Bachrach works to establish new population health association
Faculty Associate Christine Bachrach has been working with colleagues during the past two years to establish IAPHS with a view of stimulating interdisciplinary research among health population scientists.
The association intends to provide a small, broadly interdisciplinary, group focused exclusively on population health science and its application to improving health, filling a unique niche with a fully interdisciplinary, cells-to-society understanding of health.
"After two years in planning and the contributions of many donors and volunteers, IAPHS is now a membership organization and is welcoming both individual and institutional members," Dr. Bachrach wrote to colleagues in early October 2016. Because it is a young organization just getting off the ground "it offers opportunities for networking, leadership, and professional development that may be less accessible within larger organizations," she wrote.
Dr. Bachrach is a founding Director and current Managing Director of IAPHS. The association plans to hold its first leadership elections in January 2017.