Theory serves as the structure and support for all aspects of your grant proposal and a clearly articulated theoretical framework significantly strengthens your application. Using examples of individual, interpersonal, and social level theories, this presentation will focus the ways in which theory serves as a guide for the design of your study as well as tips for integrating your theoretical model into the components of an NIH application.
The CDUHR Grant Development Workshop Series is intended to support investigators with the submission of their first NIH grant proposal. The workshops are open to all interested individuals at the four affiliated institutions. The six workshops are sequential in regard to topics covered and the development of an NIH application. Attendance at the complete series is recommended for optimal learning and application of the workshop content. However, for individuals unable to commit to the full series, each workshop will be offered as a freestanding session.
Noelle Leonard, PhD, is a Senior Research Scientist at the NYU Silver School of Social Work and an Associate Director in the Transdisciplinary Research Methods (TRM) Core. Her expertise is in designing, implementing, evaluating, and disseminating behavioral interventions for highly vulnerable adults, adolescents, and families including those who are infected with, or at-risk for, HIV and other sexually transmitted infections, as well as those at risk for or dealing with issues related to substance use, and other mental health and behavioral problems. She has been a principal investigator or co-investigator on NIH-funded research studies using a variety of intervention strategies including mobile health, ambulatory assessment of physiological states, and mindfulness meditation. These studies have involved incarcerated youth, young men who have sex with men (YMSM), runaway/homeless youth, high-risk and HIV-infected adults, and at-risk adolescent mothers.
In her role on the TRM core, she assists CDUHR affiliated investigators who are planning or conducting intervention studies and participates in several activities of the Pilot Projects and Mentoring core including serving as a mentor for junior investigators who are developing and conducting CDUHR-funded pilot projects. She developed the CDUHR assessment measures database and is the point person for investigators who are searching for appropriate measures for developing grant proposals and conducting funded projects.
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