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Christine A. Bachrach, PhD and Ronald P. Abeles, PhD

Christine A. Bachrach is with the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, Md. Ronald P. Abeles is with the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Christine A. Bachrach, PhD, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, 6100 Executive Blvd, Room 8B07, MSC 7510, Bethesda, MD 20892-7510 (e-mail: cbachrach{at}nih.gov).

Programs within the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have recently taken steps to enhance social science contributions to health research.

A June 2000 conference convened by the NIH Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research highlighted the role of the social sciences in health research and developed an agenda for advancing such research. The conference and agenda underscored the importance of research on basic social scientific concepts and constructs, basic social science research on the etiology of health and illness, and the application of basic social science constructs in health services, treatment, and prevention research.

Recent activities at NIH suggest a growing commitment to social science research and its integration into interdisciplinary multilevel studies of health.

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