CPPR Funding Opportunities for Tulane Researchers
The Murphy Institute is pleased to provide funding opportunities that advance scholarship in political economy. These resources provide opportunities for intellectual interaction and development within the Tulane community—from seeding new research and facilitating collaborations with external scholars to supporting dissertation research for PhD candidates—and are open to faculty and researchers from all schools and departments across Tulane.
Center for Public Policy Research
The Center for Public Policy Research (CPPR) promotes multidisciplinary research on the impacts of public policy on the market environment across topics including health, education, science, housing, public finance, and the environment. Collaboration with Tulane Law on legal and regulatory frameworks in public policy led to the development of the Center for Law and the Economy in 2021. CPPR has expanded this collaborative focus through new partnerships with the Schools of Business, Architecture, Public Health & Tropical Medicine, Science & Engineering, and Medicine.
CPPR currently houses longstanding programs in Health and Education Policies, and a new Science Policy Pillar, launched in 2026, focused on the science-policy interface. The Center also supports graduate scholarship in political economy and public policy through Dissertation Fellowships and a fellowship program with the School of Science and Engineering (SSE) and the Tulane School of Medicine (SOM) that advances science policy ethics and communication.
To further promote multidisciplinary research, CPPR hosts a Postdoctoral Scholars Program for early-career scholars, provides seed funding to promote research by Tulane faculty, and sponsors collaborations in political economy with visiting scholars through its Guest Scholars Program. CPPR also funds Tulane's access to restricted economic, demographic, and public health data from the U.S. Census Bureau and other agencies through a partnership with the Atlanta Research Data Center (ARDC).
Atlanta Research Data Center
The Murphy Institute invites Tulane researchers to access restricted U.S. Census data free of charge from the Atlanta Research Data Center (ARDC). In partnership with the Center for Public Policy Research, Tulane has joined with the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and several southern universities to provide access to confidential, otherwise unavailable data from the U.S. Census Bureau, the National Center for Health Statistics, the Social Security Administration and other federal agencies.
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