Risk, Prevention and Health Behavior IRG – RPHB
The Risk, Prevention and Health Behavior (RPHB) IRG considers applications covering a wide range of biological, psychological, cultural and social conditions and traits that affect the manifestation, prevention, treatment or management of physical and mental diseases and disorders.
Dr. Weijia Ni
Chief
IRG Summary
Emphasis may be placed on individual behavior, interpersonal relations, or group contexts. Populations studied may include clinic, community-diagnosed, symptomatic and high-risk groups, and research may be concentrated on specific age groups or address questions of change or transition across the life course. Interventions may be purely behavioral, or may involve non-behavioral elements such as pharmacological treatments and devices. Specific areas of interest include (but are not limited to): cognitive and affective processes and markers of disease and illness, gene-environment interactions as they affect individual behavior; behavioral and pharmacologic interventions; risk and protective processes and models, intra- and interpersonal interventions; social development and interpersonal processes, aggressive behavior and violence, and prevention and intervention methodology; intervention and risk factor modification studies, interactions between social and psychological processes and disease management; psychological and biobehavioral responses to disease screening and management; rehabilitation of conditions associated with psychological, physical, communicative, and social disability; and social, cognitive, and affective conditions and processes that influence disease and disorder across the lifespan.
Study Sections
- Addiction Risks and Mechanisms Study Section ARM
- Behavioral Medicine: Interventions and Outcomes Study Section BMIO
- Fellowships: Risk, health and healthcare F16
- Interventions to Prevent and Treat Addictions Study Section IPTA
- Psychosocial Development, Risk, and Prevention Study Section PDRP
- Psychosocial Risk and Disease Prevention Study Section PRDP
- Small Business: Disease Prevention and Management, Risk Reduction and Health Behavior Change RPHB (10)
- Small Business: Psycho/Neuropathology, Lifespan Development and STEM Education RPHB (12)
- Social Psychology, Personality and Interpersonal Processes Study Section SPIP
Specific Areas Include
- Specific areas of interest include (but are not limited to): cognitive and affective processes and markers of disease and illness, gene-environment interactions as they affect individual behavior; behavioral and pharmacologic interventions;
- risk and protective processes and models, intra- and interpersonal interventions; social development and interpersonal processes, aggressive behavior and violence, and prevention and intervention methodology;
- intervention and risk factor modification studies, interactions between social and psychological processes and disease management; psychological and biobehavioral responses to disease screening and management;
- rehabilitation of conditions associated with psychological, physical, communicative, and social disability; and social, cognitive, and affective conditions and processes that influence disease and disorder across the lifespan.
