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This
FOA solicits applications that will elucidate mechanisms and processes of
resilience within a general framework that emphasizes its dynamics and
interactions across both time and scale, multiple contexts, multiple outcomes,
and multiple time frames.
APPLICATION
DUE DATE
December
1, 2016
BACKGROUND
The
term “resilience” has broad associations and conveys different meanings in
different contexts. It has been used to describe the absence of adverse
consequences after exposure to a stressor as well as processes of recovery and
adaptation that may involve learning or post-traumatic growth. Life challenges
such as natural disasters, cumulative social and financial pressures, and
serious illnesses are unavoidable, and have psychological and health
consequences. However some individuals or social groups are able to maintain
high levels of functioning and adaptation in the face of such challenges.
Currently
behavioral and social science research on resilience lacks a common framework,
taxonomy, or approach that extends across multiple levels of analysis (e.g.,
genetic/epigenetic, neurobiological, physiological, psychological, behavioral,
social, environmental). In addition current research does not clearly
articulate the various predisposing factors, classes of adverse exposures,
dynamic processes of adaptation, and potential environmental moderators of
those processes. This initiative seeks to address these gaps.
http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-16-326.html
PARTICIPATING
INSTITUTES, CENTERS, AND OFFICES
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH)
National Institute on Aging (NIA)
National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA)
National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin
Diseases (NIAMS)
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)
National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
Division of Program Coordination, Planning and Strategic
Initiatives,
Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR)
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