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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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Lectures and Seminars

National Institutes of Health
Behavioral and Social Sciences Seminar Series
Winter 2008


Social Stratification and Health: Is There a Developmental Biology of Misfortune?
W. Thomas Boyce, M. D.

University of British Columbia
January 25, 2008 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Neuroscience Building, 6001 Executive Blvd, Rockville MD, Room C

Person-to-Person Spread of Health Behaviors in a Large Social Network
Nicholas Christakis, M. D., M. P. H., Ph. D.

Harvard Medical School
March 20, 2008 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Neuroscience Building, 6001 Executive Blvd, Rockville MD, Room C

Marital Relationships and Well-Being: An Examination of African American Couples
Chalandra M. Bryant, Ph. D.

Pennsylvania State University
April 11, 2008 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM
Neuroscience Building, 6001 Executive Blvd, Rockville MD, Room C

Making The Business Case For Value-based Health Care Purchasing
Ronald C. Kessler, Ph. D.

Harvard Medical School
May 15, 2008 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Neuroscience Building, 6001 Executive Blvd, Rockville MD, Room C

Third Annual Matilda White Riley Lecture in Behavioral and Social Sciences Looking for Causes in All The Wrong Places: Upstream Social Determinants of Downstream Health Disparities
John B. McKinlay, Ph. D.

New England Research Institutes
June 19, 2008 3:00 PM to 4:30 PM
Shannon Building (1), Wilson Hall