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PAA/APC Director of Government Meets with NIH Director Dr. Collins

On January 13, PAA/APC Director of Government Affairs, Mary Jo Hoeksema (pictured below fourth from right) met with the Director of the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Francis Collins, and Director of the National Institute on Aging, Dr. Richard Hodes, and Deputy Director of the National Institute on Aging, Dr. Marie Bernard. Participating in the meeting as a member of the Friends of NIA Executive Committee, Mary Jo was the only representative of the behavioral and social science research community in attendance. During the course of the meeting she thanked Dr. Collins for appointing Dr. Bill Riley, Director of the NIH Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research, encouraged NIH and NIA to continue investing in behavioral and social sciences research, and expressed the community’s interest in the recently released NIH announcement on health economics research.