
Research
Research initiatives reflect the center’s interdisciplinary work
Society today faces many critical challenges to ensuring good health and high-quality health care. Such challenges involve a range of issues including:
- Equitable access to health care
- The financing and delivery of health care
- The legal and regulatory environment of health care enterprises
- The health of different segments of our society, including children, the elderly, persons with disabilities, and economically or otherwise disadvantaged members of our community
- Dilemmas in bioethics
- Conflict resolution and patient safety
- Biotechnology and scientific research
- Environmental and public health
- International health and human rights
The center encourages research and scholarship that address all of these important 21st-century challenges