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 Initiative, which encourages and supports large-scale research in the realm of international affairs. Initiative projects have explored such topics as humanitarian response to the forced migration of India’s 1947 partition; carbon and air pollution control in China; international migration policy and law analysis; the diverse mechanisms of Mexico-U.S. migration; the long-term nature of poverty across Africa; military conflict as a public health problem; and the political economy of globalization. The Center also maintains an online library of published journal articles, working papers, op-eds, and editorial summaries of recent books by faculty associates.
See also: Health & Public Policy