Presenters:
Talea Cornelius, Ph.D., M.S.W., M.S.
Date: November 1, 2022, from 9:30 to 11:00 AM EST
Register here
Dr. Talea Cornelius, Ph.D. MSW, MS, and Dr. Jeffrey Birk, Ph.D. MS at the Research and Coordination Center of SOBC gives a virtual seminar on the SOBC experimental method for behavioral science, providing tools to foster behavioral science and a master class on designing an SOBC method study.
The Science of Behavior Change: A Mechanism-Focused Approach to Behavior Change Research
Presenter: Talea Cornelius, Ph.D., M.S.W., M.S.
Assistant Professor of Medical Sciences (in
Medicine), Columbia University
Date: October 4, 2022 at 9:30 to 11:00 AM EST
The UCL Centre for Behaviour Change would be delighted to see you at the 8th annual conference, hosted online from the 7th-9th November 2022, with the theme Behaviour Change for Health and Sustainability.
Keynote speakers include: Elena Altieri, Dr Kim Lavoie, and Dr Felix Naughton.
You can register here: https://abbey.eventsair.com/cbc2022/cbc2022reg/Site/Register
Early bird rates will end on 30th September 2022!
For further information on the conference please visit https://www.ucl.ac.uk/behaviour-change/cbc-conference-2022-behaviour-change-health-and-sustainability
IBTN will be hosting a hybrid conference from May 19 to 21 in Montreal, Canada. During this conference, SOBC Co-Investigator, Dr. Talea Cornelius will be a Plenary Speaker to discuss How do we Measure Mechanisms of Behavior Change?
Registration is now open for virtual and in-person tickets:
More information on Dr. Cornelius:
Speaker: Sean D. Young, Ph.D., M.S.
Executive Director, University of California Institute for Prediction Technology
Associate Professor, Departments of Emergency Medicine and Informatics, University of California, Irvine
Date: November 2, 2021 – 1:00 p.m. ET to 2:00 p.m. ET
Location: Virtual; NIH videocast >
Description: Social technologies and their associated data are increasingly being used as tools in public health research and practice. Examples include social media, mobile apps, internet searches, and wearable sensors. More than half the world (4.5 billion people) uses social media sites to create, share, and discuss content—often in the form of personal thoughts, behaviors, and clinical diagnoses. Dr. Young will discuss how social technologies and data (e.g., artificial intelligence and data science modeling) are being used to impact public health and how researchers and health departments/agencies might apply them in public health surveillance/intervention efforts. He will also present his team’s research on how these tools can be employed to predict and change health behaviors, and on implementation-related issues such as policy and ethical questions. The studies to be discussed involve populations affected by HIV, mental health and substance use disorders, car crashes, or COVID-19.
This meeting will be held online via zoom October 8th-11th, and you will be invited to participate through zoom Q&A sessions. You will receive the zoom link in the week before the conference. Registration is $50 for students, and there is a sliding scale for general admission from $100 – $400. Like many events, this meeting had to be rescheduled several times due to the pandemic, and has become very expensive to host with financial losses. If you can afford one of the higher rates, ABMR greatly appreciates your support of their non-profit academic society!
On October 7th at 11am, Dr. Guillaume Chevance will give a Grand Rounds presentation on: Thinking Health-related Behaviors in a Climate Change Context.
Human activities have changed the biosphere so profoundly over the past two centuries that human induced climate change is now posing serious health-related treats to the current and future generations. Rapid actions from all scientific fields are needed to contribute to both the mitigation and adaption to climate change. This presentation will discuss the bi-directional associations between climate change effects (i.e., rising average temperatures, natural disasters, air pollution, rising sea level) and health-related behaviors, as well as a set of key actions/propositions for the behavioral medicine community.
To register, click here.
The Science of Behavior Change (SOBC) seeks to improve the understanding of underlying mechanisms of human behavior change by promoting research on the initiation, personalization, and maintenance of behavior change. SOBC aims to bring together basic and applied scientists across health-related behaviors, such as diet, exercise, and medication adherence, in order to develop more effective behavioral interventions. SOBC research is funded by the SOBC Common Fund Program in the Office of Strategic Coordination, Office of the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Common Fund programs resonate with the missions of multiple Institutes, Centers, and Offices at the NIH. Its programs are intended to be transformative, cross-cutting, and unique. NIH staff from more than 15 Institutes, Centers, and Offices are involved in SOBC research and several of them are active members of the SOBC Research Network as Program Officials and Project Scientists associated with Network projects.
Visit and subscribe to the SOBC YouTube Channel here to access all recent presentation recordings.
Co-hosted with Columbia Roybal Center for Fearless Behavior Change on June 1st at 3pm EST, Dr. Jeff Huffman will present on Developing and testing positive psychology-based interventions to promote physical activity.
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Dr. Jeff Huffman is a Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and the Director of the Cardiac Psychiatry Research Program. His work has focused on developing scalable clinical interventions to improve mental health and health behaviors in people with heart disease and related medical conditions. This includes developing a positive psychology-based intervention program to promote physical activity among patients with recent acute cardiac events and those with more chronic conditions. His work has led to more than 180 peer-reviewed publications, and he has received funding from multiple NIH institutes, the American Heart Association, the American Diabetes Association, and the Templeton Foundation.
