# Pilot Core

> **NIH NIH P30** · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · 2024 · $263,556

## Abstract

ABSTRACT
The Pilot Core will support early to mid-stage research projects to identify, develop, adapt, and evaluate
innovative behavioral interventions related to health and aging. Implementing partners often lack the
expertise, funding, and/or academic team to conduct rigorous evaluations. This Core will address these
common barriers by identifying new areas of study, providing pilot grants to promising projects, supporting
those projects throughout their design and implementation, and ultimately creating a sustained research
agenda to advance the fields of aging and economics to improve health care delivery and health outcomes for
midlife and older people. It will complement and leverage the existing and ongoing related activities of the
Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab North America (J-PAL North America), located at MIT. This Core will
focus on several aims.
First, this core will identify new opportunities to develop and test evidence-informed behavioral interventions
related to health and aging. We will identify innovative, promising behavioral interventions geared towards
improving the health of an aging population that are suitable candidates for low-cost randomized controlled
trials (RCTs). Second, this core will provide pilot funding through a formalized review process for trials of
behavioral interventions related to aging. This core will provide small pilot grants to catalyze early project
activities and provide an early-stage project the resources to raise additional funding. Third, this core will
support funded pilots from the review process through implementation. Researchers in the J-PAL network as
well as others called on to provide their expertise will provide mentorship and feedback to pilot investigators as
they test and iterate on their intervention and study designs. Finally, this core will create a sustained
translational behavioral intervention development program to advance the evidence base in the fields of aging
and behavioral economics. Through this Core’s continued involvement with the funded pilot projects from
Stage I to Stage IV, we aim to spur significant advancements in understanding which behavioral mechanisms
and interventions work to improve the health of older adults.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10891450
- **Project number:** 5P30AG064190-05
- **Recipient organization:** MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
- **Principal Investigator:** Amy N. Finkelstein
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2024
- **Award amount:** $263,556
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2020-07-15 → 2026-05-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10891450

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10891450, Pilot Core (5P30AG064190-05). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10891450. Licensed CC0.

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