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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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Staff

Jennifer Brown Urban, Ph.D.
SRCD Fellow

Dr. Urban is a Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD)/ American Association for the Advancement of Sciences (AAAS) Fellow. Dr. Urban received her doctorate in Human Development at Cornell University and her Bachelor's degree in Psychology and Child Development at Tufts University. At Cornell, her research examined how involvement in youth development programs and other out-of-school activities differentially affects the developmental trajectories of youth living in resource rich versus resource poor neighborhoods. Dr. Urban's second line of research focuses on the effective integration of research, practice, and policy specifically through program evaluation and planning. This research is funded through the National Science Foundation and applies systems thinking and evolutionary concepts to the development of evaluation systems in the context of STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) education. After her fellowship year, Dr. Urban will begin her appointment as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family and Child Studies at Montclair State University.

Contact Details
Email: urbanjb@od.nih.gov