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face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> Behavioral and
Social Sciences Interest Group [mailto:BSSRIG-L@LIST.NIH.GOV] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Ronald Abeles<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, October 23, 2007
9:41 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> BSSRIG-L@LIST.NIH.GOV<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> NIH is soliciting ideas
on Priorities in Basic Behavioral and Social Sciences Research<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Importance:</span></b> High</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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Request for Information (RFI): <br>
To Solicit Input and Ideas on Priorities in Basic Behavioral and Social
Sciences Research </span></font></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p align=center style='text-align:center'><font size=1 face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>Notice Number: NOT-OD-08-008<br>
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Key Dates<br>
Release Date: October 22, 2007<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Response Date: November 26, 2007 </span></b></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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Issued by<br>
National Institutes of Health, Office of the Director, Office of Portfolio
Analysis and Strategic Initiatives (OPASI), <a href="http://opasi.nih.gov;";>http://opasi.nih.gov;</a>
and the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR), <a
href="http://obssr.od.nih.gov/";>http://obssr.od.nih.gov/.</a><br>
<br>
The NIH is seeking input from the scientific community, health professionals,
patient advocates, and the general public about current and emerging priorities
in basic Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (bBSSR) that may offer
potential for improving and accelerating health research and its impact on the
health of the Nation. This information will aid OPASI, working with OBSSR
expertise, in developing a congressionally-requested strategic plan for bBSSR
at the NIH. Relevant text from the House Appropriations Committee request is
available at <a href="http://www.bBSSRresponse.com/";>http://www.bBSSRresponse.com/</a><br>
<br>
Background<br>
<br>
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is the world leader in funding
biomedical and behavioral research to improve health. It consists of 27
Institutes and Centers (ICs) and the Office of the Director, which includes
several programmatic Offices, each of which coordinates NIH activities in
cross-cutting areas that are important to the missions of all the ICs.<br>
The Office of Portfolio Analysis and Strategic Initiatives (OPASI) provides NIH
and its ICs with the methods and information necessary to manage their large
and complex scientific portfolios, identifies – in concert with multiple other
inputs – important areas of emerging scientific opportunities or rising public
health challenges, and assists in the acceleration of investments in these
areas, focusing on those involving multiple ICs. The Office currently has three
divisions tasked with coordination, resource development, and evaluation.<br>
<br>
The Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR) serves as the NIH
focal point for research on behavioral, social, and lifestyle factors in the
causation, treatment, and prevention of diseases. As such, the Office advises
and consults on these topics with NIH scientists and others within and outside
the federal government, and plays a key role in promoting and enhancing basic
and applied behavioral and social sciences research across all of NIH.<br>
<br>
Basic research in the behavioral and social sciences is designed to further our
understanding of fundamental mechanisms and patterns of behavioral and social
functioning relevant to the Nationšs health and well-being, and as they interact
with each other, with biology and the environment. As is the case with
basic biomedical research, basic behavioral and social sciences research is
designed to elucidate knowledge about underlying mechanisms and processes,
knowledge that is fundamental to improving the understanding, explanation,
observation, prediction, prevention, and management of illnesses, as well as
the promotion of optimal health and well being. The range of focus includes
different “granularity” or levels of complexity. Basic behavioral and social
sciences research involves both human and animal studies and spans the full
range of scientific inquiry, from processes within the intra-individual level
(“under the skin”), to mechanisms “outside the skin” that explain inter-individual,
group, organizational, community, population, macroeconomic and other systems
level patterns of collective behavior. While the primary focus of basic BSSR
must ultimately be directly relevant to behavioral and social factors, the
domains and units of analysis can include intra-organismic as well as
inter-organismic factors (“cells to society”), over varying units of time from
nanoseconds to centuries, and including lifespan developmental phases and
phenomena that may occur within and across generations. An expanded definition
of bBSSR can be found here: <a href="http://www.bBSSRresponse.com/";>http://www.bBSSRresponse.com/.</a>
<br>
<br>
The current request for information supplements previous efforts to identify
bBSSR priorities, including reports from the Institute of Medicine and National
Research Council of the National Academies of Sciences, and most notably, a
report from the Working Group of the NIH Advisory Committee to the Director on
Research Opportunities in the Basic Behavioral and Social Sciences (2004),
which includes descriptions of ICs’ portfolios in bBSSR and identifies future
bBSSR opportunities for NIH. These sources and a summary of the Working Group’s
identified priorities can be viewed at <a href="http://www.bBSSRresponse.com/";>http://www.bBSSRresponse.com/.</a><br>
<br>
Information Requested<br>
<br>
This RFI invites the scientific community, health professionals, patient
advocates, and the general public to respond to the following questions:<br>
<br>
1) What are the existing essential/foundational research topics already
being supported and in need of continued support or further development (i.e.
core areas of bBSSR)? What existing areas need to be phased out or dropped?<br>
<br>
2) What exciting new emergent areas of bBSSR are likely to significantly
advance the NIH mission and address pressing biomedical and public health
needs? What areas are not being addressed that ought to be addressed because
they will likely lead to important or perhaps even breakthrough insights that
will ultimately improve the Nations health and well-being?<br>
<br>
We welcome identification of priority areas that cut across the missions of
multiple NIH Institutes and Centers (e.g. understanding fundamental mechanisms
in human motivation and goal directed behaviors), as well as specific examples of
basic research that fit the mission of a particular IC.<br>
<br>
Responses<br>
<br>
Responses will be accepted through November 26, 2007 and can be entered at the
following web site:<br>
<a href="http://www.bBSSRresponse.com/";>http://www.bBSSRresponse.com/.</a>
Formal acknowledgement of receipt of responses will not be made beyond that
provided by the survey utility.<br>
This RFI shall not be construed as a solicitation for applications or as an
obligation on the part of the government. The government will not pay for the
preparation of any information submitted. Responders should be aware that the
information provided will be analyzed and may appear in various reports.
Additionally, the government cannot guarantee the confidentiality of the
information provided.<br>
<br>
Inquiries<br>
<br>
Questions about this request for information may be directed to:<br>
<br>
Deborah H. Olster, Ph.D.<br>
Deputy Director<br>
Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research<br>
National Institutes of Health<br>
Building 31, Room B1C19<br>
<st1:Street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">31 Center Drive</st1:address></st1:Street><br>
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Bethesda</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">MD</st1:State>
<st1:PostalCode w:st="on">20892-2027</st1:PostalCode></st1:place><br>
Tel: 301-402-1147<br>
FAX: 301-402-1150<br>
E-mail: OlsterD@od.nih.gov<br>
<br>
James P. Stansbury, Ph.D., M.P.H.<br>
AAAS Fellow<br>
Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research<br>
National Institutes of Health<br>
Building 31, Room B1C19<br>
<st1:Street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">31 Center Drive</st1:address></st1:Street><br>
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Bethesda</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">MD</st1:State>
<st1:PostalCode w:st="on">20892-2027</st1:PostalCode></st1:place><br>
Tel: 301-402-3930<br>
FAX: 301-402-1150<br>
E-mail: stansburyj@od.nih.gov </span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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