The Berkeley Population Center fosters interdisciplinary research in population studies, bringing together students and researchers from a variety of disciplines, including economics, public health, sociology, law, public policy, environmental studies.  Research at BPC is innovative and trailblazing, combining the best of each discipline with the focus on populations.  Regions studied include the United States, Costa Rica, Kenya, India, and many other countries.  This research contributes to our four signature themes of:

• Population health
• Families in/as context
• Labor
• Immigration

To this we apply the insights, techniques and tools of four overarching themes:

• Population theory
• Innovative methods
• Historical demography
• Data collection/dissemination

Many research projects cover multiple thematic areas. Each link above leads to a list of some of the current projects in that area, organized by faculty member's last name