# Massachusetts Center for Alzheimer and dEmeNtia behaVIoral reSearch In minOrity agiNg (Mass-ENVISION)

> **NIH NIH P30** · MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL · 2024 · $695,521

## Abstract

Massachusetts Center for Alzheimer and dEmeNtia behaVIoral reSearch In minOrity agiNg (Mass-ENVISION) is a
proposed new Alzheimer's-related Resource Centers for Minority Aging Research (AD/ADRD RCMAR) that will address
the critical need for mentored research training for underrepresented in medicine (UiM) scientists in the development,
testing, and implementation of behavioral interventions across hospital and community settings, for racial and ethnic
minority older adults with Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Disorders (ADRD) and their informal care partners. There is a
dearth of evidence-based behavioral interventions to support minority older persons with ADRD, their informal care
partners, and dyads, as well as a critical gap in the number of UiM scientists poised to mitigate this shortage. To address
these research and resource gaps, Mass-ENVISION will identify UiM scientists who are committed to ADRD behavioral
health and interventions research and will support training and development of independent UiM scientists poised to
eliminate health disparities and inequities in ADRD behavioral health. Further, Mass-ENVISION would become the only
RCMAR to serve the entire New England region, which is in critical need of this resource. Mass-ENVISION, a collaboration
of Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), Boston University (BU) and Cambridge Health Alliance and their medical
school affiliations (Harvard Medical School, BU School of Medicine), university-affiliated hospitals, other Boston and MA-
area research centers, satellite hospitals and community clinics, will provide RCMAR Scientists with interdisciplinary,
comprehensive training and sustained and tailored mentoring in ADRD behavioral health and interventions research using
the revised NIH Stage Model, the Science of Behavior Change, prevention approaches under the Centers for Disease Control
disease stage-based (i.e., primary, secondary, tertiary) and the National Academy of Medicine target-based (indicated,
selective, universal) frameworks, and the NIA Health Disparities Research Framework. Mass-ENVISION will collaborate
closely with other NIA-funded Centers and their investigators, including the Massachusetts Alzheimer’s Disease Research
Center (MADRC), Boston University ADRC (BU-ADRC) and Boston Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence
Center, to translate biological and epidemiological advances as mechanistic targets for ADRD behavioral interventions.
Mass-ENVISION will be led by a UiM PI, Dr. Okereke (Director, MGH Geriatric Psychiatry and MGH Psychiatry Center
for Racial Equity and Justice), with strong collaborative track records with team members and Core Leads/Co-Leads, who
are also from diverse and UiM backgrounds (e.g., Black, Asian, Latino, first generation at college) and have complementary
expertise in ADRD, health disparities and health equity research, social and behavioral health, behavioral interventions,
implementation science, and interdisciplinary science. Mass-ENVIS...

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10909361
- **Project number:** 5P30AG083196-02
- **Recipient organization:** MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL
- **Principal Investigator:** Olivia Ifeoma Okereke
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2024
- **Award amount:** $695,521
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2023-09-01 → 2028-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10909361

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10909361, Massachusetts Center for Alzheimer and dEmeNtia behaVIoral reSearch In minOrity agiNg (Mass-ENVISION) (5P30AG083196-02). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10909361. Licensed CC0.

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