Frequently Asked Questions about Mentorship

HBIC Award 2025 Opportunity – Call for Mentors

We are pleased to announce that the 2025 Health Behavior International Collaborative (HBIC) award will be running again in 2025 and is now seeking new mentors.

The purpose of the award is to facilitate international mentorship collaborations between an early career researcher (or professional) and a laboratory or research group under the guidance of an identified mentor.

The goal is to support research or program development projects in the areas of health research, clinical behavioural health, behavioural medicine, and health promotion.

Projects must be feasibly accomplished within one year. Four individual awards ($3,000 USD each) will be granted as part of the 2025 competition to offset costs of collaborative activities.

The HBIC is now calling for mentors interested in being contacted by potential early career researchers to develop a project application. Please note that the HBIC Award puts the onus on the early career applicant to lead the application process.

To qualify as a mentor, you must:

• Be interested in supporting mentees and developing new collaborative networks
• Have sufficient time and resources to support the project over the project period
• Not have served as an HBIC international mentor in the past two years.

Mentees and mentors must be (or become) affiliated with one of the HBIC 2025’s sponsors: International Society for Behavioral Medicine (ISBM), Society for Health Psychology of the American Psychological Association (SfHP), Society of Behavioral Medicine (SBM), and International Behavioural Trials Network (IBTN) or the Canadian Behavioural Interventions and Trials Network (CBITN).

Read more about the HBIC Award and view previously funded mentees and projects.

 

Interested in becoming a mentor?

Complete this form and be listed on the HBIC website as a potential mentor. To be visible to potential applicants of the 2025 competition, we encourage you to complete this form before December 15, 2024. (Late applications will be accepted).

 

Inquiries

If you have additional questions, please contact us at H.B.InternationalAward@gmail.com

 

FAQs

Are mentors involved in submitting the award application?

The submission process is designed to be led by the applicant, not the mentor. Mentors are asked to support the applicant by providing them with the required international mentor’s letter of support and discussing the proposed program of work prior to submission.

 

Do mentors need to be affiliated with one of sponsoring organization?

Yes. You must be affiliated with one of the four sponsoring societies (SBM, SfHP, IBTN/CBITN, or any ISBM member society). You do not need to be in the same society as your mentee.

However, if you are from a low or lower-middle income country in which there are currently no active behavioral medicine organizations, you are eligible to serve as mentor for projects sponsored by ISBM without yourself being a member of these societies.

 

Who are the sponsoring organisations? The International Society of Behavioral Medicine (ISBM), the Society for Health Psychology of the American Psychological Association (SfHP), the Society of Behavioral Medicine (SBM), and the International Behavioural Trials Network (IBTN) in partnership with the Canadian Behavioural Interventions and Trials Network (CBITN).

 

Can I mentor more than one applicant?

You can only mentor one applicant per year.

 

Does my mentee have to be a member of the same sponsoring society I am?

No, your international mentee can be a member of any society involved in the award (including any sponsoring society; see list below or ISBM website).

 

When will funds be released for use?

Exact timing of the release of funds is at the discretion of each society awarding the prize. However, in past years, the funds have been released as soon as practical so as not to delay the collaboration.

 

I am from a low or lower-middle income country in which there is no sponsoring organization. Am I still eligible to apply?

If you are from a low or lower-middle income country in which there are currently no active behavioral medicine organizations, you are eligible to serve as mentor for projects sponsored by ISBM without yourself being a member of these societies.

 

When will my mentee be notified of the outcome of their application? For the 2025 award competition, applicants will be notified of the outcome of their application by email in April 2025.