7th Matilda White Riley Honors: 2014
Distinguished Lecturer: Samuel Preston, Ph.D.
Professor of Sociology
University of Pennsylvania
Presentation: Smoking, Obesity, and American Longevity
6th Matilda White Riley Honors: 2012
Distinguished Lecturer: Linda J. Waite, Ph.D.
Lucy Flower Professor in Urban Sociology
The University of Chicago
Presentation: Social Connections and Health
5th Matilda White Riley Honors: 2011
Distinguished Lecturer: John T. Cacioppo, Ph.D.
Tiffany and Margaret Blake Distinguished Service Professor
The University of Chicago
Presentation: Social Isolation and Health
4th Matilda White Riley Honors: 2010
Distinguished Lecturer: Laura L. Carstensen, Ph.D.
Fairleigh S. Dickinson Jr. Professor in Public Policy and Professor of Psychology
Stanford University
Presentation: Cultural Characteristics: Longevity, Quality of Life, Social Change, and Social Support
3rd Matilda White Riley Honors: 2008
Distinguished Lecturer: John B. McKinlay, Ph.D.
Vice President and Director
New England Research Institutes, Inc.
Presentation: Looking for Causes in All the Wrong Places: Upstream Social Determinants of Downstream Health Disparities
2nd Matilda White Riley Honors: 2007
Distinguished Lecturers:
Carol D. Ryff, Ph.D.
Hilldale Professor, Department of Psychology
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Inaugural Matilda White Riley Honors: 2006
Distinguished Lecturer: David Mechanic, Ph.D.
René Dubos University Professor, Emeritus
Rutgers Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research
Presentation: Delivery of Health Care Trends
Strategic Plan Videos
Priority One: Improve the Synergy of Basic and Applied Behavioral and Social Sciences Research.
Summer Institute on Randomized Behavioral Clinical Trials
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Summer Institute on Randomized Behavioral Clinical Trials provides an advanced course in planning, designing, and conducting high-impact randomized controlled trials of health-related behavioral interventions. The program emphasizes programmatic research and prepares fellows to lead or collaborate on systematic efforts to develop and improve health-related behavioral interventions and conduct rigorous, high-impact behavioral trials.
Coordination and Collaboration
One of the charges from Congress when the OBSSR was created was “to coordinate research conducted and supported by the agencies of the National Institutes of Health.” The OBSSR coordinates the behavioral and social sciences among the NIH Institutes, Centers, and Offices (ICOs). This coordination prioritizes important research areas or initiatives that affect multiple ICs and would be challenging or inefficient for one or two ICs to address on their own.
