News and Announcements
April 2025 Census Project Update
Appropriations Update Nearly 60 local, state and national organizations and companies joined a Census Project letter to Congressional appropriations leaders on April 3, 2025 "to support robust funding for the U.S. Census Bureau, specifically $2 billion as recommended...
National Institute on Aging’s Behavioral and Social Research (BSR) Newsletter
Research Spotlight: University of Southern California U.S. Cost of Dementia Project The United States Cost of Dementia Project provides comprehensive, national, annual estimates of the total cost of dementia and builds the capacity of researchers and policymakers to...
March 2025 Census Project Update
Appropriations Update As reported in a recent Census Project blog, on March 13, by a vote of 54-46, the U.S. Senate passed H.R. 1968, the Full-Year Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2025. This continuing resolution (CR) funds all federal agencies,...
Early Relational Health: A Foundation for Healthy Development Across the Lifespan
Director’s Spotlight: When asked to recall our earliest memories, many of us are not able to pinpoint exactly when or where they occurred. However, we can often remember who was there. Go ahead and try it—what is one of the earliest moments you can recall?...
NICHDevelopments
News NICHD publishes new strategic plan on research goals and strategies for advancing human health NICHD’s new five-year strategic plan reflects new opportunities for scientific discovery, such as advances in computational biology, artificial intelligence, advanced...
News from CNSTAT: March 2025
CNSTAT has been committed to nonpartisan, evidence-based approaches to providing advice to the statistical community, the federal government, and the nation since our inception in 1972. As always, our publications and other resources are available to all for free on...
Celebrating 30 Years of OBSSR
This year marks the 30th anniversary of the official opening of OBSSR at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 1995. The office was created by Congress in 1993 to identify, coordinate, and advance behavioral and social sciences research (BSSR) across NIH. The...
OBSSR Now Accepting Applications: Short Courses on Innovative Methodologies and Approaches in the Behavioral and Social Sciences
OBSSR, in collaboration with other NIH institutes, centers, and offices, is seeking applications to support the development of short courses focused on cutting-edge methodologies and analytics in behavioral and social sciences research (BSSR). This request for...
National Institute on Aging’s Behavioral and Social Research (BSR) Newsletter
Call for Applications from NIH Centers and Networks The Gateway Exposome Coordinating Center (GECC) is seeking pilot projects that advance research on the various environmental exposures over the life course — known as the “exposome” — that affect Alzheimer’s Disease...
February 2025 Census Project Update
Appropriations Update FY 2025 Washington, D.C. has been focused on budget resolutions and the reconciliation process, but the federal government, including the U.S. Census Bureau, remains funded (at the Fiscal Year 2024 levels) through March 14, 2025, when the current...