The Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics (CCDD) at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health focuses on improving methods for mathematical modeling and statistical inference on infectious disease data, engagement with policy makers to use the results of data to improve decision making, and outreach to provide education about disease dynamics to scientists in the field. CCDD initiatives include outreach to quantitatively gifted students who are members of underrepresented groups in public... Read more about Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics (TH Chan)

The Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice at Harvard Law School (CHHIRJ), launched in 2005, seeks to honor and continue the unfinished work of Charles Hamilton Houston. As Vice Dean of Howard Law School, Houston developed a multi-year strategy that ultimately culminated in the unanimous 1954 Supreme Court Decision, Brown v. Board of Education, ending the discriminatory “separate but equal” doctrine present in schools during segregation. CHHIRJ works to address the... Read more about Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice

The Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University supports research on the history and culture of people of African descent worldwide and provides a forum for collaboration and the exchange of ideas. The Hutchins Center hosts numerous projects and initiatives, including the HipHop Archive and Research Institute; the... Read more about The Hutchins Center for African and African American Research

The Immigration Initiative at Harvard University (IIH) was founded to further interdisciplinary scholarship, original research, and intellectual exchange among key parties interested in immigration policy and immigrant communities. Research at IIH focuses on the impacts of immigration enforcement on the lives of immigrant populations; policies affecting the educational experiences and future opportunities of immigrant students; and the relationships between immigration policy, health care, and child development. IIH hosts a... Read more about The Immigration Initiative at Harvard

The Blavatnik Institute of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School seeks to develop rich research and teaching programs surrounding today’s critical health care policy issues, while also guiding those who will shape policy in the future. The Institute’s research focuses on a wide variety of topics, including financing and delivery of health; quality of care; studies on disadvantaged populations; and access to care. The Institute houses a... Read more about Blavatnik Institute Health Care Policy

The Program on Negotiation (PON) at Harvard Law School is a consortium program of Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Tufts University, and serves as an interdisciplinary research center dedicated to developing the theory and practice of negotiation and dispute resolution in a range of public and private settings. Negotiation requires skills that draw on emotions, ethics, public policy, psychology, and management, and usually takes place in response to tensions and...

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The mission of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, at the Harvard Kennedy School, is to make human rights principles central to the formulation of good public policy. It aims to train human rights practitioners to think and act more strategically and to draw on the best social science research to create human rights solutions, through faculty whose expertise focuses on the most dangerous and intractable human rights challenges of the 21st century. Programs that have explored...

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The Women and Public Policy Program (WAPPP) of Harvard Kennedy School closes gender gaps in economic opportunity, political participation, health, and education by creating knowledge, training leaders, and informing public policy and organizational practices. Global health has significance for the Program’s research in the areas of organizational design; leadership, negotiation, and decision making; entrepreneurship and financial inclusion; political empowerment; education; and human...

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The Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics seeks to advance teaching and research on ethical issues in public life. With a focus on practical ethics, the Center seeks to help meet the growing need for teachers, scholars, and leaders who address questions of moral choice across many of the professions and in public life more generally, and promotes a perspective on ethics informed by both theory and practice. The Center explores the connection between the problems that professionals confront and the...

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The mission of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at the Harvard Kennedy School is to advance knowledge and policy analysis on challenging social problems at the interface of the public and private sector. It does this by bringing together thought leaders from both business and government and conducting research, facilitating dialogue, and looking for answers that are both intellectually rigorous and relevant to modern global and local policy....

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Founded at Harvard Law School in 2005, the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics exists to respond to the need for leading legal scholarship in these fields, promote interdisciplinary analysis of the legal issues affecting health care, biotechnology and bioethics, and produce scholarship that offers creative and promising solutions to some of the most vexing problems at the intersection of health, law and ethics.

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The Roy and Lila Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) advances excellence and innovation in governance and public policy through research, education, and public discussion. Its projects that have particular connections to global health concerns include the Program on Crisis Leadership, a joint venture with the HKS Taubman Center for State and Local Government, which seeks to improve society’s capacity to deal with natural disasters, infrastructure,...

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The Weatherhead Center was created to confront conditions in the current global reality where “a nation’s level of survival may depend as much on the actions of other countries as on its own.” As the largest international research center within the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, the Center sponsors a wide array of seminars, research programs, workshops, and conferences, “serving a large community of thinkers who sustain an even larger community of doers.” The Center is home to the Weatherhead...

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The Center for International Development (CID) is a University-wide center based at the Harvard Kennedy School that works to advance the understanding of development challenges and to offer viable solutions to problems of global poverty. Center programs include research programs on building state capability, evidence for policy design, entrepreneurial finance, and the Growth Lab, which explores growth strategy design and potentials for change. Since 1999 the Center has...

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The Center for Health Decision Science (CHDS) uses the theories and practice of decision science to promote informed and systematic decision making involving health-related technologies and public health practices. CHDS brings together outstanding faculty, staff and researchers from across the T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Harvard University to support its research, teaching and training programs. Faculty are committed to ensuring the real-world impact of their research by actively...

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