What's New 2000



Congress Creates New NIH Center on Health Disparities; Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research's Health Disparities Plan on the Web (More)

CONGRESS HONORS DR. HOWARD SILVER FOR HIS SERVICE AS CHAIR OF THE COALITION FOR NATIONAL SCIENCE FUNDING-- HON. KEN BENTSEN (Extension of Remarks - November 01, 2000)

 COSSA Sponsors Congressional Briefing on "How Neighborhoods Matter:  The Value of Investing at the Local Level"  Executive Summary

NIH Conference Highlights Importance of Social and Behavioral Influences on Health

COSSA Sponsors Congressional Briefing on Health Disparities

NIH Report to the United States Senate on Social and Behavioral  Sciences Research

OBSSR:  Linking Minority Students with Social and Behavioral Sciences Mentors  The OBSSR has developed a web page that will link underrepresented minority students with potential research mentors.  Through its Research Supplements for Underrepresented Minorities Program, investigators with NIH grants may receive research support for underrepresented minorities on their grants.  The OBSSR website is designed to facilitate the use of this program among social and behavioral scientists.

COSSA's 2000 Congressional Seminars

Testimony of Alfred Blumstein, Ph.D., University Professor and J. Erik Jonsson Professor of Urban Systems and Operations Research at Carnegie Mellon University and the Director of the National Consortium on Violence Research for the National Science Foundation before the VA, HUD, Independent Agencies Subcommittee Committee on Appropriations, U.S. House of Representatives, Honorable James T. Walsh, Chairman, April 12, 2000

Statement of the Coalition for the Advancement of Health Through Behavioral and Social Science Research (CAHT-BSSR) on behalf of the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention prepared for the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies -- April 11, 2000

Data Needs In the Social Sciences, Howard J. Silver, Ph.D., Executive Director of COSSA.  Prepared for the conference on Information and Democratic Society:  Representing and Conveying Quantitative Data, Columbia University, March 31, 2000

Statement of the Consortium of Social Science Associations submitted for the record on the Fiscal Year 2001 Appropriations for the National Institute of Justice and the Bureau of Justice Statistics prepared for the Subcommittee on the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies, Committee on Appropriations, U.S. House of Representatives, The Honorable Harold Rogers, Chairman — March 31, 2000

Testimony on behalf of the Federation of Behavioral, Psychological, and Cognitive Sciences; Consortium of Social Science Associations; and the American Psychological Association regarding the Fiscal Year 2001 Appropriations for research programs at the Department of Education and the National Institutes of Health by Patrice O'Toole, Assistant Director, Federation of Behavioral, Psychological, and Cognitive Sciences, before the House Appropriations Committee Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies, The Honorable John E. Porter, Chair -- March 7, 2000

COSSA's Open Letter to Members of Congress Regarding the Mission of the National Institute of Mental Health

 National Institutes Peer Review Reorganization

COSSA's Comments to the Center for Scientific Review Panel on Scientific Boundaries Report, October 15, 1999

Center for Scientific Review Panel on Scientific Boundaries for Review

Panel on Scientific Boundaries for Review, Update, January 10, 2000

Opportunities for Funding in Social and Behavioral Science Research


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