Welcome and Introductions

Kenneth Prewitt

School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University Chair, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education (DBASSE)
Advisory Committee, National Research Council

Keynote Address: How Social Sciences Enable Water Filtration in Bangladesh Villages

Rita R. Cowell

President and Chairman, CosmosID, Inc.
Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University
Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Maryland, College Park

Question and Answer Session

Panel Presentations and Discussion: Bringing Social and Behavioral Sciences to Bear on National Security, Medicine, and Engineering

Moderator: Mary L. (Missy) Cummings
Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Patient Safety as an Exercise in Behavioral Change

Lucian L. Leape
Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public
Health, Harvard University

National Security: Assassination, Interrogation, and School Shootings

Robert A. Fein
The Metis Group, Inc.
Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

Distracted Driving: Engineering Meets Cognition

John D. Lee
Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Panel Discussion, Q/A

Reactions from the NAS, IOM, and NAE Presidents

Moderator: Robert M. Hauser
Executive Director, DBASSE

Ralph J. Cicerone
President, National Academy of Sciences
Chair, National Research Council

Harvey V. Fineberg
President, Institute of Medicine

Charles M. Vest
President, National Academy of Sciences

Question and Answer Session

Closing Remarks:
Kenneth Prewitt and Robert M. Hauser