The T36A panel is a recurring Special Emphasis Panel that reviews Career Development Award (K Mechanism) applications. These career development award applications focus on the social, interpersonal, community, and cultural influences on health, development, and well-being across the lifecourse. Research involves a wide range of topics: social development, group or community-level risk and protective factors, ethics, and community or population-level social and environmental determinants of health. They employ a wide range of study designs ranging from intervention studies, mixed methods approaches, longitudinal studies, and non-interventional study designs.

Review Dates

A roster for the panel will be posted here, at least 30 days prior to the review meeting

Topics


  • Maternal and child health developmental processes and risk
  • Adolescent and young adult psychosocial and behavioral health and well-being (risky behavior, substance use, youth suicide risk, social needs, etc.)
  • Community approaches or community-engaged research for at-risk populations
  • Social determinants related to individual-level, family, peers, community, and broader population health (including policy and system-level impacts).
  • Adult well-being and adult developmental processes and risk
  • Mental health, stress, burnout, and well-being in special adult populations (community-providers, work force concerns)
  • Environmental exposures and their impact on processes of health and development
  • Interpersonal processes, caregiving stress, older adult emotional and cognitive concerns.
  • Ethical, legal, and societal implications of a wide range of research and emerging technologies

 

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