July 15, 2023, 10:45 - 12:00 p.m.

NIH Summer Institute on Randomized Behavioral Clinical Trials

The Summer Institute provides an advanced course in planning, designing, and conducting high-impact randomized controlled trials of health-related behavioral interventions. It emphasizes programmatic research and prepares fellows to lead or collaborate on systematic efforts to develop and improve health-related behavioral interventions and on rigorous, high-impact behavioral trials. The Institute’s long-term goal is to build an outstanding scientific workforce that will conduct clinical trials that can change practice guidelines, health care policies, and third-party coverage for health-related behavioral interventions, and that can help to expand the role of evidence-based behavioral interventions in clinical and preventive services. By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

1. Evaluate the evidentiary requirements of health care gatekeepers and the needs of stakeholders in health-related behavioral interventions.
2. Formulate long-term goals for high-impact health-related behavioral intervention research programs.
3. Use translational research models and optimization frameworks to guide intervention research.
4. Incorporate basic behavioral and social science findings and advanced methodologies in this research.
5. Understand the role of multidisciplinary team science in high-impact behavioral intervention research.
6. Produce a plan to disseminate the knowledge gained in this course.

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d3c Presentation

Optimization of Adaptive Interventions
Inbal Billie Nahum-Shani, PhD
Director, d3center
Research Professor
Institute for Social Research