Training and Career Development

The NIH provides funding to scientists through a variety of mechanisms supporting research, training, and scientific conferences. For up-to-date information on NIH granting policies and available research and training grant mechanisms, visit the Home Page for the NIH Office of Extramural Research. For more detailed information regarding research and training opportunities at the NIH, please visit the website at: http://www.training.nih.gov/.

The OBSSR develops and coordinates training and career development opportunities with the NIH Institutes and Centers.  The following are training and career development activities sponsored by the OBSSR.

	Fiscal Year 2008
	Summer Institute on Health Services Research: Cross-Systems Research to Improve     Health Outcomes, July 27-August 1, 2008, Bethesda, MD.   Eighth Annual Summer Training Institute on Randomized Clinical Trials Involving     Behavioral Interventions, July 13-25, 2008, Airlie, VA.
	Fiscal Year 2007
	Supported the Seventh Annual Summer Training Institute on Randomized Clinical Trials Involving Behavioral Interventions, July 15-27, 2007, Airlie, VA. Summer Institute on Design and Development of Quantitative Research on Social Work Interventions in Health, July 9-13, 2007, Chicago, IL.
	Fiscal Year 2006
	Supported the Sixth Annual Summer Training Institute on Randomized Clinical Trials Involving Behavioral Interventions, July 9-21, 2006, Airlie, VA.   Summer Institute on Design and Development of Quantitative Research on Social Work Interventions in Health,  July 23 - 28 2006, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
	Fiscal Year 2005
	Supported the Fifth Annual Summer Training Institute on Randomized Clinical Trials Involving Behavioral Interventions, July 24-August 5, 2005, Airlie, VA.
	NIH Summer Institute on Behavioral and Social Intervention Research, July 18-22, 2005, Washington, DC.
	Fiscal Year 2004
	Supported the NIH Summer Institute: The Design and Conduct of Qualitative and Mixed-Method Research in Social Work and Other Health Professions, August 4-8, 2004, Washington, DC.
	Supported the Fourth Annual Summer Training Institute on Randomized Clinical Trials Involving Behavioral Interventions, July 11-23, 2004, Airlie, VA.
	Fiscal Year 2003
	Summer Training Institute for the Design and Conduct of Randomized Clinical Trials Involving Behavioral Interventions, July 20-August 1, 2003, Airlie, VA.
	NIH Training Symposium Series: Issues in the  Design and Conduct of Randomized Clinical Trials Involving Behavioral Interventions, January-June 2003, Bethesda, MD.
	Fiscal Year 2002
	Summer Training Institute for the Design and Conduct of Randomized Clinical Trials Involving Behavioral Interventions, July 28-August 9, 2002, Airlie, VA.

	Fiscal Year 2001
	Summer Training Institute for the Design and Conduct of Randomized Clinical Trials Involving Behavioral Interventions, July 29-August 10, 2001, Airlie, VA.
	Fiscal Year 1999
	Re-issuance of the Trans-NIH RFA on Educational Workshops in Interdisciplinary Research Development of Research Supplements for Underrepresented Minorities Program, through which investigators with NIH grants may receive research support for underrepresented minorities on their grants. In order to facilitate the use of this program among behavioral and social scientists, the OBSSR has developed a web page that will link underrepresented minority students with potential research mentors. This program was awarded Information Technology Innovation Funds from the National Partnership for Reinventing Government.
	Fiscal Year 1997
	Co-sponsorship of the OBSSR/ Association of Black Sociologists of a grantsmanship workshop Development of the Trans-NIH RFA on Educational Workshops in Interdisciplinary Research Training