The Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health offers a selection of three academic program areas to prepare graduates at the masters and doctoral levels to address critical public health problems through careers in academia, research organizations, and professional practice settings. Students focus their degree program in one of the Department's three track areas: The Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health (PFRH) teaching and research activities focus on the basic reproductive processes and on biological and social determinants of population change and its social and economic consequences. PFRH is the primary academic base within the Johns Hopkins University for the core discipline of demography. PFRH faculty are multidisciplinary, drawn from demography and related social sciences, sociology, epidemiology, public health, economics, family planning administration, medicine, nursing, social work, nutrition, policy analysis, developmental psychology and related behavioral sciences. The scope of research and training is global. |
