Research Priority 1: Collaborative Science
Improving health requires a comprehensive and collaborative approach that integrates BSSR within the health research enterprise, creating an environment for synergistic scientific inquiry. For example, during the COVID-19 pandemic, critical BSSR questions emerged that can be generalized across health domains.
Goal 1: Integrate and Coordinate Behavioral and Social Sciences Research Across the National Institutes of Health
Goal 2: Build a Cumulative Behavioral and Social Sciences Research Knowledge Base
Goal 3: Enhance and Connect Basic and Applied Behavioral and Social Sciences Research
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Research Priority 2: Innovative Scientific Investigation
Encouraging innovation and rigor in research measurement, experimental designs, and data analytics used in BSSR will accelerate scientific advances and support a more comprehensive and seamless integration of BSSR into the larger health research enterprise. Across BSSR disciplines, support is needed for the development and use of more advanced, multilevel, and harmonizable measurement approaches.
Goal 1: Refine BSSR Measurement
Goal 2: Promote Novel Experimental Designs
Goal 3: Advance Data Analytics
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Research Priority 3: Implementation, Dissemination, and Equitable Impact
Too often, a gap exists between what is efficacious in well-controlled intervention research and what happens when those interventions are implemented in real-world clinical or community settings. Indeed, studies have shown it takes an average of 17 years to implement research results in clinical practice.
Goal 1: Encourage Rigorous and Innovative Implementation and Dissemination Research Methods
Goal 2: Center Health Equity in Implementation and Dissemination Research
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