Women and Public Policy Program

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 rights and sexual violence. The program supports graduate courses, summer internship experiences, and executive training. Its “Gender Action Portal” provides online scientific evidence—based on experiments in the field and in the laboratory—on the impact of policies, strategies, and organizational practices aimed at closing gender gaps in the areas of economic opportunity, politics, health, and education, to help translate research into action and take successful interventions to scale.