Dr. Norman B. Anderson

Dr. Norman B. Anderson (Internet (google.com))

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Dr. Norman B. Anderson was raised in Greensboro, NC. He is still alive, but I could not find his date of birth so I called the APA, and all they know is that he was raised in Greensboro, NC. Dr. Norman B. Anderson has a Ph.D. He is the founding director, 1995-2000 Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR). The OBSSR is an office that was created by Congress in 1955, to coordinate the National Institutes of Health's behavioral and social science research. From 1995-2000, Dr. Norman B. Anderson served as an Associate Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Now he is the top guy at the American Psychological Association.

To quickly establish the Office's long-term goals, and to find strategies for achieving them, Dr. Norman B. Anderson and Dr. Harold Varmus worked closely with the scientific community. Here are the three goals: 1) to improve communications between public and the scientists, 2) to make behavioral and social science research and training more advanced and 3) to integrate something called a bio-behavioral perspective across NIH.

The office organized over $90 million in four years of funding initiatives, and all of that happened under the leadership of Dr. Anderson. Since the office succeeded, Congress tripled its operating budget from under $3 million to up to $10 million, which enabled the Office to have greater latitude in developing funding initiatives.

Dr. Anderson won several awards for his research, including: 1) the 1986 New Investigator Award from the Society of Behavioral Medicine; 2) the 1991 Award for Outstanding Contributions to Health Psychology from the American Psychological Association (APA); and 3) a Research Scientist Development Award from the National Institute of Mental Health, and several others from scientific societies.