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NIH’s Role in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA)
NIH is well positioned to fund the best science in pursuit of improving the length and the quality of the lives of our citizens, while at the same time stimulating the economy.


March 06, 2009
OBSSR Hosts Conference on Dissemination, Implementation

As a way to improve public health in a battered world, understanding poverty counts as much as knowing how proteins fold.


March 06, 2009
Research Funders Collaborate To Reduce Childhood Obesity

A new National Collaborative on Childhood Obesity Research (NCCOR) was launched Feb. 19 to accelerate progress on reversing the epidemic of overweight and obesity among U.S. youth.


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Calendar

May 26, 2009, ­ 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Building a Bridge: Transitional Programs from the Criminal Justice to the Community Setting for HIV+ Drug Users


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


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


August 2-7, 2009
2009 NIH Summer Institute on Community-Based Participatory Research Targeting the Medically Underserved

Application Deadline: May 15, 2009


August 9, 2009
Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR): When Academic/Research Institutions Meet the Real World

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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

2009 Dissemination and Implementation Conference

The goal of this conference was for the research community to exchange ideas, explore contemporary topics and identify concepts, methods and strategies to build research and organizational capacity for dissemination and implementation science. For more information, please visit the conference Web site.
Opening Plenary: Bridging the Implementation Gap in Global Health, Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Jim Yong Kim M.D., Ph.D., Harvard Medical Schoool, François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human, Harvard School of Public Health

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**Slides available as .pdf files at here.
Infrastructure Panel, Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Lloyd Michener, MD, Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA)
Mark Hornbrook, PhD, HMO Research Network  **Slides available as .pdf files at here.
Ahmed Calvo, MD, MPH, Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
Eduardo J. Simoes, MD, MSc, MPH, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Linda Wright, MD, The Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)  **Slides available as .pdf files at here.

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Closing Plenary: Beyond Dissemination and Implementation Research: Integrating Evidence and Action, Thursday, January 29, 2009

Roy Cameron, PhD, Center for Behavioral Research and Program Evaluation

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**Slides available as .pdf files at here.

Behavioral and Social Sciences Lecture Series

Below are videocasts of the most recent lectures in the Behavioral Social Sciences Research Lecture Series. Videocasts of previous lectures are found on the NIH Videocasting page. For a full list of previous lectures in this series please visit the Archives page.

Stigma: Lessons & New Directions from a Decade of Research on Mental Illness, Monday, February 09, 2009

Bernice A. Pescosolido, Ph.D., Indiana University
Total Running Time: 01:13:03

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Sex, Drugs and Viral Load: Integrating HIV/AIDS Prevention and Treatment, Thursday, January 22, 2009

Seith Kalichman, Ph.D., University of Connecticut
Total Running Time: 01:03:10

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Emerging Balance between Reward Systems and Risk Taking in Adolescence: Implications for Developing, Thursday, December 11, 2008

Linda C. Mayes, M.D., Yale University
Total Running Time: 01:16:30

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Welfare Reform: Long-Term Implications for the Development of Children, Adolescents and Young Adults, Thursday, November 13, 2008

P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale, Ph.D., Northwestern University
Total Running Time: 00:58:50

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2007 Symposia Series on Systems Science and Health

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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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.

Other Videocasts

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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Complex Systems Approaches to Population Health - Day 1 , Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Total Running Time: 06:16:19

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Complex Systems Approaches to Population Health - Day 2 , Thursday, May 31, 2007

Total Running Time: 06:25:38

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

Total Running Time: 240 minutes

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

Total Running Time: 570 minutes

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