# Center for Improving Care Delivery for the Aging (CICADA)

> **NIH NIH P30** · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · 2024 · $669,263

## Abstract

Project Summary – Overall
Receiving high-quality, equitable, accessible, affordable, and well-coordinated health care is fundamental to
the health, wellbeing, function, and independence of older adults, but the current U.S. health care system is not
organized to provide this care. Services are often inaccessible or unaffordable, with persistent structural
barriers that perpetuate unequal access. There is a critical need to grow and support a well-trained scientific
workforce to address these shortcomings and disseminate findings effectively. The Center for Improving
Care Delivery for the Aging (CICADA), a Resource Center for Minority Aging Research (RCMAR) at the
University of Pennsylvania (Penn), is dedicated to these objectives.
In its first funding period, CICADA succeeded in developing a robust learning and longitudinal mentoring
environment for 15 RCMAR Scientists from underrepresented and minoritized backgrounds. Our focus has
been on health services research (HSR), an interdisciplinary scientific field that studies the most effective ways
to organize, manage, finance, and deliver high-quality care; reduce medical errors; and improve health equity.
HSR spans the investigation and discovery of gaps in evidence-based care delivery, the development of
evidence-based interventions to address those gaps, and the study of factors that influence and promote the
uptake and sustainment of evidence-based treatments into routine practice via implementation science. Taken
together, HSR approaches strive to ensure that all aging adults receive high-quality, equitable, evidence-
supported health care and maintain or improve their health and wellbeing as they age.
HSR is particularly in need of concerted efforts to increase representation in its workforce. This has scientific
and clinical costs, as underrepresented and minoritized researchers bring essential perspectives to help
understand and address the sociocultural, economic, political, and environmental determinants of racial and
ethnic inequities in health and health care. Developing a population-representative cadre of researchers and
leaders who can address the challenges and inequities facing aging populations is an absolute priority.
Based in Penn’s Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics (LDI), a cooperative venture that spans all 12
schools and centers at Penn, CICADA has offered exceptional training in quantitative and econometric
methods and supported the next generation of researchers and mentors. In recognition of ongoing needs in the
field, our renewal application seeks to continue and build upon these activities. The overall Specific Aims for
CICADA are: (1) To enhance the diversity of the aging-focused research workforce by mentoring promising
scientists from underrepresented and minoritized groups for careers dedicated to improving health care
delivery and health equity for older adults; and (2) to develop and sustain infrastructure to promote science that
improves the health, well...

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10912773
- **Project number:** 5P30AG059302-07
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
- **Principal Investigator:** Meghan Brooks Lane-Fall
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2024
- **Award amount:** $669,263
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2018-09-15 → 2028-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10912773

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10912773, Center for Improving Care Delivery for the Aging (CICADA) (5P30AG059302-07). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10912773. Licensed CC0.

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