National Institute of General Medical Sciences For Postdoctoral Training Grants

1. Basic Pathobiology
2. Genetics (with emphasis on Medical Genetics)
3. Clinical Pharmacology
4. Trauma and Burn Research

For Predoctoral Training Grants

1. Cellular and Molecular Biology
2. Genetic Mechanisms and Regulation
3. Pharmacological Sciences
4. Systems and Integrative Biology
5. Medical Scientists Program

• Dr. Margaret Carlson (301-496-7585)

National Heart and Lung Institute

1. Epidemiology, biostatistics, behavioral research, population genetics, nutrition and other multidisciplinary programs related to heart and vascular diseases
2. Multidisciplinary training programs in respiratory diseases
3. Blood banking sciences and related programs

• Dr. Jerome Green (301-496-7416)

National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

Multidisciplinary or interdisciplinary programs involving the biomedical and/or behavioral social sciences in the following research areas:

1. Adolescence
2. Growth and Development
3. Mental Retardation
4. Perinatology
5. Population
6. Sudden Infant Death Syndrome

• Dr. Merrill Read (301-496-5097)

National Institute on Aging

1. Behavioral Sciences
2. Senile Dementia

• Dr. Leroy Duncan (301-496-1033)

National Institute of Dental Research

1. Periodontal Disease
2. Soft Tissue Diseases
3. Craniofacial Anomalies
4. Pain Control
5. Nutrition
6. Salivary Secretions
7. Caries
8. Restorative Materials

• Dr. Robert J. Schuellein (301-496-7784)

National Institute of Arthritis, Metabolism, and Digestive Diseases

Emphasis on providing opportunity for (1) the clinically trained to acquire thorough grounding in scientific disciplines, including biochemistry, biophysics, cell biology, epidemiology, genetics, physiology, and psychology; and (2) the scientifically trained to participate in clinical investigation in the following:

1. Arthritis, Bone and Skin Diseases
2. Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism
3. Digestive Diseases and Nutrition
4. Kidney Diseases
5. Hematology

• Dr. William Batchelor (301-496-7348)

National Eye Institute

1. Research training support relative to diseases of the eye and visual system in:

   1. Immunology
   2. Genetics
   3. Pharmacology
   4. Epidemiology
   5. Physiology and Biochemistry
   6. Developmental Biology
2. Individuals who have completed their residency and clinical training in ophthalmology may apply for research training support under this program.

• Dr. Wilford Nusser (301-496-5303)

National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

1. Environmental Biology (mutagenesis, teratogenesis, carcinogenesis)
2. Environmental Epidemiology and Statistics
3. Environmental Pathology-Pathophysiology
4. Environmental Toxicology

• Dr. Cobert Le Munyan (919-549-8411 x3352)

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

1. Allergic Diseases
2. Venereal Diseases

• Dr. Louis Bourgeois (301-496-7151)

National Cancer Institute

1. Carcinogenesis
2. Chemotherapy
3. Drug Development
4. Epidemiology
5. Immunology
6. Radiation
7. Tumor Biology
8. Viral Oncology

• Ms. Helen Denson (301-496-7895)

National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke

1. Developmental Neurology
2. Minority Programs in the Neurosciences
3. Neuroimmunology
4. Neurovirology
5. Sensory Physiology and Biophysics

• Dr. Raymond Summers (301-496-7725)

Division of Research Resources

1. Laboratory Animal Science and Medicine

• Dr. Charles McPherson (301-496-5451)

Vol. 3, No. 15, October 15, 1974

National Research Service Awards for Individual Postdoctoral Fellows

ANNOUNCEMENT

Under authority of Public Law 93-348, National Research Act, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) provides National Research Service Awards to post-doctoral individuals for training experiences in specified areas of biomedical and behavioral research.

Awards are made to individual applicants, for specified training proposals, selected as a result of a national competition.

The provisions of this announcement are tentative in nature and their final applicability will depend upon their being consistent with final regulations governing this program. These regulations are now being developed and will be published in the Federal Register, first as a notice of proposed rulemaking. Furthermore, no awards will be made until such regulations have been finally adopted. Such awards are contingent upon the availability of funds.

ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS Applicants must be citizens or non-citizen nationals of the United States, or have been lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence and have in their possession a permanent visa at time of application. Non-citizen nationals are persons born in lands which are not States, but which are under U.S. sovereignty, jurisdiction, or administration (e.g. American Samoa). Individuals on temporary or student visas are not eligible.

As of the beginning date of the proposed fellowship, an applicant must have received a Ph.D., M.D., D.D.S., D.O., D.V.M., O.D., Sc.D., D. Eng., D.N.S., or equivalent domestic or foreign degree. Applicants must apply in one of the research discipline areas specified by NIH (SEE ATTACHMENT). Proposed study must encompass biomedical research training with an opportunity to carry out supervised research in the specified areas, and offer opportunity to research health scientists, research clinicians, etc., to broaden their scientific background, or to extend their potential for research in health-related areas. National Research Service Awards (NRSA) are not made for study leading to the M.D., D.O., D.D.S., or other similar professional degrees. Neither will these awards support non-research clinical training.

Prior to formal submission, an applicant must arrange for appointment to an appropriate institution and acceptance by a sponsor who will supervise his training and research experience. Applicants may be sponsored by a domestic or foreign non-profit private or non-Federal public institution that has the staff and facilities to provide the proposed research training in a suitable environment for performing high-quality work. Training under this program may also be undertaken at the NIH and the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration. The major emphasis of the application should be the research training experience and broadening of scientific competence.

Under exceptional circumstances when such study and opportunity is not available at any domestic institution, an individual may request support for study abroad. Such applicant will be required to provide detailed justification based on the unique facilities and/or training opportunity that are of the nature and caliber that they cannot be found in the U.S. and the particular suitability of the foreign situation, rather than the domestic, to the proposed research.

DOCUMENTS TO BE SUBMITTED The applicant must submit an application for the National Research Service Award and, in addition, arrange for the submission of supporting documents on his or her behalf (reference reports, facilities and commitment statement from the sponsor, etc.). Each applicant must submit a written assurance that the service or payback provision will be complied with in the event of the receipt of an award.

An individual may not have two competing applications pending review concurrently in the NIH National Research Service Individual Postdoctoral Program.

APPLICATION MATERIAL Individuals are encouraged to review the eligibility criteria before requesting application kits from Grants Inquiries, Division of Research Grants, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20014. If a self-addressed gummed mailing label is enclosed in the request for kits, it will expedite handling.

ANNUAL STIPENDS AND ALLOWANCES The stipend level is determined by the number of years of relevant postdoctoral experience at the time of award. Research experience (including industrial), teaching, internship, residency, etc., may be considered relevant experience.

Stipend supplementation from non-Federal funds will be permitted.

No allowance will be provided for dependents or domestic travel. Fellows affiliating with foreign sponsoring institutions will receive a single economy or coach round-trip travel fare to the training site.

Upon request, the NIH will provide funds of up to $3,000 per 12-month period to the non-Federal sponsoring institution to help defray such expenses as tuition and fees, research supplies, equipment, faculty salary, appropriate medical insurance, travel to domestic scientific meetings, and related items. An allowance is available for the fellow sponsored by a laboratory of the NIH/ADAMHA for domestic meeting travel expenses and appropriate medical insurance.

PERIOD OF SUPPORT No individual may receive more than three years of support in the aggregate by a National Research Service Award. Any exception to this requires a waiver from the Agency head based on review of justification from the applicant and sponsor. Although fellowships are awarded for 12-month periods, assurances may be given by the awarding unit for continued support beyond the first year provided progress is satisfactory and funds are available.

SELECTION OF AWARDEES Applications will be evaluated by initial review groups at the NIH and are also subject to review and approval of the appropriate advisory council of the NIH whose activities relate to the research training under the award. The application will be evaluated on the basis of past academic and research records, the research training proposal, the sponsor and training environment, the applicant’s research goals, publications, reference reports and other relevant information. NIH program interests and the availability of funds are also considered in the final selection.

NOTIFICATION OF FINAL ACTION An applicant is notified by the awarding unit of the final action on the application by an award notice or by a letter.

ACTIVATION DATE An awardee has until the end of 12 months from the issue date on the award notice to activate a new award.

CONDITIONS OF AWARD No award will be made to an individual unless he or she has signed and submitted the Statement of Intent to meet the service or payback provisions required under the law as a condition under which a National Research Service Award is made and accepted.

Fellowships are awarded for full-time research training and research. Fellows may utilize some of their time in academic studies and clinical duties if such work is closely related to their research training experience.

A NRSA recipient may not hold another federally sponsored fellowship concurrently with a National Research Service Award. A research trainee may, however, accept concurrent educational remuneration from the Veterans Administration (e.g. G.I. Bill) and loans from Federal funds.

Upon completion of the program, recipients of NRS Awards are expected to engage in biomedical research or teaching for a period equal to the period of support. Alternatively, if the Secretary, DHEW, determines there are no suitable health research or teaching positions available to the individual, the following may be authorized: (1) If the individual is a physician, dentist, nurse, or other individual trained to provide health care directly to patients, the Secretary may authorize (a) service in the National Health Service Corps, (b) service in his or her specialty in a geographic area designated by the Secretary, or (c) service in the specialty in a health maintenance organization serving a medically underserved population. (2) If the individual who received the NRS Award is not trained to provide health care to patients, the Secretary may authorize the individual to engage in some other health-related activity. For each year for which an individual receives a NRS Award he or she shall (a) engage in twelve months of health research or teaching, (b) serve twelve months as a member of the National Health Service Corps, or (c) if authorized by the Secretary for one of the other alternatives, shall serve twenty months for each year of award.

For individuals who fail to fulfill their full service obligation the United States is entitled to recover an amount equal to the stipend received from the NIH plus interest in accordance with a formula which gives one-half credit to months actually served in the computation of the payback debt.

Fellows are not entitled to vacations, as such, although those at academic institutions may take the holidays at Christmas, in the Spring, etc., and the short period between semesters or quarters. The time between a summer session and a fall semester is considered an active part of the training period. Those at non-academic institutions are entitled to the normal holiday and vacation periods of the institution.

TAXABILITY OF STIPENDS NIH takes no position on the taxability or non-taxability of National Research Service Awards. No deductions for income tax or social security are withheld by NIH and no annual summary of amounts paid to the fellow are provided. Recipients of the NRS Award are advised to consult local, State, and Federal revenue services.

For additional information on either of the above programs write: Office of Research Manpower, Division of Research Grants, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20014.

For additional information concerning the specified areas of research in which applications will be accepted, write to the Institute or Division concerned at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20014.

The research areas, arranged by institute, in which fellowship applications will be accepted are:

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE

PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE

ALCOHOL, DRUG ABUSE, AND MENTAL HEALTH ADMINISTRATION

ROCKVILLE, MARYLAND 20852

OFFICE OF THE ADMINISTRATOR ALCOHOL, DRUG ABUSE, AND MENTAL HEALTH ADMINISTRATION

Institutional Grants for National Research Service Awards

December, 1974

ANNOUNCEMENT

This is to announce that under authority of Public Law 93-348, National Research Act, the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Administration (ADAMHA) will award grants to domestic public and nonprofit private institutions to enable such institutions to make to individuals selected by them National Research Service Awards for predoctoral and postdoctoral training in specified areas of biomedical and behavioral research.

The provisions of this announcement are tentative in nature, and final applicability will depend upon their being consistent with regulations governing this program. These regulations are now being developed and will be published in the Federal Register, first as a notice of proposed rule-making. No grants will be made until such regulations have been finally adopted.

ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS: Domestic public or nonprofit private institutions applying for institutional grants must propose training programs in one of the ADAMHA priority areas specified (SEE ATTACHMENT). The applicant institution must have, or be able to develop, the staff and facilities to provide the proposed research training in a suitable environment for performing high-quality work.

The training program director at the institution will be responsible for selection and appointment of individuals to receive National Research Service Awards and for the overall direction of the research training program. The training program must provide opportunities for individual Awardees selected by the institution to carry out supervised research in the specified areas and in addition to broaden their scientific backgrounds or extend their potential for research in health-related areas.

Individuals selected by the program director to be the recipient of National Research Service Awards must be citizens or non-citizen nationals of the United States, or have been lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence and have in their possession a permanent visa at the time of appointment to the training program. Non-citizen nationals are persons born in lands which are not States, but which are under U.S. sovereignty, jurisdiction, or administration (e.g., American Samoa).

Predoctoral individuals selected to receive Awards must have completed two or more years of graduate work at the time of appointment to the training program. Postdoctoral individuals selected to receive Awards must have received a Ph.D., M.D., D.D.S., D.O., D.V.M., O.D., Sc.D., D.Eng., D.N.S., or equivalent domestic or foreign degree at the time of appointment. National Research Service Awards are not made for study leading to the M.D., D.O., D.D.S., or other similar professional degrees, or for study which is part of residency training leading to a medical specialty.

APPLICATION: Eligible institutions desiring to request support under this program must submit an application on forms which will be provided upon request to the Grants Management Officers of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, or the National Institute of Mental Health, ADAMHA, Rockville, Maryland 20852.

STIPENDS AND ALLOWANCES: Stipends and allowances requested in applications for institutional grants will be in accordance with the following: An annual stipend of $3,000 for predoctoral individuals at all levels plus an allowance of $600 for each eligible dependent can be requested; an allowance for tuition is also available.

The stipend level for postdoctoral individuals is determined by the number of years of relevant postdoctoral experience at the time of appointment. Research experience (including industrial), teaching, internship, residency, etc., may be considered relevant experience. An allowance of up to $1,000 for each postdoctoral Awardee (in lieu of tuition, fees, and deposits) will be provided. No dependency allowance is available for postdoctoral individuals.

Stipend supplementation from non-Federal funds will be permitted.

INSTITUTIONAL COSTS: Applications for institutional grants may also request up to 25% of the total award for other related costs (salaries, equipment, supplies, etc.) which are deemed essential to carry out the program of training for the National Research Service Awardees appointed under the grant. Indirect cost allowances, in accordance with DHEW policy for training grants, also may be requested.

PERIOD OF SUPPORT: Awards for institutional grants may be made for project periods of up to 5 years. Individuals appointed under institutional grants to receive National Research Service Awards may not be supported for more than three years in the aggregate. However, the Secretary or his designee may waive the three year limit for a particular individual based on a review of justification from the Awardee and the grantee institution.

REVIEW PROCESS: Applications for institutional grants will be evaluated by ADAMHA initial review groups and are also subject to review and approval of the appropriate ADAMHA advisory council. Applications will be evaluated on the basis of records and qualifications of participating faculty, the proposed research objectives and program design, the criteria to be employed in selecting individuals to receive Awards, previous training record of the program and its ability to attract high caliber students, institutional commitments, facilities and environment, and relationship of the proposed program goals to need for research training in ADAMHA program areas. The availability of funds is also a consideration in the final selection of programs for award.

NOTIFICATION OF FINAL ACTION: Applicants are notified by the awarding unit of the final action on the application by an award notice or by a letter.

CONDITIONS OF AWARD: The institution must assure that no individual will be appointed under the grant to receive a National Research Service Award unless he or she submits a written statement of intent to meet the service or payback provisions required under the law as a condition under which a National Research Service Award is made and accepted.

Upon termination of an Award made to an individual, the recipient is expected to engage in biomedical or behavioral research or teaching for a period equal to the period of support. Alternatively, if the Secretary, DHEW, determines there are no suitable health research or teaching positions available to the individual, the following may be authorized: (1) If the individual is a physician, dentist, nurse, or other individual trained to provide health care directly to patients, the Secretary may authorize (a) service in the National Health Service Corps, (b) service in his or her specialty in a geographic area designated by the Secretary, or (c) service in the specialty in a health maintenance organization serving a medically underserved population. (2) If the individual who received the NRS Award is not trained to provide health care to patients, the Secretary may authorize the individual to engage in some other health-related activity. For each year for which an individual receives an NRS Award he or she shall (a) engage in twelve months of health research or teaching, (b) serve twelve months as a member of the National Health Service Corps, or (c) if authorized by the Secretary for one or the other alternatives, shall serve twenty months for each year of award.

For individuals who fail to fulfill their full obligation the United States is entitled to recover an amount equal to the stipend received from the institutional grant, plus interest, in accordance with a formula which gives one-half credit to months actually served in the computation of the payback debt.

The Secretary shall by regulation provide for the waiver or suspension of any payback obligation to an individual whenever compliance by the individual is impossible or would involve extreme hardship to the individual and if enforcement of the individual’s obligation would be against equity and good conscience.

National Research Service Awards provided under institutional grants are made for full-time research training and research. Awardees may utilize some of their time in course studies and clinical duties if such work is closely related to the research training experience.

An NRSA recipient may not hold another Federally sponsored fellowship or training award concurrently with a National Research Service Award. An awardee may, however, accept concurrent educational remuneration from the Veterans Administration (e.g., G.I. Bill) and loans from Federal funds.

TAXABILITY OF STIPENDS: ADAMHA takes no position on the taxability or non-taxability of National Research Service Awards. Recipients of the NRS Award are advised to consult the grantee institution and local, State, and Federal revenue offices.

APPLICATION INFORMATION: Requests for application forms and other inquiries regarding the ADAMHA institutional grant for National Research Service Awards should be addressed as follows:

National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism

• Prevention

Research is needed on prevention and education focusing on such areas as theories and approaches to prevention, drinking patterns among teenagers and youths and other issues related to prevention and education. Relevant disciplines for training include the various social and behavioral sciences, such as anthropology, epidemiology, psychiatry, psychology, social work and sociology. Emphasis will be on research training in the problems of alcoholism for scientists in these disciplines.

• Early Identification

Another priority research area is prevention by means of early identification. Among relevant disciplines are anthropology, behavioral genetics, economics, personality psychology and social psychology. Research training in such disciplines will be provided for research clinicians and behavioral scientists.

• Organizational Change

Research training in the area of organizational change (that is, how to make institutions and communities sensitive to the needs of alcoholic people) could include such disciplines as industrial psychology, organizational psychology, sociology, social psychology and urban planning. Emphasis will be on research training for specialists in such disciplines as they relate to alcoholism.

• Financing Alcohol Services

Specialists are needed to examine long-term costs of alcoholism, third party payments, and health service systems. Among relevant disciplines are health economics, health planning, political science, systems analysis and operations research.

• Etiology

Researchers trained to study genetic and social factors influencing alcohol tolerance and alcoholism are needed to provide a better understanding of alcoholism problems. Support will be provided to behavioral geneticists and social scientists or individuals desiring such training for work in this field.

• Treatment Evaluation

In the area of treatment, research is needed to determine effective interventions appropriate to various alcoholic populations. Relevant disciplines for research training include clinical psychology and social science disciplines. Emphasis will be placed on research training for clinical-administrators, clinical research training for social scientists.

National Institute on Drug Abuse

• Biomedical Science Studies

Research training will emphasize studies in the biomedical sciences relevant to drug abuse. In particular, training is needed for researchers to immunopharmacology, molecular pharmacology, and neuropharmacology of abused substances.

• Etiology

Research is also needed on complex behavioral, biological and societal factors involved in the etiology of drug abuse. Emphasis will be on providing interdisciplinary training and also training behavioral and social scientists in experimental analysis of social behavior and behavior therapy.

• Epidemiology

An important area of research is the epidemiology of drug use and abuse, especially variations among groups. Relevant disciplines for training include the various behavioral and social sciences. Emphasis will be on research training for epidemiologists and clinicians.

• Treatment Modalities and Outcome

Clinical studies are needed to determine the safety and efficacy of new pharmacologic agents, new modalities for treating drug abuse and variations in therapeutic response and among various population groups. This will require clinical investigators with special training in experimental design and methodology, and evaluation specialists treatment outcome.

National Institute of Mental Health

• Child Mental Health

One important area is studies of effects of the social environment on developmental processes, including studies of parent/child relationships, family dynamics, social institutions and influences, especially in urban areas. Emphasis will be on training of researchers concerned with behavioral problems, training of clinicians for research careers and development of researchers with crossdisciplinary competence. Relevant disciplines include child psychiatry, anthropology, ecology, epidemiology, ethology, nursing, psychology and sociology.

Another priority area of study is the non-intellective aspects of personality, including, for example, affect, creativity, coping mechanisms, motivation, social context and values, and orientation. One area of emphasis will be research training in the social and behavioral sciences for child psychiatrists.

Research is needed in the area of biobehavior, the influences and interrelations of biological and environmental factors. Especially needed is training of researchers in physical anthropology, developmental neurobiology, behavioral genetics, comparative psychology and other social and behavioral sciences.

Another important area is baseline indicator research which will develop knowledge of the prevalance and characteristics of child disorders and problem situations. Emphasis will be on training epidemiologists in methods for child research and in demography.

• Depression (and Suicide)

Priority areas of study include description and classification of depressive disorders, including depression in childhood and in the aged and across cultural and minority groups; identification of high risk populations, with respect to life events, personality and other social and psychological characteristics; treatment techniques; and public education, to identify and channel recognized depressed and/or suicidal individuals. Pertinent disciplines include anthropology, behavioral genetics, biochemistry, clinical psychiatry, epidemiology, psychology, psychometrics and sociology. One area of emphasis will be clinical research training for behavioral scientists and clinicians.

• Schizophrenia

One priority area is research on high risk populations. Relevant disciplines include anthropology, biochemistry, child psychiatry, developmental biology, developmental psychology and genetics. Emphasis will be placed on training of developmental specialists and interdisciplinary scientists.

Another area of emphasis is studies of psychosocial interventions. Disciplines where training is needed include epidemiology, psychiatry, psycho-therapy and social psychology. Emphasis will be placed on research training for clinicians and behavioral scientists.

• Brain and Behavior

Research training will be provided in psychobiological aspects of maturation, sensory and motor processes, affective processes, biological bases of behavior and cognitive processes, including intelligence and language. Emphasis will be on training focussed on the interface of physiological, psychological and social variables.

In the area of development of the brain and the central nervous sytem and emergence of organismic behavior, research training will be supported in such neurosciences as developmental neurobiology, comparative neuroanatomy, micro-neuroanatomy, neurochemistry, neuroembryology and neurophysiology.

Training for research in neurochemical aspects of behavior and its abnormality will be provided in such disciplines as biochemistry, biology, bio-physics and neurosciences such as neuropharmacology and neuropsychology.

In the area of behavior and genetics, relevant disciplines include clinical specialties, psychology, physical anthropology and zoology.

• Psychoactive Drugs

Areas of needed study include mechanisms of drug action, early clinical drug evaluation studies, drug trials, ethnopharmacology, sociopharmacology and development of methods. Among relevant disciplines are anthropology, biophysics, biostatistics, drug metabolism, embryology, genetics, neuroendocrinology, neurology, neuropharmacology, organic chemistry, pharmacology, and psychiatry. Emphasis will be placed on research training for clinical researchers and crossdisciplinary specialists such as neuropsychopharmacologists, research child psychiatrists and pediatric neurologists.

• Crime and Delinquency

One priority area is the study of individual violent behavior and its antecedents, including understanding interactions of biological, neurological, psychological and socioenvironmental factors in this kind of behavior. Among pertinent disciplines are anthropology, biochemistry, biology, neurology, psychiatry, psychology and sociology. Emphasis will be placed on crossdisciplinary research training for social and biobehavioral scientists.

Another important area of study is the interactions of law and mental health, including such areas as involuntary commitment, competency to stand trial, right to treatment and standards of treatment. Emphasis will be placed on research training for psychiatrists in the behavioral and social sciences and law, behavioral and social science research training for lawyers and legal research training for behavioral and social scientists.

Still another important area is knowledge about the development and implementation of social policies in crime, delinquency and related social deviance. The relevant disciplines include anthropology, political science, psychology and sociology. Emphasis will be placed on crossdisciplinary research training.

• Aging

Among priority areas of study are behavioral factors involved in chronic brain syndrome; the nature, prevention and treatment of depression in later life; studies of the effect of various life styles and adjustment in later life; personality changes accompanying aging and their consequences for social and psychological functionings; changing social roles and participation among the aged population; and attitudes toward aging and the aged. Relevant disciplines include anthropology, clinical psychology, experimental psychology, psychiatry, social psychology and sociology. Emphasis will be placed on providing research training for psychiatrists and clinical psychologists and training in gerontology for behavioral scientists.

• Minorities

Priority areas include cognitive, psychosocial and emotional development of racial and ethnic minority group children; developmental processes and conceptual framework of psychopathology in individuals and/or groups of the racial and ethnic minorities; instruments for the assessment of personality adaptational mechanisms and other aspects of personal functioning of minority groups; treatment and rehabilitation models for delivery of mental health services to minority populations. Relevant disciplines for these areas of study include anthropology, economics, nursing, psychiatry, social work, sociology, psychology and systems analysis. Emphasis will be on providing training for minority group researchers.

• Evaluation

Study areas for program evaluation include degree and effectiveness of services provided to various populations (such as rural groups, racial and ethnic minorities, the poor and “middle Americans”); and, degree and effectiveness of training programs for various types of individuals. Relevant disciplines include administration, anthropology, demography, economics, education, epidemiology, political science, psychiatric nursing, psychiatric social work, psychiatry, psychology, social geography and sociology. Emphasis will be placed on training evaluators for research in substantive specialties and training clinical and social science specialists in evaluation methodology.

• Mental Health Services Management

Research is needed on the organization, management and financing of mental health, drug and alcohol services. Among specific areas of study are assessment of community needs; planning and organizing services; resource utilization and productivity; models of financing; standards of care; data systems; dynamics of organizational change; and diffusion and utilization of research results. Among relevant disciplines for research training are anthropology, business administration communication, economics, epidemiology, political science, psychology, public administration and sociology. Emphasis will be on providing crossdisciplinary research training for scientists and managers.

November 1974