Agenda

Thursday, February 27, 2025

10:00 a.m. – 10:10 a.m. Welcome and Introduction
Bill Klein, PhD, National Cancer Institute
10:10 a.m. – 10:20 a.m. Overview of the NIH Health Behavior Theories Project
Sydney O’Connor, PhD, NIH Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research
10:20 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Setting the Stage: What is a Health Behavior Theory?
Alex Rothman, PhD, University of Minnesota
10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. What a Health Behavior Theory Should Do and How We Can Get There
Angela Bryan, Ph.D., University of Colorado Boulder

Moderator, Darrell Hudson, Ph.D., M.P.H., University of Michigan School of Public Health
11:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Health Equity and the Development and Use of Health Behavior Theories
María Fernández, Ph.D., University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Sydney O'Connor, Ph.D., Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research


Moderator, Genevieve Dunton, Ph.D., M.P.H., University of Southern California
11:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. Break*
11:45 a.m. – 12:15 p.m. Synthesizing Evidence to Advance Health Behavior Theories
Emily Hennessy, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School
Talea Cornelius, Ph.D., M.S.W., M.S., Columbia University Irving Medical Center


Moderator, Paschal Sheeran, Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
12:15 p.m. – 12:45 p.m. Novel Approaches for Advancing Theory Development and Testing
Marissa Burgermaster, Ph.D., University of Texas Dell Medical School
David Conroy, Ph.D., University of Michigan


Moderator, Bryan Kutner, Ph.D., Albert Einstein College of Medicine
12:45 p.m. – 1:45 p.m. Lunch*
1:45 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Invited Panel Reactions and Discussion Panelists:
Panelists:

Danielle Arigo, Ph.D., Rowan University
Amy Boucher, Ph.D., Lirio
Neil Lewis Jr., Ph.D., Cornell University
Susan Michie, Ph.D., University College London


Moderators:
Alex Rothman, Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Elise Rice, Ph.D., National Institute on Aging, NIH
3:00 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. Break*
3:15 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. Synthesis and Future Directions
Facilitators:
Angela Pfammatter, PhD, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Sydney O’Connor, PhD, NIH Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research
4:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Summary and Closing
Sydney O’Connor, PhD, NIH Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research
Angela Pfammatter, PhD, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Elise Rice, PhD, National Institute on Aging, NIH
Alex Rothman, PhD, University of Minnesota

*Attendees are responsible for meals and/or light refreshments are at their own expense. The government and/or government contractors are not involved in facilitating the provision of food and/or light refreshments.