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CHILDREN,EDUCATION & FAMILYDuke Center for Child andFamily Policy

The James B. Hunt Institutefor Educational Leadershipand Policy

At the Center for Child and Family Policy, we pursue science-based solutions to important problems affecting today’s childrenand families. The Center emphasizes the bridge from researchto policy and practice through an integrated system of research,teaching, service and policy engagement. The Center was established at Duke University in 1999 underthe leadership of Kenneth A. Dodge, a leading scholar in thedevelopment and prevention of aggressive and violentbehaviors. Seth Sanders is currently serving as interim directorof the Center. Center research has grown to include an array of projects thattouch on critical child and family policy issues. Center facultyfellows include a trio of scholars who focus on the effect ofeconomic distress on child development. Other fellows studyearly childhood, the development of risky behaviors, childhoodmental illness and a wide range of education policy issuesincluding school truancy, charter schools, teacher training andeducation reform efforts.

The Hunt Institute works effortlessly in a nonpartisan way todesign strategy, shape policy, and drive educationalimprovements on the national and state levels. Using our depthand breadth of knowledge, we bring together resources andexperts from across the country, inspiring visionary leadershipand dialogue, and mobilizing strategic action to serve as acatalyst for transforming public education and securingAmerica’s future through a quality public education for all. TheHunt Institute is the only organization in the nation exclusivelydedicated to empowering governors, policymakers, and othereducational leaders in the development and implementation ofcomprehensive strategies for the transformation of publiceducation.

Director: Leslie Babinski

ETHICS ANDLEADERSHIP

The Duke Samuel DuBois Cook Center on SocialEquity is a scholarly collaborative engaged in thestudy of the causes and consequences of inequalityand in the assessment and redesign of remedies forinequality and its adverse effects. Concerned with theeconomic, political, social and cultural dimensions ofuneven and inequitable access to resources,opportunity and capabilities, Cook Center researcherstake a cross-national comparative approach to thestudy of human difference and disparity. Rangingfrom the global to the local, Cook Center scholars notonly address the overarching social problem ofgeneral inequality, but they also explore socialproblems associated with gender, race, ethnicity andreligious affiliation.

Samuel DuBois Cook Centeron Social Equity

Duke Engage

Director: William "Sandy" Darity Jr.

In the summer of 2007, Duke launched an ambitious program tochange the way its students would learn about the world, itsproblems and its potential. Today, DukeEngage provides one-time funding for approximately 410 Duke undergraduates eachsummer who wish to pursue an immersive eight-week serviceexperience by meeting a community need locally, across theU.S. or internationally. As of summer 2018, more than 4,400Duke students will have volunteered more than 1.5 million hoursthrough DukeEngage, working alongside more than 600community organizations in 42 U.S. cities and in 81 nations onsix continents. DukeEngage empowers students to address critical humanneeds by fully funding a summer of immersive service, in theprocess transforming students, advancing the University’seducational mission, and providing meaningful assistance tocommunities in the U.S. and abroad.

Director: Suzanne Shanahan

Kenan Institute for Ethics

Samuel and Ronnie HeymanCenter for Ethics, Public Policy,and the Professions

Hart Leadership ProgramIn the Hart Leadership program, we are interested in strong,worthy purposes that have both a “me” and a “we” dimension.Our mission is to help students discover the power ofleadership for public life. We encourage them to do this byexploring their own aspirations and ambitions and how theycan be connected to our common life. When students engagein this practice, they begin to ask bigger questions, discoverbolder dreams, and form deeper interests in building thrivingcommunities, institutions, and societies.Students in HLP learn that leadership and formal authority arenot the same thing. Leadership is not handed over with apromotion or a title; it is a demanding art that requiresattention, courage and experimentation. It involves more than atool kit of skills. Leadership requires knowing one’s strengthsand weaknesses, understanding complexity, asking the toughquestions, and helping people deal with differences.

Through a major gift given to the Terry Sanford Institute of PublicPolicy from the late Samuel Heyman and his wife, Ronnie, in 1991,the Samuel and Ronnie Heyman Center for Ethics, Public Policyand the Professions was established on December 4, 1994. TheHeyman Center for Ethics focuses its teaching and researchactivities on ethical issues in public policy decisions, in campaignsfor political office, in governmental entities, in nonprofitorganizations and in charitable foundations. The Center sponsorssymposia, speakers and conferences. All of the activities of theCenter are carried out in memory of Mr. Samuel Heyman and inhonor of Mrs. Ronnie Heyman, long-time friends to the SanfordSchool of Public Policy and the parents of Lazarus SamuelHeyman T ’94 and Elizabeth Heyman Winter T ’03.

Established in 1995 and now one of the country’s leading ethicscenters, the Kenan Institute is Duke University’s central node foranalysis, debate, and engagement on ethical issues both oncampus and in communities worldwide. A vibrant community offaculty, students, staff, alumni, and community stakeholders, theInstitute seeks to meld theory and practice, scholarship andaction to address a range of normative questions about right,wrong, about what is fair and just, about how we live as well ashow we should and can live. The Kenan Institute for Ethicscurrently features work in six areas: environmental justice,global migration, human rights, regulation, moral attitudes anddecision-making, and religions and public life. The Institute isalso home to a wide range of innovative curricular and co-curricular student programs and an incubator for new facultyresearch in ethics. We are a national leader in the integration ofresearch, pedagogy, and practice and in the development ofexperiential models of teaching and learning.

ENVIRONMENT& ENERGYNicholas Institute forEnvironmental Policy Solutions

Duke Energy Initative

The Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions atDuke University improves environmental policymakingworldwide through objective, fact-based research to confront theclimate crisis, clarify the economics of limiting carbon pollution,harness emerging environmental markets, put the value ofnature's benefits on the balance sheet, develop adaptive watermanagement approaches, and identify other strategies to attaincommunity resilience. The Nicholas Institute is part of Duke University and its widercommunity of world-class scholars. This unique resource allowsthe Nicholas Institute's team of economists, scientists, lawyersand policy experts to not only deliver timely, credible analyses toa wide variety of decision makers, but also to convene thesedecision makers to reach a shared understanding regarding thiscentury's most pressing environmental problems.

The Duke University Energy Initiative is a university-wideinterdisciplinary collaboration focused on advancing anaccessible, affordable, reliable, and clean energy system.The Initiative reaches across business, engineering,environment, law, policy, and the arts and sciences to educatetomorrow’s energy innovators, develop new solutions throughresearch, and improve energy decisions by engaging businessand government leaders. Creating energy solutions with the potential for real impactentails navigating a complex, global energy system, thenbringing ideas into practice. It requires seeing the whole energypicture, not just the parts, and performing innovative research toincrease understanding and open new possibilities. We seek toincrease understanding and develop solutions along three majorpathways: (1) Innovative energy technologies, systems andscience; (2) Effective, efficient markets and finance mechanismsfor energy and energy technologies, and (3) Creative, pragmaticenergy and environmental policies and practices.

Director: Timothy Profeta

FOOD ANDHEALTHWorld Food Policy Center

Behavioral Economics andHealth Food ChoiceResearch (BECR Center)

Director: Kelly Brownell

Director: Peter Ubel

Duke University’s World Food Policy Center (WFPC), locatedin the Sanford School of Public Policy, develops coordinatedand inclusive food policy and practice. Our approach bridgeskey areas of the food system to improve human wellbeing,planetary health, and equity. At the heart of this work, we learnfrom and connect unique voices—including people mostaffected by food system challenges. This center plays a critical role in catalyzing innovative thinkingand coordinated action that is needed to change policy andpractice. Our process is to listen and learn, innovate anddisrupt, and thereby create impact. We do this by: (1) bridgingopportunities in knowledge, practice, policy and stakeholderengagement (2)strategically harnessing research to createimpact by rapidly piloting policy solutions, and engagingchange agents; (3) creating best bet recommendations forpolicy and practice through rigorous assessment, evaluationand metrics; and (4) driving equity in food systems by bringingpeople back into policy, and disrupting structural drivers ofinequality.

Collectively, this Duke-UNC partnership provides a blend ofexpertise in field experiments, big data anlytic skills anddataset access, with "boots on the ground" applied publichealth research capabilities and community connections. Anumber of different units at Duke present particularly naturalconnections for the investigators, as well as mentoringopportunities for the post-doctoral researchers, recipients ofCenter grants and fellowships, graduate and undergraduatestudents involved with the center. For example, the DukeInstitute for Brain Sciences is a premier institution for researchand training in the neurological foundations of decision-making. Duke is particularly strong in the medical treatment ofobesity and obesity related health conditions, from the DukeChildhood Obesity Clinic to the Duke Diet and Fitness Center.The Duke Center for the Study of Adolescent Risk andResilience is a National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)funded research center, which focuses on self-regulation andaddictive behaviors including eating. The Duke Global HealthInstitute focuses on reducing health disparities includingcomplex health problems including obesity.

Duke-Margolis Center forHealth Policy

Duke Global Health Institute

Center for Health Policy &Inequalities Research

Director: Mark McClellan

Director: Gavin Yamey

Director: Kathryn Whetten

The Center for Health Policy & Inequalities Research(CHPIR) is an instigator and facilitator of a broad range ofhealth policy and health disparities research that addresspolicy relevant issues. Activities focus on population basedhealth research, health systems research, and interventionand evaluation research. The Center fosters aninterdisciplinary collaborative investigative environment thatalso seeks to educate Duke students by providing experiencesin working with our research teams and through individualmentorship. The Center is part of the Duke Global HealthInstitute (DGHI), joining them in their work to reduce healthdisparities. Together we recognize that local is global whendealing with health inequalities. So, in that spirit CHPIRenhances DGHI’s partnerships, research, and impact.

The Duke Global Health Institute, established in 2006,brings knowledge from every corner of Duke University tobear on the most important global health issues of ourtime. DGHI was established as a University-wide instituteto coordinate, support, and implement Duke’sinterdisciplinary research, education, and service activitiesrelated to global health. DGHI is committed to developingand employing new models of education and research thatengage international partners and find innovative solutionsto global health challenges.

The mission of Duke University's Robert J. Margolis,MD, Center for Health Policy is to improve health andthe value of health care through practical, innovative,and evidence-based policy solutions. Duke-Margolis catalyzes Duke University's leadingcapabilities including interdisciplinary academicresearch and capacity for education and engagement,to inform policy making and implementation for betterhealth and health care.

INTERNATIONALDuke Center forInternational Development

Duke-UNC Rotary PeaceCenter

Executive Director: Jonathan Abels

Director: Susan Carroll

Duke University PopulationResearch InstituteDirector: Angela O'Rand

At the Duke Center for International Development,our faculty, staff, and students are driven by ashared vision: development that promotes peaceand prosperity for all people. Through rigorouseducation for mid-career professionals, trainingprograms for policymakers, and engagementinformed by timely research, we are working tomake this vision a reality.

The Duke-UNC Rotary Peace Center is jointlymanaged by the Duke Center for InternationalDevelopment (DCID) and UNC’s Center for GlobalInitiatives. The Center maintains an office on eachcampus, in order to serve our students and faculty atboth locations. In addition to providing academic andcultural support to the fellows, the Center organizesadditional seminars and events throughout theacademic year.

The Duke University Population Research Institute(DUPRI) is an interdisciplinary research organizationbringing together researchers from the biological,economic, mathematical, psychological, statistical,sociological, and policy sciences at Duke.The Institute seeks to advance science in the area ofdemography and population science, as well asexpand the current boundaries of demographicinvestigation.

LAW AND MEDIACenter for Law, Economicsand Public Policy

Duke Law Program in Law& Entrepreneurship

Director: Matthew Adler

The Center for Law, Economics, and Public Policy,founded in 2012, organizes workshops, conferences,and other scholarly activities in the area of law andeconomics, with a particular focus on the intersectionbetween welfare economics and normative questionsregarding legal frameworks, institutions and doctrines. The Center is interdisciplinary, seeking to sparkscholarly conversations and collaborations on thesetopics between the Duke Law School faculty; scholarsin other schools or departments at Duke; and externalfaculty. The Center also hopes to increase studentinterest in law and economics, and to be the basis fornew seminars.

The Law and Entrepreneurship Program at DukeLaw integrates rigorous coursework, real-worldexperience, and high-level networking opportunitiesto position you to advise, create, and lead theinnovative ventures that will drive tomorrow's globaleconomy.Entrepreneurs and innovators do things differently;this program will help you develop the specializedlegal knowledge and professional skills you need inorder to counsel leaders in the innovation economy.By fusing law and business, Duke's Law andEntrepreneurship Program builds knowledge inareas that are crucial to entrepreneurial venturesand instills a deep understanding of what it meansto create and run a business.

Duke Reporters' Lab

DeWitt Wallace Center forMedia and Democracy

Program in Public Law

Director: Bill Adair

Director: Bill Adair

The Program in Public Law promotes better understanding ofour nation’s public institutions, of the Constitutional framework inwhich they function, and of the principles and laws that apply tothe work of public officials. Within the Duke Law School, theProgram sponsors conferences, workshops and informal brownbag lunches on topical public law issues, sponsors visits bypresent or past elected officials and public lawyers, and raisesthe visibility of public lawyering as an option for law students topursue at some time in their careers. To reach a broaderaudience, the Program supports, encourages and disseminatespublic law scholarship and commentary by Duke faculty andothers. The various features of the Program’s web page aredesigned to assist lawyers, legal academics, college and highschool students and the general public in gaining a betterunderstanding of public law and public institutions.

The DeWitt Wallace Center for Media & Democracy isDuke University’s hub for the study of journalism. Westudy the interaction between news media and policy; wesupport watchdog and accountability reporting in the U.S.and around the world; and we teach about the media’srole in democracy. Founded in 1973, the DeWitt WallaceCenter (DWC) is part of the Sanford School of PublicPolicy, and shares in the School’s mission of teaching,research, and policy engagement, with the goal of puttingknowledge in service to society.

The Reporters’ Lab is a center for journalismresearch in the Sanford School of Public Policyat Duke University. Our core projects focus onfact-checking, but we also do occasionalresearch about trust in the news media and othertopics. Our projects include:A guide to the world’s fact-checkers. Wemaintain a database of fact-checking sites andpublish an annual census.

NATIONAL SECURITY& FOREIGN POLICYCounterterrorism and PublicPolicy Fellows Program

Duke Program on AmericanGrand Strategy

Director: Tim Nichols

Director: Peter Feaver

There are three components to the academic program. First,Fellows will audit a minimum of five courses during theacademic year. One course per semester has been designedfor Fellows: in the fall, a course on National Security Decision-Making, and, in the spring, a course on Intelligence for NationalSecurity. Each fellow will then select three other electives(usually two in the fall and one in the spring). Fellows mayselect graduate level or upper level undergraduate courses atDuke University. Cross-registration for classes at the Universityof North Carolina at Chapel Hill will also be available. Fellowswill also participate in a two-semester research effort designedexclusively for them to explore topical areas in more depth,interact with faculty, and support the research process. Thisresearch effort culminates in a publication-quality manuscriptand a presentation to the Duke community. Finally, Fellows willenjoy special access to the rich calendar of special events,lectures by scholars and practitioners, and conferences thattake place each semester at Duke and otherneighboring universities. Whenever possible, small groupsessions will be arranged for the Fellows to interact with thesespecial visitors.

At Duke we have distinctive strengths in political scienceand public policy, including a diversity of experienceacross the partisan divide, as well as a rich tradition ofclose collaboration with military and diplomatic history. AGS is a signature program for Duke studentsinterested in national security policymaking.Grandstrategy blends the disciplines of history (whathappened and why?), political science (what underlyingpatterns and causal mechanisms are at work?), publicpolicy (how well did it work and how could it be donebetter?), and economics (how are national resourcesproduced and protected?). Students are especiallydrawn to grand strategy because it makes history morerelevant, political science more concrete, public policymore broadly contextualized, and economics moresecurity-oriented.

Triangle Center on Terrorismand Homeland Security

Triangle Institute forSecurity StudiesDirector: Peter Feaver

Director: David SchanzerThe mission of the Triangle Center on Terrorism andHomeland Security (TCTHS) is to enhance theunderstanding of terrorism and the means to combat itthrough education, research and the development ofpartnerships between universities, industry andgovernment. Founded in 2005, the TCTHS facultyconduct research, comment on current events andpolicy debates, and run executive education programs.The center sponsors multiple events each yearproviding an opportunity for students to interact withleading practitioners and scholars.

The TISS IC CAE is a consortium of UNC-Chapel Hill, DukeUniversity, North Carolina State University, and North CarolinaCentral University. Our goal is to promote understanding of theintelligence mission through the development of courses andassociated programs.The TISS IC CAE is first and foremost designed for students.Under the aegis of this program, we have developed newcourses and expanded existing degree programs. Studentsinterested in this field of study can now take advantage of a richarray of courses in intelligence and security studies available onall four campuses. At the undergraduate level, students at UNC-Chapel Hill can major in Peace, War, and Defense, with aconcentration in intelligence and security and students at NorthCarolina Central University can earn a certificate in SecurityStudies. At the graduate level, students at North Carolina StateUniversity pursuing a Masters in International Studies, canspecialize in intelligence and technology.

POLITICSPOLIS: The Center for PoliticalLeadership, Innovation andService

Center for StrategicPhilanthropy and Civil Society

Director: Mac McCorkle

Director: Joel Fleishman

Center for the Study ofPhilanthropy and VoluntarismDirector: Charles Clotfelter

PHILANTHROPY

Duke students are highly idealistic and dedicated to making the world abetter place, but many are deeply disenchanted with what they see ofpolitics today. Like many of their generation, they are understandablytempted to turn away from politics. Yet a healthy democracy depends oncitizens who are politically engaged—as voters, advocates, policy experts,organizers, journalists, teachers, and political candidates. If we are to meetthe great challenges of our time, we cannot abandon the public arena. Theimperative, therefore, is not to abandon but to fix our politics, and to inspirea new generation of political leaders and engaged citizens devoted to thatcause. POLIS has two missions: (1) To seek solutions to the problems ofcontemporary politics; (2) To prepare a new generation of political leadersand engaged citizens.

The Center for Strategic Philanthropy and Civil Society(CSPCS) researches, analyzes, and promotesphilanthropy that consistently produces high impact.CSPCS stimulates communication, collaboration, andproblem-solving around pressing issues of public policyand philanthropy. The Center was formally created in 2008at the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy (now theSanford School of Public Policy), Duke University.

Whether they are grouped together as a “sector” of the economy,classified as a mode of behavior or studied as an orientation towards life,philanthropy and voluntary organizations are important phenomena worthserious attention. The Center for the Study of Philanthropy andVoluntarism was created in 1986 to conduct scholarly research andexpand the dialogue about these pursuits. The Center’s major objectivesare: (1) To support scholarly research on issues related to philanthropyand voluntarism, (2) To stimulate the exchange of ideas and researchfindings among scholars and practitioners, and (3) To encourage thedevelopment of university courses in the area of philanthropy.

SOCIAL SCIENCEGlobal Inequality ResearchInitiative

The Social Science ResearchInstitute

Director: Jay Pearson

Director: Don TaylorSSRI brings together researchers with interests in problems thatcross the various social and behavioral sciences, includingproblems that connect with the humanities and natural sciences.We promote multidisciplinary collaboration among such scholarsas they work on important social issues that are challenging toaddress fully from within any given discipline.SSRI’s core mission is to catalyze pioneering social scienceresearch and methods and their broad application by: (1)Developing and populating a 21st century social science datainfrastructure that facilitates collaboration, empowers researchersto ask new questions, and addresses confidentiality and privacyconcerns surrounding sensitive and protected data; (2) Providingsupport across the full range of social science methods toresearchers and teams at all levels; (3) Facilitating cross-disciplinary connections between researchers interested insignificant social problems and, where appropriate, supportingstudent and external engagement in these connections; (4)Incubating new cross-disciplinary collaborations that confrontimportant social problems, and assisting in scaling suchcollaborations while connecting them, when appropriate, toexternal support.

The Global Inequality Research Initiative is aninterdisciplinary, vertically integrated research initiativethat emphasizes a judicious application of mixed methodsfrom the social sciences, both quantitative and qualitative,and the treatment of representation and identity from thehumanities. Simultaneously GIRI serves as aclearinghouse for the best available data and research ongroup-based inequality. GIRI promotes remote systematicand comprehensive exploration of complex policy-relevantaspects of group identity in five domains of significantintergroup disparity: Wealth, Employment, Education,Political participation, and Health and well-being.

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