Award for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology: Daisy R. Singla.

Abstract

The Early Career Awards, given for the first time in 1974, recognize the large number of excellent early career psychologists. Recipients of this award may not have held a doctoral degree for more than nine years. For purposes of this award, psychology has been divided into 10 areas: animal learning and behavior, comparative; developmental; health; cognition/human learning; psychopathology; behavioral and cognitive neuroscience; perception/motor performance; social; applied research; and individual differences. Five areas are considered each year, with areas rotated in two-year cycles. The areas considered in 2021 were animal learning and behavior, comparative; developmental; health; cognition/human learning; and psychopathology. Each year, panels are selected for the areas under consideration, and these panels recommend nominees to the Committee on Scientific Awards. The 2021 recipients of the APA Scientific Contribution Awards were recognized by the 2020 Board of Scientific Affairs and selected by the 2020 Committee on Scientific Awards. For innovative research in the area of global mental health with an emphasis on improving access to evidence-based psychological therapies to historically under-served populations. Daisy R. Singla has emerged as a leader in the strategy of task-sharing of interventions to non-specialist providers, and her work spans the design of culturally adapted interventions, the assessment of competencies, and the implementation of measurement-based peer supervision, in the context of large pragmatic clinical trials in real-world settings in three continents. Her work also incorporates rigorous tests of moderation and mediation in the process of reducing inequities in access to evidence-based mental health care. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).