National Institutes Of Health Official To Speak Feb. 5

1-24-97

University Park, Pa. -- Norman B. Anderson, associate director of the National Institutes of Health, will deliver the 1997 Sol Kramer Lecture of the College of Health and Human Development at 3 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 5, in 101 Kern Building on the University Park Campus.

Anderson, who also serves as director of the NIH Office of Behavioral and Social Science Research, will speak on "Bridging the Chasm Between Social, Behavioral and Biomedical Research: An Integrated Multi-Level Approach to Health Science." The event is open to the public.

The Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research is charged with facilitating a growth in behavioral and social research across all of the 24 institutes and centers of the NIH. Since joining OBSSR, Anderson has initiated a number of activities aimed at removing the artificial separation between biomedical research and behavioral and social science research.

In addition to his work at NIH, Anderson is associate professor in psychiatry and psychology at Duke University and founder and director of the university's program on health, behavior and aging in black Americans, and director of Duke's Exploratory Center for Research on Health Promotions in Older Minorities. He is also a senior fellow at Duke's Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development.

He earned his doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He then completed a clinical psychology internship at Brown University School of Medicine and two postdoctoral fellowships at Duke. His research has been funded by three different institutes of NIH.

****

Contact: Christy Rambeau (814) 865-7517 (office) cmr7@psu.edu