Welcome to the ORBIT Institute!
The NIH-funded short course, ORBIT Institute: Developing Behavioral Treatments to Improve Health. This program is funded by the National Cancer Institute 5R25CA455065-04. Go to the NIH RePORTER Project Page for more information about the grant. A total of 25 Fellows per year (over the course of four consecutive years, 2023-2026) will be accepted into the ORBIT Institute and trained in behavioral intervention development for cancer prevention/treatment and related health behaviors.
2026 ORBIT Institute
The 2026 ORBIT Institute in-person meeting will be hosted at the AC Hotel in Tallahassee, Florida, from May 12 - 15, 2026. The application deadline for this cohort has closed (December 4, 2025). The ORBIT Institute consists of pre-course activities and assigned readings, an in-person workshop, followed by a series of bi-weekly webinars (via Zoom), individual consultation with one ORBIT Core Faculty member, and program evaluation activities.
Download the 2026 ORBIT Institute in-person agenda (PDF).
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The goals of the ORBIT Institute are:
- To increase the skills of Fellows in a phased approach, with associated innovative methods and designs for T1 translation of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (BSSR) to improve health.
- To conduct an ongoing evaluation of the success of the skills development course based upon three basic metrics:
(a) perceived value
(b) the reach of the course based upon website hits, number of applications, and train the trainer activities
(c) the impact of the course on the career trajectories of the Fellows (publications, grants) - To conduct ongoing curriculum development and refinement, as well as dissemination via technology, based upon results of quantitative and qualitative evaluations and new methodologies emerging over the grant period.
