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