Day 1—Tuesday, December 1, 2020

 
1:00 p.m. – 1:10 p.m. Welcome and Opening Remarks
Francis Collins, M.D., Ph.D., Director, National Institutes of Health (NIH)
 
1:10 p.m. – 1:45 p.m. Emotional Stress, Immunity, and Metabolism: Close Relationships Matter (30 minute presentation, 5 minute Q&A)
Janice Kiecolt-Glaser, Ph.D., Professor, Director of the Institute for Behavioral Medicine Research, The Ohio State University
 
1:45 p.m. – 2:20 p.m. Making Digital Mental Health Work in the Real World (30 minute presentation, 5 minute Q&A)
David Mohr, Ph.D., Professor, Director of the Center for Behavioral Intervention Technologies, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine
 
2:20 p.m. – 2:25 p.m. Break (5 minutes)
 
2:25 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Translating the Neurobiology of Addiction for Novel Treatments of Opioid Use Disorder (30 minute presentation, 5 minute Q&A)
Yasmin Hurd, Ph.D., Ward-Coleman Chair of Translational Neuroscience and the Director of the Addiction Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
 
3:00 p.m. – 3:35 p.m. The Stage Model as a Unifying Framework for Treatment Development in Substance Use Disorder (30 minute presentation, 5 minute Q&A)
Kathleen Carroll, Ph.D., Albert E. Kent Professor of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine
 
3:35 p.m. Adjournment
 

Day 2—Wednesday, December 2, 2020

 
1:00 p.m. – 1:05 p.m. Welcome and Opening Remarks
 
1:05 p.m. – 1:40 p.m. Race, Health, and the Politics of Skin Color (30 minute presentation, 5 minute Q&A)
Rick Antonius Kittles, Ph.D., Professor, Associate Director of Health Equities in the Comprehensive Cancer Center, Director of the Division of Health Equities, City of Hope
 
1:40 p.m. – 2:15 p.m. “Poking and Prying with a Purpose” *: Community-engaged Research to Achieve Health Equity
*quote from Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks on a Road, 1942.
(30 minute presentation, 5 minute Q&A)

Nancy Schoenberg, Ph.D., Marion Pearsall Professor of Behavioral Science, Associate Vice President for Research on Health Disparities, and Director of Center for Health Equity Transformation, University of Kentucky College of Medicine
 
2:15 p.m. – 2:20 p.m. Break (5 minutes)
 
2:20 p.m. – 2:55 p.m. From Research to Policy, in Normal and Troubled Times: Evidence from Preventive Health Behavior (30 minute presentation, 5 minute Q&A)
Esther Duflo, Ph.D., Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics, Massachusetts Institute for Technology
 
2:55 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. State of Behavioral and Social Sciences at the NIH
William Riley, Ph.D., Associate Director for Behavioral and Social Sciences Research and Director, Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research, Division of Program Coordination, Planning, and Strategic Initiatives, Office of the Director, NIH
 
3:15 p.m. Adjournment