Center for Technology and Behavioral Health
The NIDA T32 Science of Co-Occurring Disorders program is housed under the P30-funded Center for Technology and Behavioral Health (CTBH: c4tbh.org). Dartmouth CTBH faculty are the primary mentors of our T32 trainees (see Faculty Mentors). CTBH and its affiliates are based at institutions across the country and in Switzerland. Comprised of an interdisciplinary team of leaders in behavioral science, health services science, and technology, the overarching aim of the CTBH is to integrate expertise across multiple disciplines and provide an infrastructure to enhance the quality, pace of achievement and impact of innovative scientific research and development activities that systematically combine science-based behavior change interventions with state-of-the-science technologies to create, empirically test and disseminate technology-based interventions targeting substance use disorders and related issues.
Dr. Lisa Marsch directs the Center in concert with a Leadership Team that includes our T32 Faculty. The Center comprises 4 Science Cores: Treatment Development and Evaluation, Dissemination and Implementation, Emerging Technologies and Data Analytics, and Pilot. The CTBH runs a weekly seminar and regularly sponsors workshops and tutorials, all on topics highly relevant to the T32 program. CTBH resources are available for all T32 trainees. Of particular note, the CTBH Pilot Core awards 2-3 competitive grants ($5-20,000 / year). The application process is similar in structure to that of an NIH R03 award - outside reviewers are engaged to provide NIH style scoring using NIH summary sheet format. Postdoctoral trainees are eligible for these awards, and predoctoral trainees are encouraged to apply with their mentor as PI.
In addition to the Center grant itself and multiple CTBH pilot grant and core-related projects, CTBH faculty who are also T32 faculty have numerous federal, extramural, and institutionally funded projects. Note that CTBH extramural affiliates have many additional funded projects that provide opportunities for trainees.