1:00

NIH Matilda White Riley Behavioral and Social Sciences Honors Opening Remarks

Christine M. Hunter, Ph.D., ABPP
Captain, US Public Health Service
Acting Associate Director for Behavioral and Social Sciences Research, NIH
Acting Director, OBSSR

1:05

NIH Matilda White Riley Early-Stage Investigator Honorees
Q&A follows each presentation

Moderator: Bill Elwood, Ph.D.
MWR ESI Coordinator and Health Scientist Administrator, OBSSR

Noli Brazil, Ph.D.
The multidimensional clustering of health and its ecological risk factors
Assistant Professor
Department of Human Ecology
University of California, Davis

N. Keita Christophe, Ph.D.
Shift-&-Persist and discrimination predicting depression across the life course: An accelerated longitudinal design using MIDUS I-III
Assistant Professor
Wake Forest University
Incoming Assistant Professor
McGill University

Patricia Homan, Ph.D.
Structural intersectionality as a new direction for health disparities research
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Associate Director, Public Health Program
Florida State University

John W. Jackson, Sc.D.
Meaningful causal decompositions in health equity research
Assistant Professor
Departments of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Mental Health
Johns Hopkins University

Alina I. Palimaru, Ph.D., M.P.P.
Mental health, family functioning, and sleep in cultural context among American Indian/Alaska Native urban youth: A mixed methods analysis
Associate Policy Researcher
RAND Corporation

2:50

Break

3:00

Matilda White Riley Distinguished Lecturer
Q&A follows presentation

Moderator: Erica L. Spotts, Ph.D.
Health Scientist Administrator, OBSSR

David R. Williams, Ph.D., M.P.H.
The Virus of Racism: Understanding its Threats, Mobilizing Defenses
Florence & Laura Norman Professor of Public Health
Chair, Department of Social & Behavioral Sciences
Harvard Chan School of Public Health
Professor of African and African American Studies
Harvard University

4:15

Closing Remarks

Wendy Smith, Ph.D., BCB
Associate Director, OBSSR

4:30

Adjourn