There are many benefits from living in more diverse and integrated neighborhoods, and a recently published study funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) pro ...
Increasing Mortality of Working Class Whites Reveals How Long-Term Economic Factors Contribute to Health Disparities
Last month in a report prepared for the Brookings Panel on Economic Activity titled “Mortality and morbidity in the 21st century,” Anne Case and Nobel Laureate Angus Deaton provided a more in-depth analysis of their grou ...
Opioid Abuse Is a Behavioral and Social Systems Problem
Opioid Abuse has rapidly become a public health epidemic. The CDC reports that while the amount of overall pain that patients report has not changed, the amount of prescription opioids sold in the U.S. has quadrupled si ...
Meet the New OBSSR Staff!
When I was named director of the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research in August, 2015, we had almost as many unfilled as filled positions in the office. We could have moved quickly to fill these positions, ...
Behavioral and Social Sciences Research Well Represented Among the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)
Earlier this month, the fiscal year 2014 recipients of the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) were announced. PECASE is the highest honor bestowed by the United States Government on s ...
NIH’s BSSR portfolio: Research poised to make a healthier difference in people’s lives
The Inaugural NIH Behavioral and Social Sciences Research Festival was held December 2, 2016. This event was hosted jointly by the NIH Behavioral and Social Sciences Coordinating Committee (BSSR-CC) and the NIH Office o ...
Understanding behavioral, social, and biological interactions to turn discovery into health: OBSSR’s new strategic plan
Today, the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR) releases its Strategic Plan 2017 to 2021. In concert with this release, Science Translational Medicine has published an editorial by Francis ...
New NIH Clinical Trials Policies: Implications for Behavioral and Social Science Researchers
Last month, the NIH released new policies and related efforts to improve our stewardship, accountability, and transparency of clinical trials. NIH is the largest funder of clinical trials in the U.S., and these multi-fa ...
Learning the ABCD: A landmark study of adolescent brain and cognitive development
By William Riley, Ph.D., OBSSR Director Far too many times as a teenager, after displaying a clear lack of judgment, my parents would ask, “What were you thinking?” I suspect that this is a common question of many par ...
UPDATE NEEDED: Graduate training in behavioral and social sciences…2.0?
By William Riley, Ph.D., OBSSR Director Graduate training in the behavioral and social sciences remains largely unchanged from the training I received as a graduate student 35 years ago. While the ...
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