Claire Brindis, Ph.D.

Dr. Claire Brindis is an Associate Adjunct Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Adolescent Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, and Executive Director of the National Adolescent Health Information Center, recently funded by the Bureau of Maternal and Child Health. She is also Director of the Center for Reproductive Health Policy Research at the University's Institute for Health Policy Studies.

Dr. Brindis has conducted numerous research projects and policy analyses in the area of adolescent pregnancy and pregnancy prevention, and comprehensive school-based health centers in California. She has also developed two evaluation guidebooks and conducted workshops for family life educators at state and national conferences on improving the effectiveness of family life education..

Dr. Brindis is the author of Adolescent Pregnancy and Parenting in California: A Strategic Plan for Action, and Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention: A Guidebook for Communities, as well as a special issue of ETR's Family Life Educator, "Reducing Adolescent Pregnancy: The Next Steps for Program, Research and evaluating comprehensive, integrated services for children and youth, access to quality reproductive health services, and evaluations of innovative community-based programs serving at-risk youth.

Her current research projects include: an evaluation of components of the California's Office of Family Planning's Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Initiative; an evaluation of California's Options for Recovery and Perinatal Services Network, a comprehensive statewide program for chemically dependent pregnant and parenting women; and an evaluation of school-based clinics in Denver, Colorado.