Research Centers, Projects and Organizations

 

• The Center for Public and Nonprofit Leadership provides advanced education and training for emerging and current leaders alike to address public issues and community needs.
• The Center for Research on Children in the United States (CROCUS) offers an unusual educational program to students seeking careers at the intersection of developmental science and public policy by combining training in public policy analysis with coursework in developmental psychology.
• The Health Policy Institute is a multi-disciplinary group of faculty and staff dedicated to conducting research on key issues in health policy and health services research.
• The Center for Juvenile Justice Reform and Systems Integration supports scholarship and discourse on issues relating to juvenile justice reform and sponsors programs and symposia for government leaders involved in juvenile justice policy and practice.
• The Government Affairs Institute (GAI) has been conducting courses on Capitol Hill since 1965, providing education and training about congressional processes, organization, and practices, and about selected legislative policy issues.
• The School Choice Demonstration Project is an educational research project based at GPPI.  The national team of researchers, institutional research partners, and staff of the SCDP are devoted to the rigorous and unbiased evaluation of school choice programs and other school improvement efforts across the country.
• The Georgetown Public Policy Institute Dialogue Series - GPPI is partnering with Accenture’s Institute for Public Service Value to develop a series of breakfast workshops for public managers to discuss the managerial, technical, and leadership challenges of implementing large-scale policy and management change in a dynamic and complex political environment.
• The Retirement Security Project is dedicated to promoting common sense solutions to improve the retirement income prospects of millions of American workers and is supported by the Pew Charitable Trusts in partnership with the Georgetown Public Policy Institute and the Brookings Institution.