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Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education (DBASSE)

The National Academies Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education advances the behavioral and social sciences and their application to policy and practice.

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Opportunities for Doing Social-Environmental Research with Little to No Funding

  • September 22, 2025
  • 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM (EDT)
  • Webinar
  • Past

Graduate students, post-docs, and early-career faculty engaged in social-environmental research face an unprecedented research landscape. Decreased federal research funding will constrain their abilit...

Addressing the Impact of School Active Shooter Drills on Health and Wellbeing: Vision to Action Summit

  • August 25, 2025
  • 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM (EDT)
  • Summit
  • Past

Active shooter drills have become a common practice in U.S. Schools—95% of public K–12 schools conduct them, and many states mandate their use. However, there is little consistency in how drills are i...

AI, Energy Demand, and the Environment: Perspectives on Information Sharing

  • August 15, 2025
  • 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM (EDT)
  • Webinar
  • Past

The projected growth in electricity demand from AI-driven data centers challenges climate mitigation, water resources, and low-cost electricity goals. Many research studies and policy responses focus...

Microplastics and Health Webinar Series: Webinar 4 - Research Priorities, Mitigation Strategies, and Public Communication in the Face of Uncertainties

  • June 9, 2025
  • 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM (EDT)
  • Webinar
  • Past

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Environmental Health Matters Initiative organized a webinar series to explore human exposure to and related health effects of microplast...

A New Vision for High Quality Preschool Curriculum: Leadership Exchange

  • May 7, 2025
  • 9:00 AM - 3:30 PM (EDT)
  • Meeting
  • Past

Join us virtually for the opening panel of a leadership exchange focused on advancing the recommendations outlined in the Board on Children, Youth, and Families’ recent consensus study report, A New V...

Microplastics and Health Webinar Series: Webinar 3 - The Potential Hazards to Human Health and The Environment from Microplastics and the Complexity of Assessing Risks

  • April 10, 2025
  • 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (EDT)
  • Webinar
  • Past

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Environmental Health Matters Initiative organized a webinar series to explore human exposure to and related health effects of microplast...

Microplastics and Health Webinar Series: Webinar 2 – Distribution of Microplastics in the Environment and Human Exposure Pathways

  • March 20, 2025
  • 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM (EDT)
  • Webinar
  • Past

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Environmental Health Matters Initiative organized a webinar series to explore human exposure to and related health effects of microplast...

Microplastics and Health Webinar Series: Webinar 1 – Methodologies for Appropriate and Improved Sampling, Analysis, Characterization, Monitoring, and Reporting of Microplastics

  • February 27, 2025
  • 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM (EST)
  • Webinar
  • Past

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Environmental Health Matters Initiative organized a webinar series to explore human exposure to and related health effects of microplast...

Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work: Report Release Webinar

  • November 21, 2024
  • 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM (EST)
  • Webinar
  • Past

Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have renewed interest from policy makers and the public about the implications of AI for jobs and workers. A surge of technological progress has driven...

Guidance on Routine Childhood Immunizations: Release Webinar

  • November 18, 2024
  • 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM (EST)
  • Webinar
  • Past

Childhood vaccinations have long-established benefits in preventing illness, averting deaths, and reducing healthcare and other societal costs. The COVID-19 pandemic led to significant challenges i...

A Long COVID diagnosis: Implications for social, behavioral, and economic sciences

  • October 24, 2024
  • 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM (EDT)
  • Webinar
  • Past

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine recently released a report, A Long COVID Definition: A Chronic, Systemic Disease State with Profound Consequences, which defines Long COVI...

Income and Intergenerational Poverty

  • October 17, 2024
  • 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM (EDT)
  • Webinar
  • Past

The Committee on Policies and Programs to Reduce Intergenerational Poverty will host a virtual briefing to highlight the findings from the National Academies report on reducing intergenerational pover...

Advancing Child and Youth Health Care System Transformation: A Workshop

  • October 15, 2024
  • 9:30 AM - 3:30 PM (EDT)
  • Workshop
  • Past

This event hosted by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Forum for Children’s Well-Being, was held on Tuesday, October 15th, 2024 from 9:30am - 3:30 pm ET at the National A...

Developing and Assessing Ideas for Social and Behavioral Research to Speed Efficient and Equitable Industrial Decarbonization - Stakeholder Webinar

  • October 3, 2024
  • 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM (EDT)
  • Webinar
  • Past

Interest in decarbonizing various sectors of the U.S. economy has produced a rich body of scholarly research, policy studies, and practitioner reports on technology pathways and scenarios, with a part...

A Workshop on Future Directions for Social and Behavioral Science Methodologies in the Next Decade

  • September 25 - 26, 2024
  • Workshop
  • Past

The workshop gathers a broad group of experts to explore methodological and analytical innovations in the social and behavioral sciences, focusing discussions on future needs and methodological fronti...

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