The research we conduct at the Center for Addictions, Personality, and Emotion Research (CAPER) at the University of Maryland is focused on the underlying determinants of substance use. We study addiction as a process and try to understand the factor…

Ann Marie White, Ed.D., a mental health researcher at the University of Rochester, and Melanie Funchess, the director of the Mental Health Association of Rochester, teamed up a decade ago to bring violence prevention research and community action tog…

As part of the medical ethics and the health care system module of our course at The University of North Carolina School of Medicine (UNCSOM), we consider coercion and involuntary treatment and the role each plays within the health care system. In th…

I became interested in this field about 7 years ago when I was trying to think of new interventions that might help people with chronic diseases, particularly diabetes. My father, 88 years old, had diabetes, and he did a great job of testing his bloo…

The Aqui Lá project, supported by the OBSSR and the NIH's National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities, works with a multilevel framework to conceptualize the impact of culture and transnationalism on health. Aqui Lá,…

Eric brings a wealth of health innovation experience to the PMI effort as a social scientist and researcher, entrepreneur and business leader, patient and patient advocate, and policy advocate and thought leader. He has pioneered and co-founded some…

An emerging body of literature demonstrates that physicians, like the general population, display implicit bias even as they deny bias on measures that directly ask about their attitudes and opinions. Much of this work has centered on bias toward Afr…

In understanding the cause of many diseases, the search for genes has moved from the identification of rare high-risk variants to that of common low-risk variants. The size of samples required for adequate power has correspondingly increased. In the…

Our trusted clinical treatment research methods have served us well, but many of them, at least in their current form, are in need of significant upgrade and transformation. These changes are needed not just because of technological advances; the pre…

Understanding the way patients think and behave is critical for effective care. That theme is paramount in a workshop to be hosted by the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR), in collaboration with the Behavioral and Social Scien…