NIH funds numerous institutional initiatives to develop early career researchers; this includes the BIRCWH program, focused on interdisciplinary women’s health researchers, and the KURe program, focused on benign urology researchers. SSRI has partnered with these initiatives at Duke to provide empirical and evaluative support to better understand the effect of the program on scholars’ development. This partnership has focused on the establishment of a clear conceptual framing and data collection infrastructure that can serve these initiatives into future years, as well as inform evaluation and \ research design for scholar development initiatives more broadly.