• Granting Graduate Student Research and Travel Awards to graduate students annually
• Liaising with other APA and SfHP committees as appropriate
• Providing strategic recommendations to the SfHP Executive Committee regarding research directions such as recommending eminent researchers for expert panels when requested, serving as the source for review processes, or for input on research-related matters brought to the Society.
• Acquiring information relevant to funding, ethics and knowledge transfer information for the discipline.
• Publicizing new or surging areas of research in health psychology  via our Division Listservs.
• Arranging for the publication of announcements and/or articles in The Health Psychologist, on the SfHP website, and the Society’s listserv.

• We are currently assisting the newly formed APA Panels for developing treatment guidelines for obesity and PTSD.

The primary way our council achieves its purpose is by granting student research awards. Two types of awards are granted:

Student Research Award: Funds research for six students, principal investigators, usually dissertations. 

Student Travel Award: Funds travel to the three highest rated student submissions to the APA annual convention.

• APA’s latest database of measures: PsycTESTS
• For high standards of ethical conduct in health psychology research please visit APA Science Directorate Research Ethics
• Society of Health Psychology’s journal: Health Psychology
• The APA Center for Psychology and Health works to secure psychology’s role in the overall improvement of health and health care in the United States
• Society of Health Psychology’s Official Publication: The Health Psychologist
• Health Psychology Research: Division 38 Video Series

Ali A. Weinstein, PhD
Chair
George Mason University, Department of Global and Community Health

Amanda Almond, PhD
Vice Chair Health Research Council

Joshua F. Wiley, PhD
Vice-Chair, Health Research Council

Allison Carroll, PhD
Research Communications Liaison

KayLoni Olson, PhD
Student Liaison to Health Research Council

Lydia Wu, BA, BS
Diversity Council Liaison to Health Research Council

Dominic Ysidron
Graduate Student Representative

Deborah Ragin, PhD
Member, Health Research Council

Renee Magnan, PhD
Researcher on Call Series Leader

Mary Amanda Dew, PhD
Member, Health Research Council

Shawna L. Ehlers, PhD
Member, Health Research Council

Carolyn Tucker, PhD
Member, Health Research Council

Kathleen Torsney, PhD
Member, Health Research Council

Matthew M. Burg, PhD
Member, Health Research Council

Doerte Junghaenel, PhD
Member, Health Research Council

Elizabeth Seng, PhD
Yeshiva University