Duke Public Policy Research Centers, Institutes and Programs

The Sanford School of Public Policy provides a dynamic campus hub for interdisciplinary research centers that explore vital policy questions in the field and in the classroom. Listed are centers and programs at Sanford, as well as university-wide centers in which public policy faculty are active.

Center for Documentary Studies

Center for Genome Ethics, Law and Policy

Center for Health Policy & Inequalities Research

Center on Law, Ethics and National Security

Center for Strategic Philanthropy and Civil Society

Center for the Study of Philanthropy and Voluntarism

Counterterrorism and Public Policy Fellows Program

DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy , which manages the undergraduate Policy Journalism and Media Studies Certificate.

Duke Center for Child and Family Policy

Duke Center for International Development

Duke University American Grand Strategy Program

Duke University Population Research Institute

Duke University Program on History, Public Policy and Social Change

Global Health Institute

Hart Leadership Program

Samuel and Ronnie Heyman Center for Ethics, Public Policy,
and the Professions

Kenan Institute for Ethics

Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions

Program in Public Law

Program on Civil Society (Fleishman Civil Society Fellows)

Program on Global Health and Technology Access,

Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security,

Triangle Institute for Security Studies

United States – Southern Africa Center for Leadership and Public Values

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