Health School Plans Studies On Population

The School of Public Health has announced plans to establish a center to study world population problems. The Center for Population Studies will concern itself not only with techniques of contraception but also with the social changes that must accompany the introduction of these techniques.

John C. Snyder, dean of the School of Public Health, has stated that the "rapidly increasing population of the world constitutes a challenge to our best minds."

Believing that the simple problems requiring the work of only individual scientists have already been overcome, the Center will draw to its faculty both social and biological scientists, whether or not they have ever worked in population studies before. For some of the participants, this will mean a change of field in mid-career.

Chair Endowed

The Center has in hand funds for an endowed professorship and is currently seeking someone to fill the post. In addition, the Center needs $2,400,000 for building and endowment.

Population studies involve not only regulation of family size and the physiology of human reproduction, but also social issues: problems of education and human motivation in spreading contraceptive techniques, the relation between family size and the health of mother and children, the economics of population control, and methods of combating the effects of overpopulation and poverty on both families and communities.