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This article provides materials and lessons learned from the NIH Workplace Climate and Harassment Survey to guide scientific institutions doing similar workforce surveys.

With enormous gratitude for his many contributions to behavioral and social sciences research (BSSR) at the NIH, I announce that William (Bill) T. Riley, Ph.D., will be retiring from NIH at the end of December 2021. For the past 7 years in his dua…

NIH awards 10 grants addressing firearm violence prevention research.
To better understand the current pain and opioid public heath crises, the American Journal of Public Health (AJPH), in collaboration with the National Institutes of Health’s Office of Behavioral and Social Science Research, invites articles that focu…