Core A: Admin Core

Core A. Administrative and Research Support Core PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT The Administrative and Research Support Core (A) will provide direction and support for all activities of the Duke Center for Population Health and Aging (CPHA), which, along with the Duke Population Research Center (DPRC), anchor the Duke University Population Research Institute (DUPRI), which itself is organizationally located within the Social Science Research Institute (SSRI) at Duke. The Center is led by a Director and an Executive Committee with the support of an Advisory Committee. The primary goal of the Administrative Core is to support the activities of CPHA and coordinate collaboration among CPHA scholars and affiliates (together, “associates”). Core A will provide general administrative support and technical and research resources to meet proposed objectives across all cores, with backup support from SSRI staff, facilities, and services. Core A is designed to give CPHA associates the breadth and depth of administrative and research support required to motivate and sustain innovative research and dissemination activities produced by cores B, C, and D. To that end, CPHA shares three full-time staff members with DPRC within DUPRI, including a Director of Administration and Research Development, a Director of Computational Resources, and a Program Coordinator. These staff members assist the PI and center associates in achieving the aims of the center, including collection and preparation of materials for disseminating research findings and activities to the scientific and other communities including the public, as well as for meeting internal and external reporting requirements (i.e., to SSRI, Duke, the Association of Population Centers, the P30 Coordinating Center, and NIA). Because the staff are shared across the constituent centers that form DUPRI, they coordinate administrative functions between centers, yielding an economy of scale that frees up resources within each constituent center for greater training and mentoring opportunities and research innovation than could be provided by a single center.