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Dear Colleagues:
The 13th NIH Matilda White Riley Behavioral and Social Sciences Honors will be held on Monday, June 8, 2020, from 9:00 am to Noon ET, via WebEx. View the meeting agenda and register today: https://bit.ly/nihmwr2020.
This year marks OBSSR's 25th anniversary, and we have an exceptional slate of honorees who will present recent and exciting innovations in behavioral and social sciences research.
The 2020 distinguished lecturer is Toni Antonucci, Ph.D., Elizabeth M. Douvan Collegiate Professor of Psychology and Program Director and Research Professor in the Life Course Development Program at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. Dr. Antonucci's research has improved our understanding of how social relations and networks impact health across the lifespan and particularly how social relations influence one's ability to manage life's challenges – a particularly timely research area given the pandemic challenges in the context of constrained social relations. Dr. Antonucci has received funding from various NIH Institutes including NIMH and NIA, and is a recipient of the Research Career Development Award.
This year's early stage investigator awardees include:
Presentation: E-cigarette marketing and youth experimentation
Julia Chen-Sankey, Ph.D., M.P.P.
Post-doctoral Fellow,
National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities,
National Institutes of Health
Dr. Chen-Sankey will discuss the importance of investigating e-cigarette marketing exposure and its consequence among tobacco-naïve young people in the U.S.; the associations between e-cigarette marketing exposure and e-cigarette use experimentation; and the public health implications including e-cigarette marketing regulations and counter-marketing interventions aimed at reducing e-cigarette use prevalence among young people in the country.
Presentation: Examining the internalizing pathway to substance use in 10 cultural groups around the world
Andrew Rothenberg, Ph.D.
Research Scientist,
Duke University Center for Child and Family Policy
During this talk, Dr. Rothenberg will discuss his work identifying internalizing and externalizing developmental pathways that emerge in childhood and serve as precursors to illicit substance use; how these pathways vary within and between 10 cultural contexts in 7 nations around the world; how environmental contexts affect these developmental pathways, and describe how these contexts also differ across cultures around the world; and how knowledge about these developmental pathways and environmental contexts can be applied to interventions that prevent substance use in cultures around the world.
Presentation: Skin tone and prenatal care outcomes among African-American women
Jaime C. Slaughter-Acey, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Assistant Professor, Epidemiology and Community Health,
Member, Minnesota Population Center,
Faculty, Center for Leadership Education in Maternal & Child Public Health,
University of Minnesota
Research highlighting and addressing racial health disparities in the U.S. is ample. However, this work often fails to recognize the complexity of racial classification and, thus, its intersection with other aspects of social identity (e.g., gender, skin color, sociopolitical context). Using examples from the literature and her current study, Dr. Slaughter-Acey will discuss how skin tone, as a result of racism and skin tone bias, influences access to prenatal care for Black/African American women.
Presentation: Mind over genome: Learning one's genetic risk for obesity changes physiology independent of actual genetic risk
Bradley P. Turnwald, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow,
Stanford University
Dr. Turnwald's presentation will cover two experiments that test whether merely learning of one's genetic risk for obesity alters one's actual risk by making people more likely to exhibit the expected changes in gene-related physiology, behavior and subjective experience. He found that merely receiving genetic risk information changed individuals' cardiorespiratory physiology, perceived exertion and running endurance during exercise, and changed satiety physiology and perceived fullness after food consumption in a self-fulfilling manner. He will discuss implications of these findings for clinicians, ethicists, and future research on the costs and benefits of communicating personalized genetic risk.
Individuals with disabilities who need reasonable accommodation to participate in this event should contact erica.moore2@nih.gov, 301-594-4392, and/or the Federal Relay (1-800-877-8339).
Please join me in honoring this year's Dr. Matilda White Riley recipients. I'm looking forward to an intellectually stimulating set of presentations and discussion.
View the meeting agenda and register today: https://bit.ly/nihmwr2020.
William T. Riley, Ph.D.
Director, Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research
National Institutes of Health
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