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Edward R. Roybal Centers for Translation Research in the Behavioral and Social Sciences of Aging

The NIA Division of Behavioral and Social Research currently supports thirteen Roybal Centers. The Roybal Centers are intended to stimulate broadly based multidisciplinary research that improves the health, wellbeing, and productivity of older adults. The thirteen Roybal Centers focus on the following topics: health and mobility, disease and pain management, decision making and behavior change, and better data, measurement, and forecasting.

The Roybal Centers are credited with building a research infrastructure that: (1) Enhances the productivity of relevant basic research and existing projects; (2) Accelerates the development of new ideas or applications (including successful grant funding from other sponsors); (3) Facilitates collaborations among academic researchers and commercial interests and recruitment of new researchers to aging and/or translational research; (4) Provides a context for assembling multidisciplinary teams to solve practical problems.

The currently-funded Roybal Centers are:

Principal Investigator (PI)	Center	PI Address
Ball, Karlene K.	Center for Translational Research on Aging and Mobility	University of Alabama at Birmingham PSYCH/109 Holley-Mears Building 924 19th Street South Birmingham, AL 352942100
Callahan, Christopher M.	Translation Research on Chronic Disease Self-Management	Indiana University - Purdue University at Indianapolis Regenstrief Institute Inc. Department of Medicine 410 West 10th Street, Suite 2000 Indianapolis, IN 46202
Christakis, Nicholas A.	Roybal Center for Translational Research on Aging	Harvard University Harvard Medical School Health Care Policy 180 Longwood Avenue Boston, MA 02115
Deaton, Angus S.	Princeton Center for Research on Experience and Wellbeing	Princeton University Office of Population Research, 345 Wallace Hall Princeton, NJ 08544
Garber, Alan M.	Center on Advancing Decision Making in Aging (CADMA)	Stanford University School of Medicine Department of Medicine-PCOR 117 Encina Commons Center for Primary Care-Outcome Research Stanford, CA 943056019
Goldman, Dana P.	Roybal Center for Health Policy Simulation	RAND Corporation 1776 Main Street Santa Monica, CA 90407
Hughes, Susan L.	Midwest Roybal Center for Health Promotion	University of Illinois Chicago Institute for Health Research & Policy 1747 West Roosevelt Road Room 558, MC 275 Chicago, IL 60608
Kapteyn, Arie	RAND Roybal Center for Finanical Decision Making	RAND Corporation 1776 Main Street Santa Monica, CA 904013208
Kaye, Jeffrey A.	Oregon Roybal Center for Translational Research on Aging	Oregon Health Science University Department of Neurology 3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Road Layton Aging Center, CR 131 Portland, OR 972393098
Laibson, David I.	Behavior Change in Health and Saving	National Bureau of Economic Research Harvard University Department of Economics, Littauer M-14 Cambridge, MA 02138
Reid, Manney Carrington	Improving the Management of Pain in Later Life	Weill Medical College of Cornell University Department of Medicine 1300 York Avenue, Box 39 Cornell University New York, NY 10021
Teri, Linda	Northwest Roybal Center	University of Washington Northwest Research Group on Aging 9709 NE 3rd Avenue NE, Suite 507 Seattle, WA 98115-2053
Volpp, Kevin G.	PENN CMU Roybal Center on Behavioral Economics and Health	University of Pennsylvania Department of Medicine 1232 Blockley, 6021 Blockley Hall Philadelphia, PA 19104

A September 2009 publication entitled “Research Highlights from the Edward R. Roybal Centers for Translation Research in Behavioral and Social Sciences of Aging” describes this Center program in more detail and will be available via a link from this page as soon as possible.

NIA Staff Contact:

Georgeanne E. Patmios
Division of Behavioral and Social Research
National Institute on Aging
National Institutes of Health
7201 Wisconsin Avenue, #533
Bethesda, MD 20892-9205
Phone: (301) 402-4156
Fax: (301) 402-0051
Email: PatmiosG@nia.nih.gov

Page last updated Oct 21, 2009