Welcome to this self-paced version of the first MOOC on behavioral medicine on the edX platform! We are thrilled to have you on board, and hope you enjoy spending the next weeks exploring behavioral medicine for better health.

In the welcome section, we will give you some basic tools to familiarize yourself with the edX platform and a course overview. In the first section we look at Motivational Interviewing as a conversational counseling method to facilitate behavior change for better health. The following sections on stress, sleep, innovation in behavioral medicine service delivery and treatment, physical activity and everyday behaviors to minimize infection all include research-based concepts in behavioral medicine and interventions to improve health.