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Susan McHale, Director

Discover how the OVPR Institutes drive innovation by supporting interdisciplinary collaboration, translating discoveries into measurable outcomes for human behavior, health, and development. Learn about SSRI's mission to address critical human and social challenges, adaptation to change, and resilience. Explore the role of social and behavioral sciences in understanding human behavior and effecting change in society. Find out how SSRI supports scholars, provides funding for research teams, and advances groundbreaking initiatives in health, social disparities, and behavior change.

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Susan McHale, Director

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  1. Susan McHale, Director

  2. What is the job of the OVPR Institutes? Engines of innovation through promoting excellence in interdisciplinary team science, from basic discovery to fielding and testing evidence-based solutions to human, social and technical problems.

  3. SSRI’s Mission • To promote interdisciplinary collaborations that address critical human and social problems and translate scientific discoveries to effect measurable outcomes for human behavior, health, and development. • Fundamental to the social and behavioral sciences is understanding the role of human behavior in adapting to change, in resilience in the face of challenge, and in effecting change in the human condition. Definition of social and behavioral science (OBSSR, ND): The term social includes sociocultural, socioeconomic, and socio-demographic status, the multiple levels of the social context (from small groups to complex cultural systems and societal institutions), and bio-social interactions. The term, behavior encompasses overt actions, underlying psychological processes, including cognition, emotion, personality, motivation, and decision-making, and bio-behavioral interactions.

  4. The Social and Behavioral Sciences at Penn State NSFTotalS&EResearchExpenditureRankingsforFY2014(ReleasedNovember2015) TopTwentyOverallbyNSFFieldsandSubfields

  5. What do the OVPR Institutes do? Develop and support interdisciplinary communities of scholars-- including through building and maintaining shared facilities and services, consultation, seed grant funding, seminars and workshops, and co-funding faculty.

  6. SSRI ORG Chart

  7. SSRI Pilot Funding Level 2 $20,000 Level 1 Level 2 Funding (up to $20,000) is designed to assist PSU interdisciplinary faculty teams to advance their research by securing external funding such as by conducting pilot data collection and analysis. $5,000 Level 1 Funding (up to $5,000) is designed to assist PSU faculty to form interdisciplinary teams aimed at developing novel research questions.

  8. SSRI Level 1 Seed Funding Progression 2014-2015 For every dollar invested in Level 1 seed grants, $15.45 in indirect costs was returned in externally funded projects.

  9. SSRI Level 2 Seed Funding Progression 2014-2015 • For every dollar invested in Level 2 seed grants, $6.57 in indirect costs was returned in externally funded projects.

  10. SSRI Co-funded Faculty (2002-2015) $50K 23 Average SSRI start up contribution Average of 23 co-funded faculty members per year; focus has been on children, youth and family topics (N = 301 faculty years) 23 2/3 $50K 2/3 >$500K Annual average external funding Two thirds hired as assistant professors $40.3K >$500K $4.4M $40.3K $4.4M Average “lifetime” external funding Average SSRI annual salary contribution

  11. What’s Next? • SSRI 2015-2020 Strategic Aims

  12. SSRI 2015-2020 Strategic Aims Smart and Connected Health The Human System Data  Knowledge Impact Social Disparities • Innovative Methods • Dissemination and Implementation Science

  13. SSRI 2015-2020 Strategic Aims Discovery of causes and consequences and development of policies and programs for remediating widening gaps in health, education, and access to resources -- toward sustainability of a growing, changing, and diverse population in a global society Social Disparities

  14. SSRI 2015-2020 Strategic Aims • “Population Research Institute” NIH 2P2CHD041025 (funded since 1992) • Jennifer Van Hook, Professor of Sociology and Demography, PI • Focus on: Population health • Immigration and immigrant assimilation • Communities, neighborhoods and spatial processes • Social change and changing families • Causes of crime Social Disparities

  15. SSRI 2015-2020 Strategic Aims “Science Learning Difficulties: Patterns and Predictions in a Nationally Representative Cohort,” Institute of Education Sciences, R324A150126, Paul Morgan, Associate Professor of Education and Demography, PI Aim: Identify factors that account for racial/ethnic differences in children’s science achievement. Social Disparities

  16. SSRI 2015-2020 Strategic Aims Novel methodologies (electronic devices, social media, human-technology hybrids), big data analytics, and other innovations for enhancing health and health behavior and optimizing health care and health care delivery toward a sustainable health system Smart and Connected Health

  17. SSRI 2015-2020 Strategic Aims Everyday stress response targets in the science of behavior change, NIH UH2-AG052167, D. Almeida, Professor of HDFS & J. Smyth, Professor of BBH and Medicine and SSRI Associate Director, MPI Aims: Identify stress responses that drive health behaviors (exercise, sleep) and develop individualized interventions for just in time delivery Smart and Connected Health

  18. SSRI 2015-2020 Strategic Aims How environments and experiences get under the skin to affect stress and immune functions, social, cognitive, and affective neural processes, and gene-related mechanisms in human health and development—and the ways in which these bio-psycho-social processes both shape and are shaped by human behavior The Human System

  19. SSRI 2015-2020 Strategic Aims 2015 PSU Conference on Child Maltreatment How do early life stress and trauma become biologically embedded to impact later health? How can effects of early adversity on the developing human system be interrupted, intervened upon and reversed? The Human System

  20. SSRI 2015-2020 Strategic Aims “Daily Stress, Coping and Premature Cognitive Aging in Child Abuse Victims at Midlife,” NIH R01AG04879, J. Noll, Professor of HDFS and Director, Network on Child Protection and Well-Being, PI. Aims: Assess cognitive capacities (memory, attention) in women who were sexually abused as children and identify health behavior targets (coping behaviors, exercise) that stem or reverse early cognitive decline. The Human System

  21. SSRI 2015-2020 Strategic Aims “Effects of cigarette availability on neural and subjective sensitivity to rewards,” NIH R01DA041438, Stephen Wilson, Associate Professor of Psychology, PI Aim: Assess reward sensitivity as a function of cigarette availability in the lab (using f-MRI) and in daily life (with mobile devices) to understand why smokers show muted response to non-drug rewards The Human System

  22. SSRI 2015-2020 Strategic Aims • Data Knowledge • Novel approaches to research design; data collection, privacy and security; and modeling and analysis to illuminate the complexities of human behavior, health and development Innovative Methods

  23. SSRI 2015-2020 Strategic Aims Population–Infrastructure Nexus: A Heterogeneous Flow–based Approach for Responding to Disruptions in Interdependent Infrastructure Systems, NSF1541136, Guangqing Chi, Associate Professor of Rural Sociology and Demography, Director, SSRI/PRI Computational and Spatial Analysis Core Aims: Optimize population/infrastructure responses to disaster Design training modules for efficient and resilient communities Innovative Methods

  24. SSRI 2015-2020 Strategic Aims Center for Complex Data to Knowledge in Drug Abuse and HIV Behavioral Science, NIH P50DA039838, Linda Collins, Professor of HDFS and Statistics and Director, Methodology Center, PI, funded since 1996 Projects: Innovative Methods for Constructing Just-in-Time Adaptive Interventions Multidimensional and Dynamic Moderation in Drug Abuse and HIV Studies New Statistical Procedures for High-Dimensional Complex Drug Abuse Data Innovative Methods

  25. SSRI 2015-2020 Strategic Aims Data Knowledge  Impact Identify and evaluate approaches for translating knowledge into policies, programs, practices, and products that achieve broad and sustained uptake and utility Dissemination and Implementation Science

  26. SSRI 2015-2020 Strategic Aims Clearinghouse For Military Family Readiness, Dept. of Defense, Daniel Perkins, Professor of Family and Youth Resilience and Policy, PI. Aim: Build capacity of military and civilian human service providers to implement evidence-based programs, policies and practices with military personnel and their families toward improving health outcomes and reducing healthcare costs. Dissemination and Implementation Science

  27. SSRI 2015-2020 Strategic Aims Bilingualism, Mind and Brain,” NSF PIRE, Judith Kroll, Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Linguistics, PI (2010-2017); “Translating cognitive and brain science to language learning environments,” NSF PIRE, GuiliDussias, Professor of Spanish, Linguistics and Psychology, PI (2016-2021) Aims: Identify biosocial processes in the acquisition and use of two languages; Translate basic science for educational practice and policy Dissemination and Implementation Science

  28. Other Training Grants in the Social & Behavioral Sciences Big Data NSF Prevention Methodology NIH Healthy Aging NIH Demography NIH Children’s Learning IES

  29. Questions?

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