NIH OBSSR R25 Short Courses on Innovative Methodologies and Approaches in the Behavioral and Social Sciences Awarded

October 24, 2019 The Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR) was created by Congress in 1993 in recognition of the importance of behavioral and social sciences to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) mission. For more than two decades, the OBSSR has been instrumental in advancing and coordinating the behavioral and social sciences at the NIH. The OBSSR Strategic Plan 2017-2021 addresses current emerging opportunities and challenges that have the potential to transform behavioral and social sciences health research (BSSR) including: (i) improvement in the flow of basic to applied science through the research-product pipeline, (ii) advances in measurement and methodological approaches, and (iii) improvements in the dissemination and implementation of social and behavioral interventions. To address the scientific priorities and the broader NIH efforts in the behavioral and social sciences, the OBSSR will rely on four foundational processes, which are central functions consistent with the OBSSR mission that can be marshalled to meet the objectives of the scientific priorities outlined in this strategic plan. These include (i) communication; (ii) coordination; (iii) training; and (iv) policy and evaluation. To address the third foundational process of training, the OBSSR and participating Institutes and Offices re-issued Short Courses on Innovative Methodologies and Approaches in the Behavioral and Social Sciences (RFA-OD-19-012). This program will support educational activities that complement and/or enhance the training of a workforce to meet the nation's biomedical, behavioral and clinical research needs. This funding opportunity is designed to fill educational gaps and needs in the behavioral and social sciences research community that are not being addressed by existing educational opportunities. OBSSR announces the following recipients: - Debra Haire-Joshu: Mentored Education for Dissemination and Implementation Science (MEDIS) Program - Vivek Shetty: Training Institutes for mobile health (mHealth) methodologies - David B. Allison: Strengthening Causal Inference in Behavioral Obesity Research - Briana M. Mezuk: Summer Training Program in Integrative Methods for Mental and Physical Health - Joseph J. Gallo: Mixed Methods Research Training Program - Linda M. Collins: Optimization of behavioral and biobehavioral interventions: Building investigator capacity nationwide - Kenneth E. Freedland: Innovative Approaches to Randomized Behavioral Clinical Trials The Office of Disease Prevention is providing co-funding for Haire-Joshu, Shetty, and Allison. More information will be forthcoming on the OBSSR website training page as it becomes available. Read the RFA Connect with us

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