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NIH
OFFICIAL TO SPEAK AT OHIO UNIVERSITY
ATHENS,
Ohio -- Norman Anderson, an official with the National
Institutes of Health, will discuss "Bridging the Chasm
Between Sociobehavioral and Biomedical Research: An
Interdisciplinary, Multi-level Approach to Health Science"
from 3:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 20 in Baker
Center's 1804 Lounge at Ohio University.
Anderson
is associate director of the NIH's Office of Behavioral and
Social Sciences Research, which was created to stimulate
behavioral and social sciences research throughout the
institutes and to integrate this research into other areas
of NIH health research.
The NIH,
one of the world's leading biomedical research centers,
spends about 80 percent of its $15.6 billion budget on
grants and contracts supporting research and training in
more than 2,000 research institutions throughout the United
States and abroad. Last year, the NIH awarded $1.4 million
to Ohio University.
Anderson
is the first director of this office, which opened in 1995.
He is an associate professor in the department of psychiatry
and behavioral sciences at Duke University and the director
of Duke's program on health, behavior and aging in black
Americans. He has served as the director of the Exploratory
Center for Research on Health Promotion in Older
Minorities.
Anderson
has received several awards for his research on high blood
pressure in African Americans, including the 1986 New
Investigator Award from the Society of Behavioral Medicine,
the 1991 Award for Outstanding Contribution to Health
Psychology from the American Psychological Association and a
Research Scientist Development Award from the National
Institute of Mental Health.
Anderson's
visit is sponsored by the Office of the Vice
President for Research
and the Office of the Provost.
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