BSSR News - Archived Posts

Archived announcements from the OBSSR and NIH as well as archived stories in the news about OBSSR.

Archived BSSR News posts by Year

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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…
NIH is participating in the Smart Health and Biomedical Research Interagency Program with National Science Foundation that focuses on era of artificial intelligence and advanced data science.
A small percentage of R01 and U01 grantees fail to publish in a timely manner. Factors including human research, clinical trial research, child research, not being an early stage investigator, and conducting behavioral and social sciences research in…
NIH awarded grants for firearm injury and mortality prevention research.
Research on childhood obesity intervention strategies.
RADx will establish COVID-19 testing technologies.
PhenX COVID-19 Crowdsourcing Effort launched to help create collections of recommended measurement protocols for COVID-19 research.
This commentary describes the various initiatives of the National Institutes of Health to address these social, behavioral, economic, and health disparities impacts of the pandemic, the findings from which can improve our response to the current pand…