CHIP Lecture Series, Fall 2015
“Funding for Behavioral and Social Research: Finding New Partners and Opportunities”
Melissa Riddle, PhD, National Institutes of Health
12:30 - 1:30pm
Co-Sponsors:
UConn Center for Public Health and Health Policy
UConn College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
UConn Department of Communication
UConn Department of Human Development and Family Studies
UConn Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine and the Center for the Promotion of Health in the New England Workplace
UConn Marketing Department, UConn School of Business
UConn Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity
UConn School of Business
UConn School of Medicine, UConn Health
UConn School of Pharmacy
UConn School of Social Work
Location
Video Conference Room 204, 2nd floor
J. Ray Ryan Building, 2006 Hillside Road
University of Connecticut, Storrs Campus
For directions and maps, see http://www.chip.uconn.edu/about/directions-to-chip/.
Accessibility: elevator available in building lobby on ground floor.
Web Stream
You can view this talk streamed live during the lecture – or archived after the lecture – here.
About the Speaker
Melissa Riddle earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1991. During her time as a UCLA Bruin, Melissa learned behavioral approaches for treating autism, for conducting in-home family therapy, and for data management for community-based studies on HIV risk. Melissa earned a doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of Arizona in 1998. Her doctoral research combined family therapy and health psychology, asking questions related to how patients and their families cope with chronic or serious illness. In 1998, Melissa started a 2 ½ year postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania. During this fellowship, her research and clinical care focused on the psychosocial impact of genetic testing for breast and ovarian cancer for women and their families. In 2001, Melissa joined the National Institute on Drug Abuse at the National Institutes of Health, overseeing a grants program on behavioral treatments for drug addiction and HIV risk behavior. She joined the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research in 2007, as chief of a new branch on behavioral and social sciences research. Melissa is active in trans-NIH initiatives too, working with NIH colleagues and partners in the extramural community on projects central to behavior change research. Among these are the Advanced Training Institute for Health Behavior Theory, which sponsors summer workshops for early-career investigators; and the NIH Common Fund Science of Behavior Change initiative, which supports research to identify the causal mechanisms of behavior change.
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