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December 12, 2008
Retreat Refreshes Behavioral, Social Sciences
Dr. Christine Bachrach
Dr. Christine Bachrach, acting director of the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research, wanted just one thing out of the first-ever day-long retreat for NIH’s widely dispersed community of behavioral and social scientists, held Nov. 12 at Natcher Bldg.
December 12, 2008
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New Hope for Treatment of Addiction
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Drug addiction is notoriously tough to treat, but now research is showing a fresh way to tackle the problem. It’s called computer-based training for cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT4CBT)
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January 28-29, 2009 Dissemination and Implementation Conference
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Stigma: Lessons & New Directions from a Decade of Research on Mental Illness
July 12-24, 2009
OBSSR/NIH Summer Training Institute on Randomized Clinical Trials Involving Behavioral Interventions
May 3-8, 2009
Institute on Systems Science and Health
May 22-25, 2009
Gene-Environment Interplay in Stress and Health at the Association for Psychological Science 21st Annual Convention, San Francisco, CA
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Home > About OBSSR > Staff
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Christine A. Bachrach, Ph.D.
Acting Director
Christine A. Bachrach, Ph.D., has been appointed Acting Director for Behavioral
and Social Sciences Research, NIH, and Acting Director, Office of Behavioral and Social
Sciences Research. Following David Abrams' departure from NIH, Dr. Bachrach
egan serving in this position on April 7, 2008.
Dr. Bachrach has worked in the Demographic and Behavioral Sciences Branch in NICHD's
Center for Population Research since 1988, first as a statistician/demographer
and since June 1992 as chief of the branch. She came to the NIH and NICHD
from the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics. She was a long-time member of the
NIH Behavioral and Social Sciences Research Coordinating Committee and a founder
and co-chair of the NICHD Consortium for Behavioral and Social Sciences Research.
Other activities at NIH have included oversight of the National Longitudinal
Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health), co-chairing the 2000 NIH Conference,
“Toward Higher Levels of Analysis: Progress and Promise in Research on Social and
Cultural Dimensions of Health”, and co-chairing the Social Environment Working Group of
the National Children's Study.
Christine Bachrach received her Ph.D. in Population Dynamics from John Hopkins
University, School of Hygiene and Public Health. Her own research has examined a
variety of topics related to the family, including fertility,
contraceptive use, sexual behavior, cohabitation, and adoption.
Contact Details
Email: cbachrach@nih.gov
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