# The Center for Health Improvement of Minority Elderly

> **NIH NIH P30** · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · 2023 · $590,036

## Abstract

Project Summary Overall Component
UCLA Center for Health Improvement for Minority Elders (CHIME) proposes continuation of a research and
mentoring program continuously funded in 2002, that will contribute to the reduction in health disparities for
minority elders by training minority faculty who will advance their careers by conducting minority aging
research. We propose to continue our theme of “Developing, Adapting and Evaluating Interventions to
Improve the Health of Minority Elders”, which incorporates elements of two of RFA-AG-23-026 research
objectives: i) identify and develop solutions to eliminate health disparities and health inequities in the growing
population of older adults, and ii) improve the health and well-being of older adults. CHIME has 6 specific aims:
1) to develop the research infrastructure needed to improve the health of minority elders through the
development, implementation, and evaluation of community and health system interventions designed to
mitigate health disparities which incorporates two of NIA's areas of scientific focus: identify and develop
solutions to eliminate health disparities and health inequities in the growing population of older adults, and
improve the health and well-being of older adults; 2) to conduct rigorous analyses of existing data sets to
identify sociocultural factors, health care factors, and behavioral and biological level correlates of health
disparities to inform the design of interventions or health policies to mitigate health disparities; 3) to contribute
to the development, evaluation, and dissemination of measures that can be used to track health outcomes or
measure critical social, behavioral, and economic predictors of the health and the health-care of minority
elders; 4) to build on CHIME’s 20-year track record of successful academic advancement of minority faculty
through mentorship and support of their conduct of independent research on the health of minority elders; 5) to
broaden both existing and new partnerships with communities to expand the pool of potential minority research
participants and the beneficiaries of the findings from both the research conducted under the auspices of
CHIME and other funded research. 6) Continue our long-standing and highly successful partnership and
collaboration with Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science (CDU), a HBCU, while also developing
an additional partnership and collaboration with the University of California at Riverside (UCR), a Hispanic
Serving Institution (HSI) with expertise in training Hispanic students and those from other under-represented
groups. CHIME will address these aims through activities that are organized in a Leadership and
Administration Core (LAC), a Research Education Component (REC), an Analysis Core (AnC), and a
Community Liaison and Recruitment Core (CLRC). The LAC and REC in collaboration with the External
Advisory Group will select pilot studies and organize the mentorship and development of RCMAR ...

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10729986
- **Project number:** 2P30AG021684-21
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES
- **Principal Investigator:** OBIDIUGWU KENRIK DURU
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2023
- **Award amount:** $590,036
- **Award type:** 2
- **Project period:** 2002-09-30 → 2028-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10729986

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10729986, The Center for Health Improvement of Minority Elderly (2P30AG021684-21). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10729986. Licensed CC0.

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