Christine Bachrach, Ph.D.
Bio
Christine Bachrach is a social demographer and population health scientist with interests in social determinants of health, health disparities, fertility and family, culture and the brain, and the training/mentoring of health scientists. She has been Research Professor at the University of Maryland since 2010.
Bachrach spent much of her career promoting the health-related social sciences at the US National Institutes of Health, first as Chief of the Demographic and Behavioral Sciences Branch at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and subsequently as the NIH Acting Associate Director for Behavioral and Social Sciences Research. After leaving the NIH in 2010, she held the Nannerl O. Keohane Distinguished Visiting Professor at Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, co-directed the National Program Office for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholars program; and served as President of the Population Association of America. In 2015, she helped to establish the Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science (IAPHS), a scientific association dedicated to advancing an integrative understanding of the multiple pathways – from the biological to the behavioral to the societal – that interact to produce health. She served as the organization’s Managing Director and then Executive Director during its first four years, and as Senior Advisor from 2019-2023.
Degrees
Ph.D., Population Dynamics, Johns Hopkins University, 1979.
M.A., Sociology (Demography), Georgetown University, 1974.
B.A., Social Relations, Harvard College, 1972.