# Leadership and Administrative Core

> **NIH NIH P30** · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO · 2024 · $261,477

## Abstract

Abstract Leadership and Administrative Core (LAC)
We propose to establish the Center for Health Equity in Cognitive Aging – Joining Population Science
and Health Promotion (CHECA) at University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) that will provide infrastructure to
develop and implement programs to enhance health equity in a diverse community of adults with or at risk for
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and AD-related dementias (ADRD) and their care partners. The Leadership and
Administrative Core (LAC) will be central to the successful operations of the CHECA center. The LAC will
work towards developing and maintaining a strategic vision for the CHECA related to its three central
themes to ensure diversity in the work force for AD/ADRD related behavioral and social sciences research
and to develop research and mentoring infrastructure to promote uncompromised excellence in research to
facilitate significant scientific advances in priority areas identified by the center (Aim 1). LAC will also
manage a distinguished Executive Committee that will oversee the functioning of the Center and assist the
co-PI’s in making scientific and administrative decisions relating to the Center (Aim 2). The LAC will be
responsible to assemble an External Advisory Committee to advise the Center on its REC (Aim 3) and
implement a systematic method, using the Executive and External Advisory Committee members and
appointed review panel, to develop, identify, review, and monitor pilot projects (Aim 4). LAC will also
monitor all pilot projects, their findings and impact in annual Center progress reports that will be submitted
to NIA (Aim 5). Lastly, LAC will facilitate the development of networks among researchers, commercial
interests, community interests and other entities to support translation activities (Aim 6) and work to
increase the outreach of the Center’s activities with private sector/commercial interests, non-profit
organizations, research institutions, and government agencies, as appropriate (Aim 7). The LAC will be co-
led by Naoko Muramatsu, PhD a population science researcher and Tanvi Bhatt PhD, has expertise with
health promotion and translation and their leadership experience and expertise are complementary, yet
scientifically unique and highly suited for conducting activities of the LAC. The LAC will establish the Executive
Committee, which will be comprised of LAC co-leads, Senior Collaborators (Dr. Susan Hughes, Dr. Benjamin
Shaw, Dr. Andrew Boyd), and leads of the REC (Dr. Ulf Bronas, Dr. Olu Ajilore), AnC (Dr. Michael Berbaum)
and CLRC (Dr. David Marquez and Dr. Uchechi Mitchell). LAC will enroll key leaders/directors of the policy,
academic, and practice communities within the Chicagoland to the External Advisory Committee.
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## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10907036
- **Project number:** 5P30AG083255-02
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO
- **Principal Investigator:** NAOKO MURAMATSU
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2024
- **Award amount:** $261,477
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2023-08-15 → 2028-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10907036

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10907036, Leadership and Administrative Core (5P30AG083255-02). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-26 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10907036. Licensed CC0.

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