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The Alicia and Yaya Initiative in Global Aging Research is a University of Maryland Graduate School program of research, service, and teaching in the fields of gerontology and aging. Leveraging collaborations with the University of Costa Rica (UCR) and the InterAmerican Center for Global Health (CISG), the Initiative provides support to UMB Graduate School and UCR students and scholars to study and learn together through fellowships, collaborative learning opportunities, symposia, seed funding, and other means of financial support.
The goal of the Alicia and Yaya Initiative in Global Aging Research is to support international, comparative, and bidirectional approaches to aging research with an emphasis on developing scholars who will take aging research into the future, which it does through the Alicia and Yaya Fellowship Program and the Alicia and Yaya Grant Funding Program.