42 U.S.C. § 283c — Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research

submitted 82 years ago by Pub. L. 103-43 to r/title-42-THE-PUBLIC-HEALTH-AND-WELFARE · 171 words · no verdicts yet

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NIH has an Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research, led by a director. This office coordinates research on how behavior affects health, including topics like teen pregnancy and suicide. It does not cover neurobiology research or cellular-level studies.

(a) The law creates an office inside the Office of the Director of NIH called the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research. A director, appointed by the Director of NIH, leads this office. (b) When it comes to research on how human behavior relates to developing, treating, and preventing medical conditions, the Office's director must (1) coordinate the research that NIH's agencies conduct or support, and (2) identify behavioral and social sciences research projects that the national research institutes should conduct or support, and develop those projects together with the institutes. This authorized research can include topics like teen pregnancy, infant mortality, violent behavior, suicide, and homelessness. It does not include neurobiological research, and it does not include research that studies an organism's behavior just to figure out what is happening at the cellular or molecular level.

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(a)

There is established within the Office of the Director of NIH an office to be known as the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (in this section referred to as the “Office”). The Office shall be headed by a director, who shall be appointed by the Director of NIH.

(b)

(1)

With respect to research on the relationship between human behavior and the development, treatment, and prevention of medical conditions, the Director of the Office shall—

(A)

coordinate research conducted or supported by the agencies of the National Institutes of Health; and

(B)

identify projects of behavioral and social sciences research that should be conducted or supported by the national research institutes, and develop such projects in cooperation with such institutes.

(2)

Research authorized under paragraph (1) includes research on teen pregnancy, infant mortality, violent behavior, suicide, and homelessness. Such research does not include neurobiological research, or research in which the behavior of an organism is observed for the purpose of determining activity at the cellular or molecular level.

Source credit: (July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title IV, § 404A, as added Pub. L. 103–43, title II, § 203(a), June 10, 1993, 107 Stat. 145.)

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1944Enacted · Pub. L. 103-43 · 107 Stat. 145

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