Christine A Bachrach

Dr. Bachrach is a Research Professor in the Department of Sociology and the Maryland Population Research Center at the University of Maryland, College Park. She co-directs the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Health and Society Scholars Program, a fellowship program in population health. She previously served as Acting Associate Director for Behavioral and Social Sciences Research and Acting Director of the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research at the National Institutes of Health, and as Chief of the Demographic and Behavioral Sciences Branch at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. She has served as President of the Population Association of America and Chair of the Population Section of the American Sociological Association. Her current interests include the development of infrastructure for the field of population health and research on the integration of cultural theory in social demography. Previous publications span the areas of fertility, family formation, marriage and divorce, adoption, sexual behavior, contraceptive practice, population health, and survey methodology. A demographer by training, Dr. Bachrach received her M.A. in Sociology from Georgetown University and her Ph.D. in Population Dynamics from John Hopkins University.