Social and Behavioural Research finally gets a portion of the high-level attention it has sought for years to the National Institutes of Health. Yesterday the NIH Director Francis Collins announced that $ 10 million in recovery money will go to support the launch of the Behavioral and Social Science Opportunity Network base -. They call it OppNet, an initiative to support and coordinate behavioral research base through the NIH
The American Psychological Society Association for Psychological Science (APS), which works with the Congress for about a decade for most behavioral science at NIH, is ecstatic about OppNet. Executive Director APS Alan Kraut says NIH Office of behavioral and social science research, which is a funding agency, "has impacted less and less over time." OppNet, to be led by Jeremy Berg, director of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, and the National Institute on Aging director Richard Hodes, "is a much higher visibility." He will receive all the directors of the institutes together on a regular basis to discuss behavioral research needs. Although the basic behavioral research already gets about $ 1 billion a year from the NIH, Kraut said OppNet will channel money in interdisciplinary areas that have so far been ignored. NIH institutes and centers have committed to another $ 110 million in the initiative over the next five years.
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