Psychosocial Influences on Healthy Development – PIHD
NOTE: Starts with the October 2026 Council round submission dates (Cycle I due dates). This study section was evaluated as part of CSR’s ENQUIRE process to align study sections with advances in science. Learn more about ENQUIRE.
Psychosocial Influences on Healthy Development (PIHD) reviews applications that examine the interplay among psychological, interpersonal, social, cultural, and behavioral risk factors and processes that impact health and human development among individuals across the lifespan. The focus of studies is to explore the pathways that affect human development and the proximal/micro-level social and interpersonal determinants and mechanisms of health and wellness. Applications also explore the risk and protective factors in the context of social, family, and close relationships that could result in heterogenous outcomes or differences across groups. This study section involves human studies that emphasize bio-behavioral or psychosocial processes rather than neurocognitive or related processes at the biological level. Studies may test a theoretical framework or inform a theory-based intervention targeting the factors that optimize healthy development. Interventions that focus on treatment or recovery from a disease or condition or that target a broader community audience or setting are reviewed elsewhere.
Review Dates
A roster for the panel will be posted here, at least 30 days prior to the review meeting
Membership Panel
When the panel is chartered as a standing panel, members will be listed here. Expected in 2026.
Topics
- Adaptive vs. maladaptive behaviors that affect developmental outcomes across the lifecourse (from childhood to old age)
- Social, cultural, personality, cognitive, or emotional aspects of a health condition
- Role of family, peers, intimate partners, and social networks, either as risk or protective factors or outcomes, from a developmental outcomes or risk development perspective.
- Observational, experimental, clinical trials with a mechanistic focus or seek to identify a target for future intervention development
- Methodological studies proposing to develop or test new measures
