NIH OBSSR Director's Webinar Series

OBSSR hosts virtual and in-person meetings that highlight behavioral and social sciences research (BSSR). In coordination with the NIH Institutes, Centers, and Offices, other government agencies, and the wider BSSR community, OBSSR facilitates opportunities to network, collaborate, explore, and advance BSSR.

The NIH OBSSR Director's Webinar Series highlights a variety of BSSR topics to help communicate BSSR findings and other relevant information.

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Past NIH OBSSR Director's Webinars by Year

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Director's Webinar
NIH OBSSR Director's Webinar: Developing a Scientifically Accurate Genetics Curriculum in High School and College Classrooms
Event Date: November 3, 2025, 2:00 pm
Presenter: Robbee Wedow, Ph.D., Purdue University
Despite advancements in genomics, misconceptions about groups persist, often rooted in genetic essentialism—the belief that traits and behaviors are primarily determined by genetics. This perspective overlooks environmental and social influences,…
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NIH OBSSR Director’s Webinar: How Responsible Use of Mobile Device Data Can Advance Our Understanding of Fertility
Event Date: October 22, 2025, 11:00 am
Presenter: Jenna Nobles, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
In this talk, Dr. Nobles will discuss how pregnancy success is sensitive to social, economic, and environmental exposures and that our understanding of these relationships can be advanced significantly through the responsible use of mobile device…
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NIH OBSSR Director’s Webinar: Developing a Geroscience, Medical Science, and Social Science: Explanations for Differences in Aging Health
Event Date: September 24, 2025, 2:00 pm
Presenter: Eileen Crimmins, Ph.D., University of Southern California
Geroscience hypothesizes that all age-related health outcomes are linked to a set of biological processes that collectively produce health deterioration with age. Medical science has identified an increasingly wide array of risk factors for age-…
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NIH OBSSR Director's Webinar: The Neural Code Supporting Multidimensional Social Relationships
Event Date: April 30, 2025, 11:00 am
Presenter: Michael Platt, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
For humans and nonhuman primates alike, deeper and more numerous social connections promote health, well-being, and survival. Precisely how primates navigate the multidimensional social relationships that structure daily life and shape survival and…