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NIH Opportunity Network to Expand Basic Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OppNet)
November 18, 2009
National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Francis Collins, M.D., Ph.D., today announced the launch of the Basic Behavioral and Social Science Opportunity Network (OppNet).
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.
May 3-8, 2009
OBSSR Holds First Institute on Systems Science and Health
OBSSR and CDC teamed up to produce the first Institute on Systems Science and Health (ISSH) which was held May 3-8, 2009.
March 06, 2009
OBSSR Hosts Conference on Dissemination, Implementation
Harvard Medical School’s
Dr. Jim Yong Kim
As a way to improve public health in a battered world, understanding poverty counts as much as knowing how proteins fold.
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November 20, 2009,
3:00 PM to 4:00 PM
The Challenges and Opportunities of Interdisciplinary Research: The Case of Genetics and Demography
December 2, 2009,
8:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m
SYMPOSIUM #2: EDUCATION
March 15 – 16, 2010
3rd Annual NIH Conference on the Science of Dissemination and Implementation: Methods and Measurement
Registration now open until February 12, 2010
July 11-23, 2010
9th Annual Summer Institute on Design and Conduct of Randomized Clinical Trials (RCT) Involving Behavioral Interventions,
Application Deadline: January 15, 2010
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Previous Annual Matilda White Riley Lecture in the Behavioral and Social Sciences |
 Dr. John McKinlay and Dr. Christine Bachrach
Vice President & Director
New England Research Institutes, Inc.
June 19, 2008
Wilson Hall, Shannon Building
National Institutes of Health
John McKinlay and Christine Bachrach
The NIH Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research awarded the Third Annual Matilda White Riley Lectureship to John. B. McKinlay, Ph.D. Dr. McKinlay is the Senior Vice President and Chief Scientist of the New England Research Institutes (Watertown, Massachusetts). He is an internationally prominent epidemiologist with interests and experience in public health, epidemiologic field studies, clinical decision-making and health policy. He was for several decades a distinguished academic and administrator (at Boston University), holding simultaneous Professorships in Medicine, Biostatistics and Epidemiology and Sociology and directing BU's Center for Health and Advanced Policy Studies and its Gerontology Institute. He has been a Member of the Division of Medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital (Harvard Medical School) for 25 years.
Dr. McKinlay is the recipient of many awards and honors including an NIH MERIT Award, an American Psychological Association award for "Distinguished and Pioneering Contributions to Research on Women's Health," and the American Sociological Association's Leo G. Reeder Award for "Distinguished Contributions to Medical Sociology." He is the author, co-author, or editor of over 250 professional papers and 17 books. Several of his papers have been designated "citation classics".
Dr. McKinlay's career-lifelong commitment to social epidemiology began in his native New Zealand with studies of heart disease among native Maoris and the health consequences of migration by Polynesian Tokelau Islanders. Since 1973, Dr. McKinlay has collaborated on studies of menopause -- culminating in the highly regarded Massachusetts Women's Health Study. His own Massachusetts Male Aging Study (a longitudinal investigation of over 1700 men) continues to make pioneering contributions in such fields as endocrinology, urology, cardiovascular disease, geriatrics and behavioral medicine. Dr. McKinlay is presently leading NIH funded research on the epidemiology of erectile dysfunction (impotence). With support from the NIH he is establishing a population epidemiologic laboratory in the Boston inner-city area involving over 5000 individuals randomly sampled and followed over time. This study is designed to look at a range of urologic conditions as well as diabetes and the metabolic syndrome in men and women of diverse race and ethnicity. With colleagues at the Boston Medical Center, he is conducting the first large epidemiological study (n=1100) of osteoporosis in a racial and ethnically diverse population of aging men. He is also conducting a study (employing complex factorial experimental designs) on nonmedical influences and how they influence clinical decision-making in both the US and the UK. This last area is producing highly relevant results for the rapidly emerging managed care environment in the U.S.
 Dr. John McKinlay
View Videocast of Dr. McKinlay’s Lecture at: http://videocast.nih.gov/launch.asp?14572
 Dr. Carol Ryff and Dr. Burton Singer
University of Wisconsin
Burton H. Singer, Ph.D.
Princeton University
June 6, 2007
Wilson Hall Building 1, 3rd Floor 1 Center Drive
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, Maryland
The NIH Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research is pleased to announce that Carol D. Ryff, Ph.D. (University of Wisconsin) and Burton H. Singer, Ph.D. (Princeton University) are the joint recipients of the Second Matilda White Riley Lecture in the Behavioral and Social Sciences. Carol Ryff and Burt Singer met in 1993 in London at a meeting of researchers from several MacArthur Foundation networks. Prior to that time, she had never done any studies involving biological factors, and he had never done any studies involving psychosocial factors. The nexus between the two became the focus of their intellectual synergy, given her background in psychological well-being and his background in everything else. Their first joint publication discussed mind/body connections and emphasized the paucity of prior work connecting positive psychological factors to biological processes. These ideas were developed in more detail in The Contours of Positive Human Health in which they called for a reformulation of health as health rather than health as disease or illness. Their proposed route into it was via positive psychological and social factors and the neurophysiology that underlies these salubrious aspects of human functioning. Most of their collaborative work since that time has involved assembling empirical evidence that psychosocial well-being has a distinctive neurobiological signature.
Along the way, they also became interested in a science of human health that is fully integrative, taking into account many factors about people’s lives – their socioeconomic standing, significant life experiences, key social relationships, work, and family experiences, psychological outlooks – and how these come together to influence their health. The challenge, of course, is figuring out how to put all of this complexity together. In Life Histories and Mental Health, they generated a conceptual and methodological approach to integrate extensive amounts of longitudinal information to understand resilient women. Another integrative publication entitled “Elective Affinities and Uninvited Agonies: Mapping Emotion with Significant Others onto Health” brought literature and art into the formulation of human health. They had to publish an edited volume, Emotion, Social Relationships, and Health to get such a mélange into the literature.
They served as editors of New Horizons in Health: An Integrative Approach, a National Research Council publication that has been influential in the formation of several NIH initiatives focused on the interface between social and biological sciences. (OBSSR/NIH commissioned this report.) This integrative vision has been at the core of their MIDUS II study (supported by the National Institute on Aging), with the themes of resilience and vulnerability serving as organizing ideas. Relating combinations of biomarker conditions to psychosocial experience represents a central challenge at the heart of their current work.
 Dr. Ronald Abeles, Dr. Carol Ryff, Dr. Burton Singer and Dr. David Abrams
View Videocast of Dr. Ryff and Dr. Singer's Lecture at: http://videocast.nih.gov/launch.asp?13871
David Mechanic, Ph.D. Dr. David Mechanic
Rutgers University
May 22, 2006
3:00 - 4:00 PM
Wilson Hall, Building 1
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, Maryland
The NIH Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research is pleased to have
selected David Mechanic as the first recipient of the Annual Matilda White Riley
NIH Lecture in the Behavioral and Social Sciences. Dr. Mechanic is the Ren Dubos
University Professor of Behavioral Sciences and director of the Institute for Health,
Health Care Policy, and Aging Research at Rutgers University. Formerly with the
University of Wisconsin, he came to Rutgers University in 1979, was Dean of the
Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and established the Rutgers Institute for Health,
Health Care Policy, and Aging Research. He directs the NIMH Center at Rutgers for
Research on the Organization and Financing of Care for the Severely Mentally Ill
and serves as the director of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator
Awards Program in Health Policy Research. A member of the National Academy of
Sciences (NAS), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Institute
of Medicine, he has served on numerous panels of the NAS, federal agencies and
non-profit organizations. He has received many awards, including the Distinguished
Investigator Award from the Association for Health Services Research, the First Carl
Taube Award for Distinguished Contributions to Mental Health Services Research from
the American Public Health Association, and the Distinguished Medical Sociologist
Award and Lifetime Contributions Award in Mental Health from the American Sociological
Association. He has written or edited 24 books and approximately 400 research articles,
chapters and other publications. His research and writing deal with social aspects
of health and health care. He received his Ph.D. in Sociology from Stanford.
 Dr. Raynard Kington, Dr. Ronald Abeles and Dr. David Mechanic
Link to Mechanic's Lecture
Link to Mechanic's PowerPoint slides
View Videocast of Dr. Mechanic' Lecture at: http://videocast.nih.gov/launch.asp?13246
The Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research
(OBSSR)
is pleased to sponsor the annual lecture in the behavioral and social sciences named in honor of Matilda White Riley (1911-2004).
In addition to serving as the Associate Director for Behavioral and Social Research at the
National Institute on Aging,
Dr. Riley provided leadership across the NIH in her role as chairperson of landmark committees regarding
health and behavior. She was co-chair of the joint ADAMHA and NIH Steering Committee for the Institute of
Medicine's Project on Health and Behavior (1979-1982) and chair of the trans-NIH
Working Group on Health and Behavior
(1982-1991). In these capacities she served as the senior NIH spokesperson on the behavioral and social sciences,
encouraged coordination among NIH Institutes, oversaw the production of numerous reports to the Congress on behavioral
research at the NIH, provided advice to several NIH Directors, and initiated the behavioral and social sciences seminar
series at the NIH. In effect, she laid the groundwork for and was the precursor to OBSSR.
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