The Minnesota Population Center (MPC) is a University-wide interdisciplinary cooperative for demographic research. MPC supports innovative research in population dynamics at the University of Minnesota and around the world by fostering connections among population researchers across disciplines, developing leading-edge collaborative research projects, providing technical and administrative support for demographic research, and training the next generation of interdisciplinary population researchers. MPC serves over 200 members from ten colleges and 26 departments at the University of Minnesota as well as external members from other colleges and Universities without a population center.
The Center has five primary research areas:
- Population Health and Health Systems
- Reproductive Health
- Spatial and Environmental Demography
- Structural Racism and Health Inequities
- Work, Family, and Time
MPC receives funding through the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Population Research Infrastructure Program (P2C HD041023)