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We support faculty in health disparities and aging research through high-quality training, innovative projects, community collaboration, culturally sensitive methods, and broad dissemination of findings.

The Deep South Resource Center for Minority Aging Research (RCMAR) is a collaborative partnership of four unique, Southern institutions with complementary strengths: Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM), Tuskegee University (TU), University of Alabama (UA), and the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB).

By unifying our researchers, our top aims are to mentor sustained research careers; to enrich the scientific workforce conducting research on the health of older persons; and to advance scientific knowledge to reduce health disparities. In doing so, we focus on health problems that are particularly prevalent among older African Americans in both rural and urban settings.

Over almost 2 decades of funding from the National Institute on Aging (NIA), we have provided career development support for more than a hundred investigators. The RCMAR will continue to advance the science of health disparities and aging through collaborative research involving all core investigators and scientists conducting new research and secondary data analyses supported by core funds, pilot grants and other external grants..

Raegan W. Durant, MD, MPH
Director, Deep South Resource Center for Minority Aging Research (RCMAR)
Watch Dr. Durant share how the Deep South RCMAR has cultivated and funded 99 young scientists in aging and health disparities research, aiming to leave a lasting legacy.