The Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR) at the National Institutes of Health is celebrating its ten-year anniversary on June 21-22, 2006 with a power-packed event on the NIH campus. The event will include a Town Meeting at which the new draft Strategic Plan will be presented and discussed.
OBSSR is asking for comments through June 30, 2006. The draft plan is called "The Contributions of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research to Improving the Health of the Nation: A Prospectus for the Future." You can access the draft prospectus and share your comments via the OBSSR website: http://www.conceptsystems.com/OBSSR/ Please share your comments with APA as well so they can inform APA's response to OBSSR. Send a note to Pat Kobor of the Science Policy Office (pkobor@apa.org) by Wednesday, June 28, 2006.
Patricia Clem Kobor Senior Science Policy Analyst American Psychological Association (202) 336-5933 (202) 336-6063-f pkobor@apa.org http://www.apa.org/ppo
----------------------------------------------------------------- Neil Charness, President Division 20 of American Psychological Association (Adult Development and Aging)
Psychology Department E-mail:charness@psy.fsu.edu Copeland Street Phone (offices):850-644-6686; 850-644-8571 Florida State University Fax: 850-644-7739 Tallahassee, FL. 32306-1270 WWW: http://www.psy.fsu.edu/~charness/
