Terrie Moffitt, Ph.D., receives 2018 NIH Matilda White Riley Distinguished Lecture Award
NIH’s Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research has awarded the 2018 NIH Matilda White Riley Disting ...
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Recent announcements from the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR) and National Institutes of Health (NIH) as well as recent stories in the news about OBSSR.
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Exploring Declines in Childhood Obesity in Four Communities
Childhood Obesity published six papers highlighting findings from the National Collaborative on Childhood Obes ...
Behavioral and Social Sciences Research and the NIH Response to the Opioid Crisis
On March 5-6, 2018, the OBSSR in collaboration with the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), the National ...
Evaluation of a mid-career investigator career development award: Assessing the ability of OppNet K18 awardees to obtain NIH follow-on research funding
The National Institutes of Health K18 award mechanism provides funded opportunities for established investigat ...
NIH policies on experimental studies with humans
The recently updated US National Institutes of Health clinical trials policies will apply broadly to studies i ...
Trends report: Psychology is more popular than ever
Good news for psychologists: Job prospects are strong, and an ever-growing number of Americans are being expos ...
OBSSR Director William T. Riley, Ph.D., awarded the Obesity Society’s 2017 eHealth/mHealth Pioneer Award
The Obesity Society (TOS) promotes, rewards, and encourages research in the field of obesity through its annua ...
The NIH Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research Welcomes New Deputy Director Dr. Christine Hunter
The NIH Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR) is pleased to welcome Christine Hunter, Ph.D ...
How to help social and behavioral research findings make their way into practice settings
By William T. Rile, Ph.D. “Why fund behavioral intervention research if the interventions found effect ...
Open opportunities to do collaborative research
The National Institutes of Health is the world's biggest public funder of biomedical research, investing more ...
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