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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
Harvard Medical School’s
Dr. Jim Yong Kim
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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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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Home > About OBSSR > Staff
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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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