The Population Studies and Training Center promotes and supports innovative research on the causes and consequences of population size, composition, distribution, and wellbeing in the U.S. and globally. The Center carries out this mission by providing state-of-the-art facilities and research support to associates; maintaining a forum for intra- and interdisciplinary exchange on population science; supporting a high-quality graduate and postdoctoral training program; mentoring a diverse and inclusive community of population scholars at Brown; engineering and seeding promising new areas of population research; and developing cross-unit collaborations on campus and with partners in Rhode Island (RI) and around the world.