Funder: American Psychological Foundation
Due Dates: November 1, 2026 (Applications open) | February 12, 2027 (Application deadline, 11:59 p.m. Hawaii Time)
Funding Amounts: One $1,500 grant; funds must be spent within 12 months of payment
Summary: Supports ongoing research using a psychological approach to behavioral aspects of human reproduction or population studies.
Key Information: Applicants must be dissertation-stage graduate students or early-career researchers no more than 10 years postdoctoral.
Description
The American Psychological Foundation (APF) offers this research grant through its Henry David Fund, established to support young psychologists interested in the behavioral aspects of human reproductive behavior and population concerns. The grant supports ongoing research, with applications welcomed from relevant disciplines that demonstrate a psychological approach. Psychologists receive preference.
The program emphasizes demonstrated interest, innovation and originality, research quality, and the criticality of funding. Past funded work illustrates its scope: hormonal contraceptive links to brain structure and spatial cognition, decision-making when childbirth progress slows or stalls, and culturally specific risk and resilience factors linking reproductive coercion to adverse health outcomes among Latinx individuals.
