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December 12, 2008
Retreat Refreshes Behavioral, Social Sciences
Dr. Christine Bachrach
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
Dr. Kathleen Carroll
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
OBSSR’s Mabry Wins with Systems Analysis Team
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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 Click Here
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Helen I. Meissner, ScM, PhD Senior Advisor Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research
Helen Meissner, Sc.M., Ph.D. was recently named senior advisor in the NIH Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR)
where she is responsible for public health and population science based initiatives. Prior to joining OBSSR in October 2008, Dr.
Meissner served as chief of the National Cancer Institute's Applied Cancer Screening Research Branch where she provided scientific
leadership in support of social, behavioral and communications research to promote the use of effective cancer screening tests in both
community and clinical practice.
Dr. Meissner's research interests include psychosocial, socioeconomic and environmental influences on health behavior, development of
methods and refinement of measures to improve evaluation of behavioral interventions and health disparities. She has over 60
peer-reviewed publications, and serves as an associate editor for Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention. Dr. Meissner has
served on many NIH, scientific and professional organization committees including the NCI Extramural Advisory Board and the American
Association for Cancer Research Task Force on Behavioral Science. She has been recognized with four NIH Merit Awards, a Public Health
Service Special Recognition Award and a Department of Health and Human Services Special Service Award.
Prior to joining NCI in 1988, Dr. Meissner was employed at the American Public Health Association where she provided technical
assistance to State and local health departments in their efforts to plan, implement and evaluate community preventive health
services programs.
Dr. Meissner received both her Sc.M. in Public Health Education and her Ph.D. in Social and Behavioral Sciences from the Johns
Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Contact Details
Email: meissneh@mail.nih.gov
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