The National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) Basic Behavioral and Social Science Opportunity Network (OppNet) will provide grants to develop, strengthen and evaluate trans-disciplinary approaches and methods for behavioral and/or social research on the relationships between cultural practices, beliefs, health and well being. Examples of appropriate topics include, but are not limited to:
- Developing and testing new methods for understanding socialization within stigmatized populations, with special focus to healthcare practices and beliefs associated with shared stigmas.
- Test hypotheses and develop valid metrics regrading how stigma operates and may be mitigated in the context of HIV prevention and care
- Develop and test methods to collect and analyze data about cultural practices and beliefs, with consideration of their roles as risk or protective factors related to health
- Develop and test new ethnographic methods that incorporate mobile technologies to better asses cultural beliefs and practices in ways that enable cross-cultural or intra-cultural investigations
- Investigate how hearing or visually impaired people perceive and process health-related information and how this may vary in the presence or similarly impaired or unimpaired people.
Letters of intent are due November 16, 2012; full applications, December 17, 2012. For more information, see the link below:
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/rfa-files/RFA-LM-12-002.html