GSA Strategic Plan

Objectives:

• Position GSA as a premier advocate, leading publisher, and source of evidence-based research on aging.
• Ensure journals and GSA Annual Scientific Meeting (ASM) programming feature scholarship addressing social justice, health equity, diversity, inclusion, and accessibility.
• Improve accessibility and affordability of ASM, journals, and other offerings via new funding sources and strategies.
• Promote more interdisciplinary research collaboration across sections, interest groups, and fields.
• Assess impact and implications of generative AI on GSA member research and Society operations. Leverage new technology for benefit of our members and the Society.

Objectives:

• Continually evaluate, explore, and implement new strategies to improve membership retention and recruitment.
• Develop and refine opportunities for expanded member engagement.
• Broaden reach in international markets with enhanced opportunities for GSA engagement.
• Develop a strategy for enhancing relationships with international aging organizations.
• Provide leadership development and mentorship opportunities to develop the next generation of gerontological researchers.

Objectives:

• Foster the National Center to Reframe Aging’s leadership role and empower GSA members to be authoritative and respected voices on aging issues applying the principles of reframing aging.
• Foster partnerships with consumer-oriented organizations, media outlets, and public-facing education platforms to educate on aging across the life course.
• Expand the GSA media resource/speakers bureau of member experts to strengthen the GSA position as a premier resource for the public on age-related issues.
• Ensure GSA policy and advocacy engagement continues to have a prominent voice on relevant aging issues.

Objectives:

• Ensure rich diversity of GSA membership, staff, board, and leadership is maintained and strengthened.
• Continue GSA’s established diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) policies and practices to challenge all manifestations of structural racism.
• Institutionalize GSA’s role as home to the Resource Centers for Minority Aging Research (RCMAR) National Coordinating Center and identify additional ways that GSA can contribute to the success of the RCMAR program.
• Expand awareness of aging as an element of DEIA and determine ways to support members facing challenging contexts and marginalization.
• On an ongoing basis, reframe and reinforce the inclusiveness of the specialty of geriatrics as part of the larger field of gerontology.

Objectives:

• Develop strategies to increase opportunities for programming and funding for gerontological education within higher education.
• Encourage educational institutions to integrate gerontology/geriatrics into related fields and programs.
• Establish GSA as the source of gerontological educational standards and advocacy by employing the Academy for Gerontology in Higher Education standards and guidelines for gerontological education.
• Promote the GSA Age Inclusivity in Higher Education model and Ageism First Aid.
• Enhance the understanding of gerontological education, teaching, and accreditation across all member groups.