Introducing Dan Friess, Center for Public Policy Research Director
Effective July 1, 2025, Dan will lead CPPR's mission to address critical policy challenges in the environment, housing, and health policy.
Center for Public Policy Research
The Center for Public Policy Research (CPPR) is a multi-disciplinary research center that balances academic research with applied work. CPPR has sponsored and promoted research on the impact of public policy on the market environment, including areas such as the environment, housing, health policy, education, public finance, and legal and regulatory policy. The regulation programming and frequent collaboration with Tulane Law led to the development of the Center on Law and the Economy. 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 health policy and education programs, funds postdoctoral scholarships for early-career scholars, provides seed grants to promote research by Tulane faculty, and sponsors collaborations with guest scholars in political economy from outside of Tulane. CPPR launched a fellowship program with the School of Science and Engineering and the Tulane School of Medicine to advance science policy ethics and communication (ASPECT) and hosts a two-day research symposium on public policy issues related to political economy. CPPR also sponsors access to restricted U.S. Census data from the Atlanta Research Data Center (ARDC) free of charge for qualified Tulane researchers.
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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