University of Minnesota School of Public Health Professor Richard MacLehose received a Global Engagement Grant award to support his longstanding research collaboration with Tibetan Buddhist monasteries in India. With the award, MacLehose and his research team aim to further explore opportunities to collaborate on healthy aging research.
Called the Lifestyle Assessment and Monastic Aging Study (LAMAS) Engagement Project, the study is co-led by Dr. MacLehose and Tenzin Namdul, assistant professor at the UMN Center for Spirituality & Healing.
In addition to continuing to work with residents of the six existing monasteries, the grant allows the researchers to expand their scope to five additional monasteries—establishing the groundwork for a future R01 grant submission to work with all 11 monasteries.
