NIH R25: Short Courses on Innovative Methodologies and Approaches in the Behavioral and Social Sciences
The NIH Research Education Program (R25) supports research educational activities that complement other formal training programs in the mission areas of the NIH Institutes and Centers. The overarching goals of the NIH R25 program are to: (1) complement and/or enhance the training of a workforce to meet the nation’s biomedical, behavioral and clinical research needs; (2) encourage individuals from diverse backgrounds, including those from groups underrepresented in the biomedical and behavioral sciences, to pursue further studies or careers in research; (3) help recruit individuals with specific specialty or disciplinary backgrounds to research careers in biomedical, behavioral and clinical sciences; and (4) foster a better understanding of biomedical, behavioral and clinical research and its implications.
The overarching goal of this R25 program is to support educational activities that complement and/or enhance the training of a workforce to meet the nation’s biomedical, behavioral and clinical research needs.
To accomplish the stated over-arching goal, this FOA will support creative educational activities with a primary focus on:
- Courses for Skills Development: For example, advanced courses in a specific discipline or research area, clinical procedures for research, or specialized research techniques.
- This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) is to support courses for skills development in cross-cutting methodologies and analytics that are needed to advance behavioral and social sciences research (BSSR) but are not well addressed by existing educational programs widely available to the BSSR community. A definition of BSSR can be found at (https://obssr.od.nih.gov/about/bssr-definition/). Short courses supported by this FOA should develop, implement, evaluate and disseminate education and training focused on innovative methods for BSSR. Methodological domains of focus include but are not limited to innovative data collection methodologies and analytic techniques, analysis and linking of big data, or needed but underutilized designs to advance research across the translational spectrum.
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD):
NICHD supports educational programs in research areas relevant to the institute’s scientific objectives. The mission of the NICHD is to lead research and education to understand human development, improve reproductive health, enhance the lives of children and adolescents, and optimize abilities for all. Information on NICHD’s extramural branches and programs can be found at: https://www.nichd.nih.gov/about/org/der/branches and on the National Center for Medical Rehabilitation Research, located within NICHD, can be found at https://www.nichd.nih.gov/about/org/ncmrr.
For this RFA, NICHD encourages applications seeking to develop short training programs on innovative methodologies within the scope of NICHD’s behavioral and social science portfolio. Examples of the types of short courses of interest to NICHD include, but are not limited to:
- Collecting and analyzing biomarker data in BSSR,
- Computational and/or biologically plausible modeling for child development and population dynamics/demography,
- Computational modeling applied to injury biomechanics and pediatric injury prevention,
- Creation and analysis of synthetic data sets to model complex human behavior,
- Data harmonization and linkage,
- Image analytics for video data,
- Natural language processing to study child development or to improve clinical decision support.
Key Dates
Open Date (Earliest Submission Date): May 4, 2021
Letter of Intent Due Date: May 4, 2021
Application Due Date: June 4, 2021
More information and application instructions for RFA-OD-21-005 are available on the NIH website.
Mar 25, 2021