Society of Behavioral Medicine (SBM) 46th Annual Meeting & Scientific Sessions

Society of Behavioral Medicine (SBM) 46th Annual Meeting & Scientific Sessions is organized by Society of Behavioral Medicine (SBM) and will be held from Mar 26 - 29, 2025 at Hilton San Francisco Union Square, San Francisco, California, United States of America.

SBM 2025 Pre- Conference Courses: Wednesday, March 26, 2025

Description:
The meeting theme is "Context Matters: Bridging Perspectives in Behavioral Medicine." Policies, information systems, institutions, medical interventions, and the environment impact our behavior and our health, and the science and practice of behavioral medicine are best equipped to have impact when accounting for these contextual factors. Meeting sessions will showcase the importance of considering multiple levels of context, as well as offer opportunities to bridge perspectives across disciplines and professions. Attendees will leave the conference ready to increase the impact of their work, individually and through the bridges that will be built.

Why Attend SBM?
SBM is a vibrant, multi-disciplinary society focused on the role of behavior in improving health. Most of our country's most daunting health challenges have behavioral origins, and achieving SBM’s vision of “better health through behavior change” has never been more important. SBM members include the nation’s leading scientists and practitioners, and SBM annual meetings are the premier forum for the most influential behavioral medicine research.

What is Behavioral Medicine?
Most of the world’s health challenges have behavioral causes and can be greatly helped by behavioral solutions. Unhealthy behaviors like tobacco use, sedentary lifestyle, poor sleep, and unhealthy eating play a key contributing role for much of the diseases, suffering, and early deaths in the United States. Healthy behaviors—like quitting smoking, exercising, sleeping well, eating right, getting cancer screenings, managing stress, getting vaccinated, and using mindfulness techniques—can prevent disease, be a vital part of a disease treatment plan, and significantly improve quality of life.

But these behaviors are easier said than done. That's where behavioral medicine comes in. Behavioral medicine is a multi-disciplinary field with scientifically proven strategies for improving health behaviors in individual patients' lives and in entire communities. What you do matters, and so does where you live. The Society of Behavioral Medicine (SBM) is here to help.