The UC Davis POD Center has six parts to its mission:
- To understand multifactorial perinatal influences on health trajectories and disparities across the lifespan
- To apply interdisciplinary science and technology to the challenge of eliminating health disparities in the 21st century
- To increase the proportion of underrepresented minorities in science and medicine
- To train the next generation of scientists to approach research using an interdisciplinary lens
- To engage, educate, and empower families to reduce health disparities for themselves and within their communities
- To serve as a model learning laboratory for reducing perinatal origins of disparities through innovative interventions