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Advancing cross-national research on aging and cognitive function: English/Spanish courses with the Mexican Health and Aging Study and HRS/HCAP global partner studies

Award Number: R25AG095799
ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING
OPDIV: NIH
AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY
AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 09/20/2025
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 05/31/2030

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Advancing cross-national research on aging and cognitive function: English/Spanish courses with the Mexican Health and Aging Study and HRS/HCAP global partner studies - There are promising prospects to advance global research on ADRD as more data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) and the Harmonized Cognitive Assessment Protocol (HCAP) family of studies have become available particularly from low-middle-income countries. The research community has identified the need to train more scientists in the use of the existing datasets to study the social, behavioral, cultural, and institutional aspects of cognitive function and trajectories of ADRD over the life course with a cross-national approach. The language of training is a major barrier to building capacity in low-middle-income countries, however, and U.S. investigators need more interaction with investigators to integrate the global context from which the cross-national research data originates and to build rich multinational research collaborations. The proposed project seeks to train scientists at the advanced-doctoral, postdoctoral, and junior investigator level by improving these skills, with a focus on the U.S. and the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean. We propose a program of five annual courses. Each year new scholars will commit to an integrated course of in-person and online team activities. We have the following Specific Aims: (1) Build additional capacity to conduct research on AD/ADRD and related risk and protective factors with a cross-national approach; (2) Create opportunities for participants to interact with each other and faculty with common research interests using a cross-national perspective. (3) Advance research on cognitive function and dementia (AD/ADRD) using a cross-national approach. Each annual course will include three phases: a) five-day workshop in-person, b) six-month regular online interactions of writing groups that are launched in the workshop, and c) two-day conference in-person to present results. The 5-day in-person workshop will be offered each year alternating in the U.S. (in English) and in Mexico (in Spanish), to maximize participation of scholars from the countries where the data is collected, and foster collaborations between researchers based in the U.S. and abroad. Evaluation will be included at each of the three phases. The program builds upon considerable experience, as the proposed team of bilingual faculty and support staff are proficient conducting research workshops in-person and online and organizing international conferences around the Mexican Health and Aging Study (MHAS), one of the HRS/HCAP studies with 20+ years of longitudinal follow-up and international activities in Latin America and the Caribbean. The team has worked in multinational groups developing cross-national research as well. The result will be an expanding group of scholars fluent in the skills needed to formulate and test research hypotheses with cross-national comparisons; trained in the use of the relevant data sources; and active in a lively and productive collaborative global network of scholars working in these topics using the growing network of HRS/HCAP databases and other associated context-specific data sources.


Issue Date FY	Funding FY	Legal Entity Name	Legal Entity Address	Legal Entity City	Legal Entity State	Legal Entity Zip Code	Legal Entity COUNTY	Legal Entity COUNTRY	Assistance Listing	Award Code	Budget Year	Action Date	Action Type	Action Amount

Issue Date FY: 2026 ( Subtotal = $366,354 )
2026	2026	THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO	7703 FLOYD CURL DR	SAN ANTONIO	TX	78229	BEXAR	USA	Aging Research	001	2	6/23/2026	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$366,354
2026	2025	THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO	7703 FLOYD CURL DR	SAN ANTONIO	TX	78229	BEXAR	USA	Aging Research	000	1	6/1/2026	NEW	$0
														Subtotal = $366,354

Issue Date FY: 2025 ( Subtotal = $372,904 )
2025	2025	THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO	7703 FLOYD CURL DR	SAN ANTONIO	TX	78229	BEXAR	USA	Aging Research	000	1	9/15/2025	NEW	$372,904
														Subtotal = $372,904

Grand Total All Awards = $739,258

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Advancing cross-national research on aging and cognitive function: English/Spanish courses with the Mexican Health and Aging Study and HRS/HCAP global partner studies

Award Number: R25AG095799

ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING

OPDIV: NIH

AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY

AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 09/20/2025

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 05/31/2030

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