About the Department HDFS is a multi-disciplinary department located in the College of Health and Human Sciences. With 22 tenure track and 8 clinical faculty members and 35 PhD students, the Department affords many opportunities to develop interdisciplinary collaborative research. Current research foci in the department include early childhood education and policy, diverse family systems, biological underpinnings of normative and non-normative development and health, advanced methodology, health & well-being, interpersonal relations, military families, cross-cultural development, health disparities, as well as research focused on Latinx, Multiracial, Asi