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:

• Understand multifactorial perinatal influences on health trajectories and disparities across the lifespan
• Apply interdisciplinary science and technology to the challenge of eliminating health disparities in the 21st century
• Increase the proportion of underrepresented minorities in science and medicine
• Train the next generation of scientists to approach research using an interdisciplinary lens
• Engage, educate, and empower families to reduce health disparities for themselves and within their communities
• Serve as a model learning laboratory for reducing perinatal origins of disparities through innovative interventions