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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 28-29, 2009 Dissemination and Implementation Conference
February 9, 2009, 10:00 – 11:00 AM
Stigma: Lessons & New Directions from a Decade of Research on Mental Illness
July 12-24, 2009
OBSSR/NIH Summer Training Institute on Randomized Clinical Trials Involving Behavioral Interventions
May 3-8, 2009
Institute on Systems Science and Health
May 22-25, 2009
Gene-Environment Interplay in Stress and Health at the Association for Psychological Science 21st Annual Convention, San Francisco, CA
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Former Directors of the Office |
Norman B. Anderson, Ph.D.
Founding Director, 1995-2000
Dr. Norman B. Anderson is the former and founding Director of the NIH Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR), and was
the first NIH Associate Director for Behavioral and Social Sciences Research, serving from 1995 - 2000. At NIH, he was charged with
facilitating behavioral and social sciences research across all of the [then] 24 Institutes and Centers of the National Institutes of Health.
Appointed by then NIH Director Dr. Harold Varmus, Dr. Anderson worked closely with the scientific community to quickly establish the office’s
long-term goals, and to develop strategies for achieving them. In this regard, he led the effort to develop the first Strategic Plan for OBSSR,
which has guided the office’s work until 2006. Among the office’s numerous activities and accomplishments during his tenure were its efforts
to foster a “levels of analysis” framework for NIH, showing the interdependence and importance of all levels of research for accelerating
advances in health science and health care (see for example, Anderson, 1998, Levels of analysis in health science: A framework for integrating
socio-behavioral and biomedical research, Annals of the NY Academy of Sciences, 840, 563).
Dr. Anderson is currently the Chief Executive Officer and Executive Vice President of the American Psychological Association (APA). Headquartered on
Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, APA is the largest scientific and professional association for psychologists in the United States, with over 150,000
members, a staff of nearly 600, and a budget of over $100 million. As Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Anderson is responsible for overseeing both the
corporate and professional management of the association.
Dr. Anderson served for over 12 years as a professor at Duke University Medical School, where he directed the NIH-funded Exploratory Center for Research on Health Promotion in Older Minorities, and directed the Program on Health, Behavior, and Aging in Black Americans. He also served for a short time on
the faculty of the Harvard School of Public Health. His research and writing on the effects of stress on biology and risk for hypertension among African Americans have received several awards from scientific societies, including the 1991 Award for Outstanding Contributions to Health Psychology from the
American Psychological Association.
Dr. Anderson is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Psychological Association, the Association for
Psychological Science, the Society of Behavioral Medicine, and the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research. He is a Past-President of the Society of
Behavioral Medicine, and is also Past-President of the Board of Directors for filmmaker Steven Spielberg’s Starbright Foundation of Los Angeles.
Dr. Anderson chaired the National Academy of Science’s Panel on the Future of Research on Race, Ethnicity, and Health in Later Life.
Among his numerous publications, Dr. Anderson is the Editor-in-Chief of The Encyclopedia of Health and Behavior and is the author of a health book for
lay audiences enTitled, Emotional Longevity: What Really Determines How Long You Live. Dr. Anderson is also Editor-in-Chief of APA’s flagship
journal, American Psychologist.
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