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Home > About OBSSR > Strategic Plan > Strategic Plan 2007
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Strategic Plan 2007
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The National Institutes of Health's Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR) has released, The Contributions of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research to Improving the Health of the Nation: A Prospectus for the
Future. OBSSR is pleased to present our strategic prospectus. The document was developed over a year of consensus building and deliberation.
The prospectus addresses strategic recommendations for future research priorities in the behavioral and social sciences. If addressed, these priorities
can make a substantial and critical contribution to the mission of the National Institutes of Health to improve the Nation's health and wellbeing.
Welcome to the OBSSR Strategic Planning website. OBSSR is updating its strategic plan. To anticipate, meet, and set priorities for behavioral and social
science research, training, resources, and technologies, we requests input from scientists, members of the public, and all interested parties. The goal
of this strategic planning process is to identify the core areas of basic and applied (i.e. clinical, dissemination, and policy) behavioral and social
sciences research that hold extraordinary opportunities to extend healthy life and reduce the burdens of illness and disability.
In 1993, the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR) was established by Congress in the Office of the Director, NIH, in recognition of
the key role that behavioral and social factors often play in illness and health. The mission of the office is to stimulate behavioral and social
sciences research throughout NIH and to integrate these areas of research more fully into others of the NIH health research enterprise, thereby
improving our understanding, treatment, and prevention of disease. OBSSR also endeavors to insure that findings from behavioral and social sciences
research are disseminated to the public and the scientific community.
Specifically, OBSSR promotes studies to evaluate the contributions of behavioral, social and lifestyle determinants in the development, course,
treatment, and prevention of illness and related public health problems. OBSSR also endeavors to insure that findings from behavioral and social
sciences research are disseminated to the public and the scientific community. As defined in the 1996 strategic plan, the major responsibilities of the
office and its director are to:
- Provide leadership and direction in the development, refinement, and implementation of a trans-NIH plan to increase the scope of and support for
behavioral and social sciences research;
- Inform and advise the NIH director and other key officials of trends and developments having significant bearing on the missions of the NIH,
DHHS, and other federal agencies;
- Serve as the principal NIH spokesperson regarding research on the importance of behavioral, social, and lifestyle factors in the causation,
treatment, and prevention of diseases; and to advise and consult on these topics with NIH scientists and others within and outside the federal
government;
- Develop a standard definition of “behavioral and social sciences research,” assess the current levels of NIH support for this
research, and develop an overall strategy for the uniform expansion and integration of these disciplines across NIH institutes and centers;
- Develop initiatives designed to stimulate research in the behavioral and social sciences arena, integrate a bio-behavioral perspective across
the research areas of the NIH, and encourage he study of behavioral and social sciences across NIH's institutes and centers;
- Initiate and promote studies to evaluate the contributions of behavioral, social, and lifestyle determinants in the development, course,
treatment, and prevention of illness and related public health problems;
- Provide leadership in ensuring that findings from behavioral and social sciences research are disseminated to the public; and,
- Sponsor seminars, symposia, workshops, and conferences at the NIH and at national and social sciences research.
NIH is the steward of medical and behavioral research for the Nation. Its mission is science in pursuit of fundamental knowledge about the nature and
behavior of living systems and the application of that knowledge to extend healthy life and reduce the burdens of illness and disability.
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