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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Event Date: September 14, 2021, 2:00 pm
Presenter: Erich D. Jarvis, Ph.D.

Dr. Jarvis proposes a motor theory of vocal learning origin in which brain pathways for vocal learning evolved by brain pathway duplication of an ancestral motor learning pathway using mostly the same genes, but with some divergences in gene…

Event Date: July 20, 2021, 2:00 pm
Presenter: Elizabeth A. Howell, M.D., MPP

Dr. Howell described the intertwined racial and ethnic disparities in maternal and infant mortality. She introduced a framework that describes the complex web of factors that contribute to these disparities. The model also described pathways…

Event Date: March 23, 2021, 2:00 pm
Presenter: Rebecca Cunningham, M.D.

This presentation provided an overview of violence prevention among Emergency Department patients including the CDC best practice program SafERteens. Participants will understand the longitudinal outcomes of Emergency Department youth regarding…

Event Date: May 19, 2020, 2:00 pm
Presenter: John Besley, Ph.D.

Dr. Besley studies public opinion about science and scientists’ opinions about the public in the context of trying to help science communicators be more strategic. He wants to understand how views about decision-makers and decision processes…

Event Date: September 24, 2019, 2:00 pm
Presenter: Felicia Hill-Briggs, Ph.D., ABPP

In the era of transformation to value-based care, new accountability is placed on health care delivery systems to provide high quality care that improves the health of populations, improves the patient experience of care, and concurrently reduce…