TO THE CHAPTER INVISIBLE
Norman B. Anderson 1955-2024 Psychologist, Author
R enowned behavioral and social sciences leader, and clinical psychologist Dr. Norman B. Anderson (Washing- ton (DC) Alumni 2012) unexpectedly entered the Chapter Invisible on March 1, 2024. Anderson had a wide-ranging career as a national leader, first as a scientist and tenured professor studying health equity issues and mind/ body health, and later as an executive in government, nonprofit, and higher education contexts. Norman B. Anderson was born on October 16, 1955, in Greensboro, NC, to the late Drs. Charles W. and Lois J. Anderson, co-pastors of the United Institutional Baptist Church in Greensboro. Anderson attended public schools in Greensboro, North Carolina, and gradu- ated from Grimsley Senior High School. He received his BA degree from North Carolina Central Uni- versity and his master’s and doctoral degrees in
“ ANDERSON BECAME CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER (CEO) AND EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT OF THE AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION (APA) ”
to academia in 2017 as Assistant Vice President for Research and Academic Affairs and Professor of Social Work at Florida State University (FSU). He received several significant awards from scientific societies and uni- versities for his research, service, and leadership. Among his numerous honors, in 2012, Anderson was elected to membership in the prestigious National Academy of Medicine of the National Academies of Science. In 2013, he was inducted into the National Black College Alumni Hall of Fame for his work in science. Anderson also received four honorary doctorate degrees. Anderson was a Fellow of the American Associa- tion for the Advancement of Science, the American Psychological Association, the Association for Psy- chological Science, the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research, and the Society of Behavioral
clinical psychology from the University of North Carolina-Greensboro. He began his career as an assistant professor at Duke School of Medicine. With colleagues, Anderson developed one of the first bio-psycho-social models of racism as a stressor for African Americans, which was published in 1999 and was awarded the 2023 Sci- entific Impact Award from the Society of Experimental Social Psychology. He left Duke to become an Associate Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). He was the first director of the NIH Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research
(OBSSR). At NIH, he facil- itated behavioral and social sciences research across all the Institutes and Centers of the NIH. Following his tenure at NIH, and after serving briefly as a professor at the Harvard School of Public Health, Anderson became Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Executive Vice President of the American Psychological Association (APA), a position he held for 13 years. He was the second-longest serving (and first African Amer- ican) CEO since the organization’s founding in 1892. Anderson retired from APA in 2015. Anderson returned
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