The Analysis Core supports the activities of the Deep South RCMAR in the areas of measurement and secondary data analysis.

There continues to remain the need for culturally informed and scientifically valid measurement tools for research regarding African Americans in both urban and rural settings. Similarly, there is a need for secondary data analysis to assist in the creation of interventions that address health disparities related to age in the South.

In response to these needs, Core D (Analysis Core-AnC) will leverage existing expertise, data resources and infrastructure at our four partnering institutions to enhance the capacity of the Deep South RCMAR to conduct research in the areas of measurement and secondary data analysis.

Core Aims

            1. Identify, catalog, and distribute culturally informed and scientifically valid
                epidemiological, behavioral and social measurement tools with a focus on
                older African Americans in rural settings.
            2. Conduct secondary data analyses using sociobehavioral, economic, clinical,
                and genetic data with the goal of informing the development and evaluation
                of interventions to address health disparities among older African Americans
                in the Deep South.
            3. Work collaboratively with the Investigator Development Core and the
                Community Liaison Core to train and mentor scholars in measurement 
                techniques and the analysis of secondary data.
            4. Work collaboratively with the Investigator Development Core to facilitate
                correlation of scholars with methodological, biostatistical and analytical resources.
            5. Collaborate with the RCMAR Coordinating Center in the dissemination of culturally
                informed measures and secondary data analysis techniques relevant to minority
                aging.

Key Personnel

Olivio J. Clay, PhD - Core Director
Associate Professor of Psychology
Department of Psychology 
College of Arts and Sciences
University of Alabama at Birmingham

Virginia Howard, PhD - Core Co-Director
Distinguished Professor of Epidemiology 
School of Public Health
University of Alabama at Birmingham

Other Personnel

Raegan W. Durant, MD, MPH, UAB PI
Robert Weech-Maldonado, PhD, UAB
Ann Smith, MPH, UAB Training Program Director
Peter Baltrus, PhD, MSM
D. Leann Long, PhD, UAB
Stephen Sodeke, PhD, TU
Martha Crowther, PhD, UA