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December 12, 2008
Retreat Refreshes Behavioral, Social Sciences

Dr. Christine Bachrach, acting director of the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research, wanted just one thing out of the first-ever day-long retreat for NIH’s widely dispersed community of behavioral and social scientists, held Nov. 12 at Natcher Bldg.


December 12, 2008
CBT4CBT
New Hope for Treatment of Addiction


Drug addiction is notoriously tough to treat, but now research is showing a fresh way to tackle the problem. It’s called computer-based training for cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT4CBT)


OBSSR’s Mabry Wins with Systems Analysis Team


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Calendar

January 22, 2009, ­ 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Sex, Drugs, and Viral Load: Integrating HIV/AIDS Prevention and Treatment


January 28-29, 2009 Dissemination and Implementation Conference


Reminder — PLEASE DISTRIBUTE
July 12-24, 2009
OBSSR/NIH Summer Training Institute on Randomized Clinical Trials Involving Behavioral Interventions

APPLICATIONS DUE Midnight on Sunday, January 4, 2009
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Videocasts

The Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR) sponsors several Lectures and Seminars covering topics related to the behavioral and social sciences. Many OBSSR sponsored lectures are videocast and available on the BSSR Lecture Series videocast page: http://videocast.nih.gov/PastEvents.asp?c=82. The videocasts are free of charge, open to the general public and posted approximately one week after the lecture concludes.

To learn more please visit the Web page at http://www.nih.gov/news/radio/nihpodcast.htm

Behavioral and Social Sciences

Modeling Social Behavior (Day 1), Wednesday, November 26, 2008

NIGMS and OBSSR
Total Running Time: 240 minutes

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Modeling Social Behavior (Day 2), Wednesday, November 26, 2008

NIGMS and OBSSR
Total Running Time: 570 minutes

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Life-span Development of Expertise, Friday, October 24, 2008

Neil Charness, PhD, William G. Chase Professor of Psychology, Florida State University
Total Running Time: 01:10:24

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Computer-based Training in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT4CBT): New Directions for Behavioral Therapies Research, Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Kathleen M. Carroll, Ph.D., Yale University
Total Running Time: 01:14:17

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Looking for Causes in All the Wrong Places: Upstream Social Determinants of Downstream Health Disparities, Thursday, June 19, 2008

Dr. John B. McKinlay of the New England Research Institute
Total Running Time: 01:17:39

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Making The Business Case For Value-based Health Care Purchasing, Thursday, May 15, 2008

Dr. Ronald C. Kessler of Harvard Medical School
Total Running Time: 01:12:25

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Systems Science and Health

Person-to-Person Spread of Health Behaviors in a Large Social Network, Thursday, March 20, 2008

Nicholas A. Christakis, MD, PhD, MPH, Harvard Medical School
Total Running Time: 01:07:19

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Systems Methodologies for Solving Real-World Problems: Applications in Public Health Thursday, March 22, 2007

Patty Mabry, Ph.D., Bobby Milstein, Ph.D., M.P.H., John Sterman, Ph.D. and Ken McLeroy, Ph.D.
Total Running Time: 02:08:59

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**Sorry, slides not available for this lecture
Systems Network Analysis: Using Connections and Structures to Understand and Change Health Behaviors, Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Katherine Faust, University of California and Thomas Valente, University of Southern California
Total Running Time: 02:01:33

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**Slides and other reference info available as .pdf files here.
Agent Based Modeling: Population Health from the Bottom Up, Friday, July 13, 2007

Joshua Epstein and Michael Macy
Total Running Time: 01:57:55

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**Slides available as .pdf files at here.
System Dynamics Modeling: Population Flows, Feedback Loops and Health, Thursday, August 30, 2007

Jack Homer, Homer Consulting and George Richardson, State University of New York
Total Running Time: 02:04:40

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**Slides available as .pdf files at here.
Thank you for your interest in our 2007 Symposia Series on Systems Science and Health.

To watch any of the events in the four-part series,

  1. Point your browser to: www.videocast.nih.gov
  2. Scroll down to "Past Events" - click on arrow next to "Past events"
  3. Select "special" - third item on the list
  4. Scroll through the list until you see the talk date and Title (talks are in reverse chronological order by date presented)
  5. Click the "play video" button next to the talk or select "Podcast" to download audio or video podcast

The videocast/podcast archive of these events will be available indefinitely.

There are four symposia in the series. Here are the Titles/dates:

  • March 22, 2007 John Sterman & Kenneth McLeroy
    Systems Methodologies for Solving Real-World Problems: Applications in Public Health.

  • June 12, 2007 Katherine Faust & Thomas Valente
    Network Analysis: Using Connections and Structures to Understand and Change Health Behaviors

  • July 13, 2007 Joshua Epstein & Michael Macy
    Agent Based Modeling: Population Health from the Bottom Up

  • August 30, 2007 Jack Homer & George Richardson
    System Dynamics Modeling: Population Flows, Feedback Loops & Health

Approximately one week after each symposium, speaker slides, bibliographies, recommended readings and other relevant materials will be available as downloadable .pdf files and will remain posted indefinitely at: http://obssr.od.nih.gov/news_and_events/lectures_and_seminars/systems_symposia_series/seminars.aspx

***Note that we have been experiencing delays in getting speaker slides posted to the website. In the meantime you may contact Patty Mabry (mabryp@od.nih.gov) if you wish to have slides or other symposia materials sent to you via email. Speaker slides will not be made available for the first symposium.

Also Available on videocast/podcast:

  • May 30-31 University of Michigan Complex Systems Approaches to Population Health

To watch this conference:

  • Point your browser to: www.videocast.nih.gov
  • Scroll down to "Past Events" - click on arrow next to "Past events"
  • Select "Conferences" - second on the list
  • Scroll through the list until you see the talk date and Title
  • Note: conference Day 1 and Day 2 are listed separately and are next to each other on the list.
Please share this information widely.