Themes
Eight signature themes collectively describe the population research interests of the Center. The themes are interdisciplinary, comprehensive in their coverage, and broadly integrative, drawing on faculty from diverse departments across campus and bringing them together around common research interests.
- Sexual Behavior, Contraceptive Use, and Reproductive Health
- Social science oriented studies of sexual behavior, contraceptive practice, unwanted pregnancy, and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) including HIV/AIDS
- Fertility, Families, and Children
- Fertility, household structure and family process in relation to children's living circumstances and experiences, and factors affecting children’s health and development
- Life Course Perspectives
- Life course transitions, pathways, and trajectories relevant to health
- Biological and Social Interactions
- The integration of social science, behavioral, and biomedical approaches to understanding health
- Population Movement, Diversity, Inequality
- Immigration and migration; the racial, ethnic, gender, and socioeconomic composition of populations and inequalities therein; health disparities
- Place, Space, and Health
- The multidimensional characterization of social, spatial, and physical environments and consequences for health related behavior and health outcomes
- Population and Environment
- Population processes, human behavior, and agency in the transformation of Earth's surface
- Population and Health Policies and Programs
- The design, collection, and analysis of data to monitor and evaluate population and related programs and interventions in a global setting with the goal of informing policy
