The 2016 Annual Meeting Program will feature the theme, “Behavioral Medicine at a Crossroads: 21st Century Challenges and Solutions.” The meeting will focus on the following cross-cutting subthemes:
- Innovative behavioral interventions that prevent disease and alter its natural progression.
- Translation of behavioral medicine research into practice.
- New ideas for funding health improvement research and evidence-based interventions.
- Expanding behavioral medicine’s reach.
Systems for Action Presentation Information
Thursday, March 31, 2016
7:15 a.m. – 8 a.m.
Breakfast Roundtable: Introducing the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Culture of Health Missionand Research Funding Programs
International Ballroom West
Moderator: Tracy Orleans, PhD, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Princeton, NJ
This two-part roundtable will introduce: (1) RWJF’s new mission to build a Culture of Health in America, in which everyone has the opportunity
to live their healthiest life possible; and (2) three new national research programs which together will award $25M over the next three years for
innovative research on policies, laws, system interventions, and community dynamics that improve health and well-being, with emphasis on
sectors not typically associated with health, such as transportation and housing.
Representatives from RWJF (Tracy Orleans) and its RAND Corporation partners (Anita Chanda and Vivian Towe) will join national research program
leaders to describe the following new research funding programs:
- Evidence for Action, led by Nancy Adler and David Vlahov at UCSF, and Claire Gibbons and Tracy Costigan at RWJF, will support a new program of investigator-initiated research that spans the full range of topics and methodologies needed to build an evidence base for a Culture of Health.
- Policies for Action, led by Scott Burris at Temple University and Kerry Anne McGeary and Mona Shah at RWJF, will explore how policies, laws and regulations in both the public and private sectors can support a Culture of Health. This new program will build on the work of RWJF’s Public Health Law Research Program.
- Systems for Action, led by Glen Mays and Anna Hoover at the University of Kentucky, and Carolyn Miller and Oktawia Wojcik at RWJF, will identify and explore system innovations and interactions to align the delivery and financing systems that support a Culture of Health including medical care, public health and prevention, and social and community services. It will build on the work of RWJF’s National Coordinating Center for Public Health Services and Systems Research.
Event Details
Website: Society of Behavioral Medicine