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December 12, 2008
Retreat Refreshes Behavioral, Social Sciences
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January 28-29, 2009 Dissemination and Implementation Conference
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July 12-24, 2009
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May 3-8, 2009
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May 22-25, 2009
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Note: Throughout references are made to the Health and Behavior Coordinating Committee (HBCC), which was the
immediate predecessor to the Behavioral and Social Sciences Research Coordinating Committee. With the formation of the Office
of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR) within the Office of the NIH Director in late 1995,
the HBCC become an advisor committee to OBSSR and consequently changed its name and broaden the scope of its responsibilities
and activities.
In response to Congressional requests, the HBCC has prepared several extensive reports summarizing research initiatives and projects
supported and planned by the NIH Institutes, Centers, and Divisions (ICDs). Most recently, in conjunction with the NIH Office of
Disease Prevention, the HBCC participated in the development and preparation of the NIH Implementation Plan for Health and
Behavior Research that was requested by Congress as a guide to increasing the level of support for health and behavior at the NIH.
Each ICD contributed to the plan by specifying initiatives (topics) and professional judgment budgets to foster health and behavior
research in its areas of concern.
- NIH Health and Behavior Research: Report to Congress, November 1991
- NIH Implementation Plan for Health and Behavior Research: Report to Congress, September 1993
Limited quantities of these reports are available upon request.
In addition to discussions at the monthly BSSR-CC meetings among IC representatives regarding current and planned activities
(e.g., Requests for Applications, program announcements), BSSR-CC members serve or have served on other permanent and ad hoc
trans-NIH committees such as the Disease Prevention Coordinating Committee and the NIH Reunion Task Force. The latter was established
for one year (commencing in September, 1993) to facilitate the merger of the NIMH, NIDA and NIAAA into the NIH community, promote
intramural and extramural collaboration, heighten the visibility of neuroscience and the psychosocial sciences, introduce the
NIH community to research programs on the mental and addictive disorders, and to serve as a liaison to consumer and professional
organizations. The Task Force identified several subject areas of shared interest across Institutes and organized working
groups that planned public presentations on the state of the science in such areas as "AIDS Risk Behaviors,
" "Psychoneuroimmunology
," "Eating Disorders," "Compliance/Adherence to Medical Regimens," "Neuroscience and Behavior,"
"Family Research," and "Gender, Ethnic and Age Differences in Pharmacology and Toxicology."
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Seminar Series
The HBCC convened a trans-NIH Conference on Biobehavioral Pain Research: Assessing the Need for a Multi-Agency Research Agenda
in January, 1994. Sponsored by multiple ICDs and the Fetzer Institute (a private foundation), the goals of the conference were to:
(1) evaluate and summarize current knowledge concerning biobehavioral aspects of pain, recognizing the complex interplay of
biological, environmental, cultural, and behavioral processes in the experience and expression of human pain; (2) identify critical
research needs and key findings appropriate for broader dissemination, and (3) initiate a process for enhancing interdisciplinary
collaboration and interagency cooperation in pain research. A trans-NIH program announcement was issued based upon the conference.
The HBCC initiated, organized, and convened two seminar series on Women's Health and Behavior (FY 1992) and Women's Health
(FY 1993). The former was funded by the NIH Office of the Director and the latter by the Office of Women's Health Research.
Both were cosponsored with the Advisory Committee on Women's Health Issues of the Office of Women's Health Research and both
focused on behavioral and social issues in the health of women.
The HBCC urged the Director, NIH, to include behavioral and social research in the NIH initiative on tuberculosis, which emphasized
the development of new drugs, but did not clearly articulate a role within NIH for research on the behavioral and social
conditions fostering the development of treatment-resistant strains of tuberculosis or on the problems associated with
delivery of treatments. In order to define this role, the HBCC convened a seminar series on behavioral and social factors in
tuberculosis in FY 1994. This has stimulated ICD initiatives, including co-organizing and co-sponsoring with the
Centers for Disease Control (CDC) a major
workshop in August, 1994 as well as the development of a Request for Applications for Behavioral Interventions for the Control
of Tuberculosis by the NHLBI's Division of Lung Diseases.
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Improving tuberculosis treatment and control: an agenda for behavioral, social,
and health services research. Proceedings of Tuberculosis and Behavioral National Workshop on Research for the 21st Century;
1994 Aug 28-30; Bethesda (MD). Atlanta, CDC, 1995
The National Institute of Mental Health, the NIH Health and Behavior Coordinating Committee, and the Fetzer Institute
(a private foundation) organized and convened the National Working Conference on Research Frontiers in Behavioral
Medicine in July, 1993. The merger of the research components of the former ADAMHA Institutes with the other NIH Institutes
provided a unique opportunity to consider how to most effectively coordinate and, where appropriate, expand behavioral medicine
research both within and across the ICDs.
The objectives of this conference were to: (1) identify and set priorities for the most important unresolved generic and
disease-specific behavioral medicine research issues; (2) review the spectrum of existing and planned program initiatives across ICDs,
and (3) to develop recommendations for a comprehensive, NIH-wide behavioral medicine research agenda. Participants included
extramural scientists representing the broad spectrum of behavioral medicine research as well as NIH program and review
staff representatives.
- New Research Frontiers in Behavioral Medicine: Proceedings of the National Conference. NIH Publication No. 94-3772.
Printed 1994. Available from the U.S. Government Printing Office, ISBN 0-16-045281-3
Limited copies are available from the NIMH upon request. |
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