Our Mission

IBR was established at the University of Georgia in 1970. Then, and now, its missions have been:

• To encourage trans-disciplinary research by facilitating the exchange of information and ideas across disciplinary boundaries;
• To enhance the research efforts of individual faculty members by providing services, support, and opportunity;
• To enhance the ability of both emerging and eminent scholars to further their careers and to obtain extramural funding;
• To facilitate the development of young scholars and introduce them to grant proposal writing;
• To enhance the recognition of the social and behavioral sciences across campus; and
• To build and expand the infrastructure supporting research at the University of Georgia in order to remove obstacles and facilitate turning ideas into funded research.

The Advantages of Collaborative Research

Ongoing research at IBR spans a broad array of topics including but not limited to health disparities and health care delivery; education and learning, poverty and migration, environment and environmental health, basic bio-behavioral process, dilemmas in the work place, gene-environment interactions, strengthening families and communities, problems in development or aging, crime and delinquency, alcohol, drug use, health behavior and health processes, social context and social structure, many areas of basic research with humans and non-human animal models.