NIH gives $3.7M to Rutgers and Michigan State to explore effects of ‘structural racism’ on aging
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded nearly $4 million to the two public universities to explore the effects of ‘structural racism’ on cognitive aging.
Rutgers Associate Professor Danielle Beatty Moody and MSU Assistant Professor Richard Sadler will lead the team of researchers.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded nearly $4 million to two public universities to explore the effects of “structural racism” on cognitive aging.
Michigan State University (MSU) in East Lansing and Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey both received a $3.7 million, five-year grant from the NIH’s National Institute of Aging. Rutgers Associate Professor Danielle Beatty Moody and MSU Assistant Professor Richard Sadler will lead the team of researchers.
“The researchers said this examination is essential for developing appropriate strategies to address racial inequities in accelerated aging, particularly in communities where Black Americans live and desire to age in place,” a Sept. 20 press release from the Rutgers School of Social Work states.
“Beatty Moody and Sadler shared that lifetime exposure to historical, enduring, and contemporary structural racism in one’s neighborhood across the life course promotes greater cognitive and functional declines and increased frailty among adults, particularly for Black Americans,” the statement continues.
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