Alysha Deslippe will collaborate with Dr. Molly Byrne (University of Galway, Ireland) to better understand how to incorporate the perspectives of coaches and athletes through guidance panels. Incorporating this into the EatGen study will help increase the relevancy of the developed food education tool for student athletes and schools.

Luz Tores will collaborate with Dr. Yael Bar-Zeev (Hebrew University-Hadassah Braun School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Israel) to develop a protocol for a qualitative multi-level study to explore the barriers and facilitators for providing a brief smoking cessation intervention among hospitalized smokers with high cardiovascular risk in Bogotá. This multi-level study will include interviews with patients, healthcare professionals, and higher-level hospital administrators and stakeholders.

Tamla Evans has collaborated with the University of Newcastle, Australia to develop a cohort study examining temporal relationships between eating behaviors, mental health, and weight change in young adults in the UK and Australia. Under the mentorship of Laureate Prof Clare Collins and Prof Tracy Burrows, this award will extend the collaboration by using the findings to adapt and pilot test an Australian telehealth intervention for addictive eating (TRACE) in a UK sample of young adults, using co-production methods.

Sol Vidal Almela will collaborate with Dr. Fran Ortega and the PROFITH Research group (University of Granada, Spain) to: (1) test and communicate strategies to enhance the recruitment of females for clinical research trials, (2) acquire technical training in physiological measures related to brain and vascular health, and, (3) produce scholarly work related to sex differences in the brain and vascular health of patients with heart disease.

Elizabeth Schneider will acquire training in electroencephalography (EEG) recordings from Prof. Anja Hilbert (University of Leipzig, Germany), an expert in applied EEG techniques, to implement in a project at her home institution. The project will use EEG to measure changes in brain responses to food stimuli before and after a gut-targeted dietary intervention. These findings will inform how the gut-brain axis modulates eating behaviour, connecting eating behaviour, gut microbiome, and neural recordings for the first time in a human sample.

Ama Gyamfua Ampofo will collaborate with Dr Mahati Chittem (IIT Hyderabad, India) to support the design and implementation of a novel Senior High School Nurse-led Educational (SHINE) toolkit that is culturally appropriate for female high school students in Ghana and easily adaptable to similar low- and middle-income country settings.

Sophie Green's award will facilitate a collaboration with Professor Linda Collins from New York University (USA). The proposed project will involve secondary analysis of a dataset from a factorial experiment aimed at optimising the content of an information leaflet designed to increase necessity beliefs and reduce concerns about adjuvant endocrine therapy in women with breast cancer.

Dorothy Chan award will be collaborating with Dr Cannas Kwok at the Western Sydney University (Australia) to explore beliefs and perceptions about breast cancer and screening practices among South Asian women in Hong Kong using qualitative approach.

Melissa Flores will use data from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study to understand whether parent cultural values are associated with child neurological profiles linked to prosocial behavior, with guidance from her international mentor, Dr. Nadia Corral-Frias (Universidad de Sonora, Mexico).

Hana Sediva's project includes a systematic review, a systematically designed, co-produced, theory- and evidence-based, user-centred lifestyle health-enhancing digital intervention targeting midlife women, and a pilot RCT to evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of the intervention with midlife women, together with Dr. Danielle Arigo (University of Scranton, USA).

KayLoni Olson's award will support a new international distance collaboration and mentoring relationship with Dr. Christopher Eccleston (University of Bath, UK), a leading expert in pain science, with the goal of collaboratively reviewing the pain and obesity literatures and identifying strategic gaps to guide future.research

Jessica Grub will be collaborating internationally with Dr. Jennifer Gordon from the University of Regina (Canada), to investigate sex steroid fluctuation, sleep, and depressive mood during perimenopause in a longitudinal study.

Arwa Ben Salah will collaborate with Mustafa al’Absi at the University of Minnesota Medical School (USA) to investigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on stress, mental health, and substance use behaviors with specific attention to regional challenges, and will also focus on identifying factors that may buffer the impact of CIVID-19 related stress.

Connor Gleadhill will collaborate with Hopin Lee at the University of Oxford (United Kingdom) to enable capacity building for clinicians performing a trial on a lifestyle behavioural approach in a regional primary care setting.

Delfin Lovelina will collaborate with Mark Parascandola at the National Cancer Institute (USA) to assess the pattern and prevalence of smokeless tobacco consumption, its associated factors for its consumption, oral cancer awareness and to derive effective cessation strategy among the users.

Rossmary Marquez-Lameda will collaborate with Ricarda Nater-Mewes at the University of Vienna to conduct a qualitative study to understand Venezuelan displaced women’s access to family planning services in Peru, including contraception.

Brett Messman will collaborate with Joshua Wiley at the Monash University (Australia) on a series of studies exploring the psychometric properties of sleep variability, sociodemographic differences in sleep variability, and the dynamics between sleep variability and mental health outcomes (e.g., insomnia, stress, anxiety, and depression).

Carley O'Neill will collaborate with Billy Sperlich at the University of Würzburg (Germany) to undertake a systematic review and meta-analysis examining sex and gender differences among cardiovascular disease patients on the impact of wearable devices on physical activity levels, usability of such devices, and adherence to cardiac rehabilitation programs.

Michelle Pebole will collaborate with Simon Rosenbaum at the University of New South Wales (Australia) to assess experiences with and perceptions of Australian accredited exercise physiologists (AEPs) about the impact of sexual violence on individuals accessing their care.

Isabela Roque Marcal will collaborate with Jennifer Reed at the University of Ottawa (Canada) to systematically review the evidence of the impact of sex and gender on the effects of exercise interventions on physical and mental health in patients with atrial fibrillation.

Suzanne Tanya Nethan will visit Dr Tami-Maury at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Centre to contribute to a project based on assessing the use pattern of betel quid among Asian immigrants and Asian descents living in Texas

Thomas Kraynak will visit Professor Hugo Critchley at the Brighton and Sussex Medical School to adapt a standard psychological stress paradigm to experimentally manipulate cardiac viscerosensory signaling

Tess Langfield will visit Dr Philippe Gilchrist at the Macquarie University to investigate the impact of glassware design on drinking behaviours

Leslie Johnson will visit Professor Brian Oldenburg at the University of Melbourne to examine the prevalence and correlates of depression and anxiety among participants in the Kerala Diabetes Prevention Program (K-DPP) and conduct a culturally-sensitive qualitative analysis identifying anxiety triggers related to diabetes care among adults with type-2 diabetes mellitus in India

Chloe Huelsnitz will visit Professor Urte Scholz at the University of Zurich to understand how to optimize social control to improve individual and dyadic health while also maintaining or improving relationship functioning

Samantha van Beurden, PhD student of Medical Studies at the University of Exeter Medical School in the UK will be traveling to the lab of Dr. Petra Staiger, PhD, at Deakin University in Australia to adapt a dietary impulse management intervention for use in problem drinkers (ISBM awardee).

Lydia Roos, PhD student of Health Psychology at the University of North Carolina in the USA, will be traveling to the lab of Dr Nicolas Rohleder, PhD, at Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nurnberg in Germany to evaluate the role of emotion regulation strategies in acute stress reactivity using a repeated acute stress paradigm (SfHP awardee).

Patricia Moreno, PhD, Postdoctoral Trainee at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in the USA, will be traveling to the lab of Dr. Manual Ortiz, PhD at Universidad de La Frontera in Chile to evaluate psychosocial factors and cardiometabolic dysregulation in adult Chilean cancer survivors (APS awardee).