NIA profiles Hartford Building Academic Geriatric Nursing Capacity (BAGNC) Director, Dr. J Taylor Ha
After two decades at the National Institute on Aging, in January 2012, Dr. J Taylor Harden joined as administrator of the Hartford-supported Building Academic Geriatric Nursing Capacity Initiative where she is working with 10 national centers of geriatric nursing excellence and pre- and post-doctoral students in nursing who are pursuing research on aging and older adults. Looking back at her years with the NIA, Dr. Harden singles out an overarching development in gerontology: the enhanced visibility of minority aging research as an independent and emerging field of investigation. View the full article on the NIA Web site here.
After receiving her doctorate, J Taylor Harden, Ph.D., R.N., F.A.A.N., took part in NIA’s Summer Institute on Aging Research, spending a week focused on leading-edge topics in aging and research design for special populations. Two decades later, at the end of 2011, Dr. Harden retired as NIA’s Assistant to the Director for Special Populations, just as the Summer Institute reached the quarter-century mark.
“One of the highlights of my career was seeing the Summer Institute turn 25,” said Dr. Harden, who led the program during her tenure at NIA from 1997 to 2011.
Looking back at those years, Dr. Harden singles out an overarching development in gerontology: the enhanced visibility of minority aging research as an independent and emerging field of investigation.
The flourishing Summer Institute, which trained and mentored hundreds of new and diverse researchers since it began in 1986, has contributed to that enhanced visibility. Other programs also have changed the research landscape, Dr. Harden said, perhaps most notably the Resource Centers for Minority Aging Research (RCMARs), which NIA sponsors at six academic centers around the country. Other funding and resources have also grown, and minority aging research is now an established area of research with a growing cadre of investigators.
View the full article on the NIA Web site here.
