The Program organizes in depth graduate training in population dynamics for students from the United States, developing countries from throughout the world and a number of other developed countries with an aim of expanding the capacity of shaping policies relevant to population and development processes.

Demographic processes impact a large set of social, economic and quality of life processes. Nonetheless, in many societies the capacity to integrate knowledge of these processes with public and private policy dynamics is very limited.

The Population and Development Program (PDP) recruits students from throughout the world, provides indepth training in demography and development processes, and provides support for the re-integration of these scholars into policy relevant positions in their origin regions.

The PDP and its predecessor, the International Population Program, have trained over 100 Ph.D. and several dozen Masters degree professionals from over 40 counties. Over half of these professionals remain active in key university, government, and international agency positions throughout the world. Their efforts have significantly increased the degree of sophisticated demographic input into a range of policy processes.

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John and Mary Lou Gifford endowment

• Mary M. Kritz (Development Sociology)
• David Brown (Development Sociology)
• Parfait Eloundou-Enyegue (Development Sociology)
• Linda Williams (Development Sociology)
• Thomas Hirschl (Development Sociology)
• Alaka Basu (Sociology)