title: The National Institute on Aging Health Disparities Research Framework.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Development of a new framework for the National Institute on Aging (NIA) to assess progress and opportunities toward stimulating and supporting rigorous research to address health disparities.
  
  
  METHODS
  Portfolio review of NIA's health disparities research portfolio to evaluate NIA's progress in addressing priority health disparities areas.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The NIA Health Disparities Research Framework highlights important factors for health disparities research related to aging, provides an organizing structure for tracking progress, stimulates opportunities to better delineate causal pathways and broadens the scope for malleable targets for intervention, aiding in our efforts to address health disparities in the aging population.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The promise of health disparities research depends largely on scientific rigor that builds on past findings and aggressively pursues new approaches. The NIA Health Disparities Framework provides a landscape for stimulating interdisciplinary approaches, evaluating research productivity and identifying opportunities for innovative health disparities research related to aging.
authors.affiliation: 1.National Institute on Aging of the National Institute of Health.
authors.forename: Carl V
authors.initials: CV
authors.lastname: Hill
authors.affiliation: 2. Center for Aging in Diverse Communities at the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.
authors.forename: Eliseo J
authors.initials: EJ
authors.lastname: Pérez-Stable
authors.affiliation: 3. American Psychological Association.
authors.forename: Norman A
authors.initials: NA
authors.lastname: Anderson
authors.affiliation: 1.National Institute on Aging of the National Institute of Health.
authors.forename: Marie A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Bernard
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000375:Aging; D006302:Health Services Research / Q000379:methods*; D006299:Health Services for the Aged; D054625:Healthcare Disparities; D006801:Humans; D054561:National Institute on Aging (U.S.) / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014481:United States
keywords: Aging; Health Disparities