OVERALL: PROJECT SUMMARY The Population Research Center (PRC) at the University of Texas at Austin (UT) seeks to renew our P2C infrastructure funding to continue successful programs and launch new initiatives that will catalyze the next generation of population dynamics research regarding the social, structural, and contextual processes underlying population health and health disparities. The PRC serves its faculty scholars through three established and efficient Cores: An Administrative Core, a Development Core, and a Scientific and Technical Core. The work of the PRC will be organized around five specific aims: (1) To advance and innovate population dynamics research through the cultivation of a collaborative and productive intellectual community; (2) To assist PRC’s faculty scholars in successfully competing for external funding; (3) To provide mentoring, scaffolding, and prioritization of services that enable Early Stage Investigators to conduct cutting-edge research and ultimately to achieve research independence; (4) To deliver timely, efficient, and effective pre- award and post-award administration, computing technology, and statistical supports that allow PRC faculty scholars to successfully conduct, and disseminate, impactful population dynamics research; and (5) To share P2C-enabled resources with research community members at other institutions across Texas. PRC faculty scholars are leading experts in the center’s four Primary Research Areas: Population Health and Well-Being; Reproductive, Maternal, and Infant Health; Family Demography and Human Development; and Education, Work, and Institutions. The activities and supports provided by the P2C infrastructure funding will allow PRC faculty scholars to continue to advance the field’s understanding of what factors promote population health and what factors undermine health and increase health inequities.

OVERALL: PROJECT NARRATIVE With infrastructure support from the Population Dynamics Branch of NICHD, the Population Research Center at The University of Texas at Austin aims to advance public health understanding of the social, structural, and contextual processes underlying population health and health disparities.