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Registration Now Open for Fall 2025 Symposium!

The 2025 Advancing Health Equity through Multidisciplinary Research and Training Symposium is being offered by the Perinatal Origin of Disparities (POD) Center in collaboration with the Center for Healthcare Policy and Research (CHPR) and the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing ReACH T32 Program on Friday, September 26th, from 10 AM – 5 PM at the UC Davis Health Education Building.

We've Moved!

As of November 2023, the POD Center's administrative home has moved to the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at UC Davis. This occurred when POD Center Co-Director Dr. Leigh Ann Simmons started a new position on November 1, 2023 as a tenured professor at the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at UC Davis. 

While the POD Center has transitioned, we continue our mission statement's commitment to:

POD Center Pilot Project Program - Awards Announced!

The POD Center Pilot Project Program (PPP) was established with support from the Office of Research to advance research that contributes to preventing health disparities early in life. Through this program the POD Center provides financial support for new or ongoing projects that aim to understand the multifactorial perinatal influences on health trajectories and disparities across the lifespan and/or to reduce the perinatal origins of disparities through innovative interventions.