appropriate to their level of training; 5) completes training and applies knowledge in the responsible conduct of
research; and 6) becomes a valued and contributing member of the aging research community at UCSD and
nationally. The Program Directors will host a weekly T32 Workshop that includes structured training in:
mentorship; conducting aging research from conception of a novel and significant research question, to
incorporating rigorous methods for evaluating health disparit...

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10401895
- **Project number:** 5T32AG058529-04
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO
- **Principal Investigator:** Andrea Z. LaCroix
- **Activity code:** T32 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2022
- **Award amount:** $375,540
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2019-05-01 → 2024-04-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10401895

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10401895, Improving the Health of Aging Women and Men. (5T32AG058529-04). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10401895. Licensed CC0.

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