The Berkeley Population Center was founded in 2005 as an interdisciplinary center for population research on the Berkeley campus and beyond, and is currently supported by a Population Research Infrastructure Program (PRIP) grant from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD R21 HD056581).

The Berkeley Population Center continues a 50-year old tradition of population research at UC Berkeley, and also fosters collaboration with the University of California campuses at San Francisco and Davis.

Center faculty currently come from the Berkeley Departments of Anthropology, Demography, Economics, History, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology and Statistics in the College of Letters and Sciences, as well as from the School of Public Health; the Haas School of Business; Environmental Science, Policy, and Management; and Agricultural and Resource Economics.

The Center's mission is to promote research and collaboration all aspects of population studies.

Our signature themes are:

• Population health
• Families in/as context
• Labor
• Immigration
• Population theory
• Innovative methods
• Historical demography
• Data collection/dissemination