Research Training and Career Development Program
Overview
The Research Training and Career Development Program supports research training at the pre-doctoral, post-doctoral, and early investigator level of career development in areas relevant to the Division, such as research on treatment adherence and behavior change in patients with mental disorders. The primary goal of the office is to ensure that sufficient numbers of highly trained independent investigators will be available to address the complexities of health behaviors involved in mental illness. Support is provided through five types of research training and career development programs:
Institutional Training Program (T32)
Mentored Career Development Program (K99, K01, K08, K23, K25)
Individual Pre-doctoral and Post-doctoral Fellowships (F30, F31, F32)
Dissertation Research Grants to Increase Diversity (R36)
For a listing of Research Training Announcements, visit the NIMH page for Research Training, Career Development, and Related Programs.
Areas of Emphasis
- Clarify the impact of new biomedical technologies (e.g., microbicides, vaccines, rapid tests, genetic advances) on HIV risk behaviors.
- Foster dissemination, translation, and operational research on ways to implement and enhance long-term maintenance behavior change.
- Promote the global adoption of primary preventive interventions.
- Identify molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying HIV-associated dementia.
- Identify host and HIV viral genetics that render susceptibility or protection to neuronal dysfunction.
- Identify/characterize HIV-associated cognitive or motor dysfunction and assess it in the context of mental illness and HIV-associated comorbidities.
- Identifying the potent, modifiable mechanisms and processes linking mental and medical illnesses (comorbidity) and developing early stage interventions.
- Translating findings from basic behavioral research into processes to improve adherence to treatment, discourage harmful behaviors associated with mental disorders and physical disorders, and promote therapeutic alliances and help-seeking behaviors.
- Identifying effective strategies for reducing mental illness stigma and discrimination, and examining the mechanisms through which they work.
- Studying cognitive processes, decision-making, and other basic behavioral and social processes to clarify factors that influence the choice of treatment or mental health services, acceptance or denial of illness, and coping response to stigma.
- Developing behavioral strategies for assessing mental health functioning and disability.
- Using findings from basic behavioral and social sciences research to elucidate factors involved in mental health disparities.
Contact
Donna J. Mayo, Ph.D.
Program Chief
6001 Executive Boulevard, Room 6228, MSC 9619
301-443-1829, dmayo@mail.nih.gov
