Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco’s 12th Annual Meeting Feb.15-18, 2006
Disney's Coronado Springs Resort
Orlando, Fla.
http://www.srnt.org/meeting/2006/index.html

The Society of Behavioral Medicine (SBM) Annual Meeting Scientific Sessions Behavioral Medicine Across the Lifespan March 22-25, 2006
San Francisco Marriott
San Francisco
http://www.sbm.org/meeting/2006/

Canadian Evaluation Society National Conference Improving the Human Condition: Critiquing the Past, Confronting the Future
June 4-7, 2006
Delta Prince Edward
Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada http://c2006.evaluationcanada.ca/index.cgi?_lang=en

NIH State-of-the-Science Conference on Tobacco Use: Prevention, Cessation and Control
June 12-14, 2006
Natcher Conference Center
National Institutes of Health
Building 45, 45 Center Drive
Bethesda, Md. 20892 http://consensus.nih.gov/2006/2006TobaccoSOS029html.htm

Annual Scientific Meeting of the Research Society on Alcoholism
June 24-28, 2006
Marriott Waterfront Hotel
Baltimore
 http://www.rsoa.org/2006meet-indexAbs.htm

2006 Child Health Services Research Meeting June 24, 2006
Washington State Convention & Trade Center
Accomodations at Sheraton Seattle Hotel & Towers and The Westin Seattle Seattle
http://www.academyhealth.org/childhealth/index.htm

AcademyHealth’s Annual Research Meeting
June 25-27, 2006
Washington State Convention & Trade Center
Accomodations at Sheraton Seattle Hotel & Towers and The Westin Seattle Seattle
http://www.academyhealth.org/arm/index.htm

Health Disparities Research Methods Training Symposium
July 12, 2006
Registration information TBA
This NCI training is designed to increase the competency of researchers to conduct health disparities research by enhancing skills training in measurement, sampling, methods, and statistical techniques relevant to health disparities research.  This meeting is co-funded by the NCI Center to Reduce Cancer Health Disparities and coordinated through the Tobacco Research Network on Disparities.
For more information, contact Vickie Shavers, PhD, National Cancer Institute by phone at (301) 594-1725 or by e-mail at shaversv@mail.nih.gov.

2nd Biennial Workshop to Increase Diversity in Research Funding
Sept. 6-8, 2006
Registration information TBA
This NCI workshop is designed to increase successful competition for NIH grants among underrepresented minority investigators. For more information, contact Vickie Shavers, PhD, National Cancer Institute by phone at (301) 594-1725 or by e-mail at shaversv@mail.nih.gov.

2006 Addictions Health Services Research Conference
October 23-25, 2006
Little Rock Peabody Hotel
Little Rock, Ark.
This year’s conference will be hosted by the Department of Psychiatry, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. The theme will be Substance Abuse Health Services Research:  Understanding the Community Perspective. More information will be available on the Web in late February.