Administrative Core

OTHER PROJECT INFORMATION – Project Summary/Abstract Administrative Core (Core A) The administrative core will provide organizational leadership to the Center consortium, and thereby integrate the many component aspects of the consortium into a unified programmatic whole. One responsibility of the core is intellectual leadership and governance. Specifically, the administrative core manages systems that assure consortium leadership that is a collaboration of the NBER co-PIs and NIA staff and informed by the scientific community and an External Advisory Panel. A second responsibility is centralized administrative, communication, and research support. The many administrative and coordinating functions of the core include managing a Center website for sharing activities, events, resources, and products; monitoring and compiling information about the activities and products of the various projects; managing finances and personnel; sharing program information both internally and publicly; coordinating shared resources; and linking researchers to the training opportunities, data resources, technical expertise, and dissemination mechanisms available through the Center. A third activity is establishing and managing an early career scholars' program. As the organizational hub for the consortium, the administrative core is also directly involved in supporting the research project solicitation and selection processes of the research project core, the outreach and convening activities of the stakeholder engagement core, and the dissemination and meeting activities of the translation core. The administrative core also administers a program tracking plan that monitors progress on the clearly specified short-term and long-term metrics and milestones associated with each Core as well as the productivity metrics of research projects conducted under the companion program announcement.