The Texas Resource Center on Minority Aging Research

The NIA/RCMAR Workshop at GSA: Strategies for Successful Recruitment and Retention of Minority Elders is November 13, 2019. In this workshop, participants will learn strategies for Internet-based, in-person, and print-based recruitment and discuss approaches to study design and implementation that maximize retention of minority elder study participants. NIA representatives will share the Institute's national strategy of recruitment, together with recently developed recruitment tools.

The Third Annual Conference on Migration and Health December 9-10 is designed to provide a platform for constructive policy dialogue among relevant stakeholders. Those include immigrants and organizations representing migrants, law and policy makers, government leaders, health care professionals, the faith community, health system administrators, academicians, researchers, community-based service providers, and international and multilateral organization representatives.

RCMAR Scholar and Associate Professor Monique Pappadis, MEd, PhD has been selected by the School of Health Professions Dean's Office to attend the 2020 Teaching Professor Annual Conference.  

Announcing the first public release of data from the Healthy Cognitive Aging Project (HCAP), a nationally representative study that will help shed light on how and when cognitive decline progresses in older adults. Longitudinal studies like the MHAS Cognitive Aging Ancillary Study (Mex-Cog), part of the HCAP, are important in providing prospective data on complex diseases.