NEA and NIH Co-host Live Webinar on New Funding Opportunity on Culture and HealthWebinar will focus on new National Institutes of Health funding opportunity that welcomes arts researchers on teams conducting basic research on social and behavioral aspects of culture, health, and wellbeing For immediate release
You are invited to a live, public webinar How does culture affect health-related beliefs and practices? Artists and arts organizations may help answer this question through a new funding opportunity from the National Institutes of Health. This Request for Applications (RFA) will support research projects that bring together teams of social and behavioral researchers to gain new insights into the relationships between culture and health. OppNet welcomes research teams that include expertise that complements the basic social and behavioral sciences, including the arts. Given OppNet's express mission, applications must have a majority emphasis in basic behavioral and social sciences. NEA co-hosts this webinar with the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR) at the National Institutes of Health. Bill Elwood of OBSSR will present this grant announcement from the NIH Basic Behavioral and Social Science Opportunity Network (OppNet), a trans-NIH initiative that funds activities to build the collective body of knowledge about the nature of behavior and social systems. Also joining the webinar are several NIH program directors who serve as scientific contacts for the OppNET RFA. This is the first time NIH's OppNet initiative has expressly welcomed arts and humanities disciplines in its series of RFAs. For more than a year, the NEA Interagency Task Force on the Arts and Human Development has brought together federal agencies -- including the NIH -- to promote more and better research on how the arts help people reach their full potential at all stages of life. This OppNet RFA coincides with the NEA task force goals. The NEA and the Interagency Task Force periodically host public webinars to share compelling research, practices, and/or funding opportunities for research in the arts and human development. Task Force members include representatives from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Education, and other agencies and departments. More information on the Task Force can be found at http://www.nea.gov/research/convenings.html Guests and speakers
How to join the webinar The webinar is free and open to the public. No registration is required. Media may RSVP to Sally Gifford, NEA Public Affairs Specialist at 202-682-5606 or giffords@arts.gov. To join the webinar, go to http://artsgov.adobeconnect.com/artsdev5/ and check the "Enter as Guest" radio button. Type in your name and click hit "Enter Room" to join. You may listen using your computer's speakers or dial-in to 1-877-685-5350 and use participant code: 739587. Attendees will be muted but able to type in questions and comments through a text Q&A box. Follow the conversation on Twitter @NEAarts with the hashtag #NEAtaskforce. An archive of the webinar will be available on Monday, October 8, 2012 at http://www.arts.gov/research/convenings
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