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Through the Kaleidoscope Viewing the Contributions of the Behavioral and Social Sciences to Health -- The Barbara and Jerome Grossman Symposium (2002) / Chapter Skim
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Reactor Panel for Research Funders
Pages 46-52

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From page 46...
... "Like this symposium," she saicl, "the BSSWG facilitates communication, collaboration, ancl partnerships among CDC's social ancl behavioral scientists." Such agencies "tencl to be organized around diseases rather than behavioral issues," she notecl, but "since I joined CDC 10 years ago, I have observed a substantial increase in its Emore broadly based behavioral ancl social research." BSSWG's membership has grown to more than 200, Dr. Anderson observecl, but it's clear, "as indicated by several of Ithis symposium's!
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From page 47...
... It "is designed to connect science and public health practice and to improve health promotion and disease prevention efforts" in four ways by: · focusing on high-priority public health issues; · conducting rigorous, community-based prevention research with outcomes applicable to public health programs and policies; · enhancing community partnerships; and · bridging gaps between scientific knowledge and public health pracThe PRC Program, Dr. Anderson noted, has grown since 1986, and presently supports 24*
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From page 48...
... McGinnis said, "is that its aggregate implications may be profound for the way we develop our strategies for improving health." There is clearly the need for a "paradigm shift" in our understanding of the determinants of health and in the ways we act on them. He then discussed four issues in particular that he thought were raised by the symposium's discussions: a new vocabulary, the challenges it implies for the research endeavor, the challenges in the conduct of research, and the relevant charges to philanthropy in general and to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in particular.
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From page 49...
... Similarly, he notecl, we must avoid "the limited perspective of myopic lenses," instead adopting time horizons that "extencl as far into the future as we can responsibly, reliably, ancl validly structure." Methodologies. We need new analytic models to incorporate the multidisciplinary perspectives of researchers.
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From page 50...
... established clinical scholars program. · "Taking a cue from our colleagues at the MacArthur Foundation, and hoping to partner with those colleagues, we will be forming a research network around the issues of social isolation and social connectedness" to focus on the basic mechanisms involved and on the translation of research .
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From page 51...
... The Division of Clinical Research is the primary source for behavioral studies and accounts for about two-thirds of NCRR's support in this area: in FY 2001, the division provided approximately $58 million to host behavioral research and that level is estimated to grow to $66 million for the next fiscal year, she said. The major programs through which NCRR supports behavioral research are the general clinical research centers, approximately 65 biomedical research technology centers, regional primate research centers, and a program for shared instrumentation.
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From page 52...
... A consensus derived from the six NRC and IOM reports "would be very helpful to us in moving forward with those bioinformatics resources and being responsive to your needs as well." Also with respect to imaging research, NCRR is in the process of building a pilot test bed, known as the Biomedical Informatics Network (BIRN) , she said, in collaboration with the National Science Foundation, the San Diego Supercomputer Center, and several universities.
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