Social Science Space

The 2022 NIH Behavioral and Social Sciences Research Festival will take place on Dec. 8-9, 2022, from 1:00 to 4:30 p.m. EST each day. Held by the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR) and the NIH Behavioral and Social Sciences Research Coordinating Committee (BSSR-CC), the Festival seeks to inform the community about the latest BSSR funded by the NIH and its impact.

The National Institutes of Health has released a Request for Information for feedback to guide the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR) in setting their 2023 – 2028 Strategic Plan priorities and strategic objectives for behavioral and social science research

William T. Riley, the director of the Office of Behavioral and Social Science Research at the National Institutes of Health, announced he would retire at the end of December

Behavioral and social science grant recipients from America’s National Institutes of Health appear to have not published their results within five years at a greater rate than for their non-behavioral peers. An NIH director investigated …

William “Bill” Riley is the director of the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research at the National Institutes of Health. He will participate in a congressional briefing on “Social Science Solutions for Health, Public Safety, Computing, and Other National Priorities” on October 4. Here he explains why he feels public health is best served by good social and behavioral science.

On May 5, Congress finally cleared the fiscal year 2017 spending bill package, which included increases for the National Institutes of Health and flat funding for the National Science Foundation. Weeks later, President Trump unveiled his fiscal year 2018 budget, which includes sweeping cuts to NIH, NSF and federally-funded science research and education.

Our Howard Silver looks over some of the personnel changes and rhetoric coming from the White House to see what lies down the road for U.S. government support of social and behavioral science and data collection.

Ten years ago, the National Institute for Health’s Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR) started an annual event […]

The Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research at the U.S. National institutes of Health has released a new strategic plan to exploit the synergies between behavior and health.

The National Institutes of Health’s Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research, or OBSSR, opened on July 1, 1995, and later this month three days of events will mark that 20^th anniversary at NIH’s Bethesda, Maryland campus

NSF’s SBE Directorate Seeks to Fill Numerous Leadership Posts  The Directorate of Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences of the National […]

The head of the National Institutes of Health’s Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research is leaving that post to […]