Examples of specific areas covered are listed below:

• Behavioral genetics and heritability
• Epidemiology in the areas of cancer, chronic conditions, communicable diseases, conditions related to aging, reproductive health, mental health, and substance abuse disorders
• Studies to test the efficacy of interventions on the prevention of health risk behaviors across the lifespan
• Population-based studies of health promotion and environmental change
• Techniques and methodologies that address statistical and mathematical problems in population-based studies
• Examination of the interaction of socioenvironmental factors with individual factors
• Interrelationships of sociocultural factors and biomedical processes
• Studies of health services and service delivery systems

Shared Interests

With F08 (Genomics, Genetics, DNA Replication and Gene Expression): Fellowship applications with a primary focus on fundamental genetics or on genetic etiology of disease may be reviewed by F08.  Fellowship applications with a primary focus on genetics as a risk factor in epidemiologic studies involving human populations or behavioral genetic studies may be reviewed by F16.

With F11 (Psychosocial and Developmental Processes, Personality, and Behavior): Fellowship applications that emphasize the individual or interpersonal bases of social, psychological or cultural conditions and processes may be assigned to F11. Applications that emphasize the demographic, community, or epidemiological contexts of social, psychological or cultural conditions and processes may be assigned to F16. These may also include behavioral medicine approaches on the individual level.

With F12B (Psychopathology, Developmental Disabilities, Stress and Aging):  Fellowship applications that focus on the individual level of analysis in child and adult psychopathology, behavioral and developmental disabilities and disorders of aging may be appropriate for F12B.  Fellowship applications in which the focus is on social or environmental levels of analysis or epidemiological studies of risk and protective factors may be appropriate for F16.

With organ system and disease fellowships review groups:  Fellowship applications that involve population-based, epidemiologic or behavioral studies of diseases, risks or protective factors, or studies of health care delivery systems would be appropriate for F16. Fellowship applications that emphasize underlying mechanisms of disease states or the physiology or pathophysiology of organ systems would be appropriate for the fellowship study sections in IRGs dedicated to specific organ systems or diseases.