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NIH’s Role in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA)
NIH is well positioned to fund the best science in pursuit of improving the length and the quality of the lives of our citizens, while at the same time stimulating the economy.
March 06, 2009
OBSSR Hosts Conference on Dissemination, Implementation
Harvard Medical School’s
Dr. Jim Yong Kim
As a way to improve public health in a battered world, understanding poverty counts as much as knowing how proteins fold.
March 06, 2009
Research Funders Collaborate To Reduce Childhood Obesity
A new National Collaborative on Childhood Obesity Research (NCCOR) was launched Feb. 19 to accelerate progress on reversing the epidemic of overweight and obesity among U.S. youth.
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May 26, 2009, 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Building a Bridge: Transitional Programs from the Criminal Justice to the Community Setting for HIV+ Drug Users
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
July 12-24, 2009
OBSSR/NIH Summer Training Institute on Randomized Clinical Trials Involving Behavioral Interventions
August 2-7, 2009
2009 NIH Summer Institute on Community-Based Participatory Research Targeting the Medically Underserved
Application Deadline: May 15, 2009
August 9, 2009
Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR): When Academic/Research Institutions Meet the Real World
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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
began 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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