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| The Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health (PFRH) was created in 1998 from the former Departments of Population Dynamics and Maternal and Child Health. Its goals are to address problems and changing patterns of population growth and reproduction across the globe, and to assure the health and development of human populations across the life span. The PFRH department focuses primarily on vulnerable populations—mothers and infants, families, adolescents, children with special health care needs, women, and the elderly—in the United States and internationally. To accomplish these goals, the faculty apply the sciences of demography, developmental psychology, epidemiology, sociology, health services research, medicine, nursing, nutrition, economics, communication sciences, policy analysis, and related disciplines to research and professional practice. Research and practice are integral to the Department's doctoral- and master's-level academic programs. |
