Leadership for several University and multi-University research centers and groups is provided by Economics faculty members:
The Center for European Studies (Neil De Marchi, Co-Director) is a National Resource Center on Western Europe and one of ten official European Union Centers in the U.S. The Center's goal is to ensure that faculty, students, and the larger community have access to the finest scholarship and the most current resources on modern Europe.
The Center for Health Policy, Health Inequalities Program (Kathryn Whetten, Director) specializes in interdisciplinary research, and is dedicated to contributing to evidence-based health policy decisions at every level of the health care system.
The Duke Global Health Institute (Mike Merson, Director) works to reduce health disparities in our local community and worldwide. DGHI brings together interdisciplinary teams to solve complex health problems and to train the next generation of global health scholars.
The Duke Population Research Institute - DuPRI (Seth Sanders, Director) has been created to bring together the many faculty and post-doctoral researchers at Duke who are already involved in innovative interdisciplinary population research investigations.
The Social Science Research Institute - SSRI (Phil Morgan, Director) is the interdisciplinary social science research institute of Duke University. Its core mission is to catalyze pioneering social science research and methods across the social and behavioral sciences.