Iheoma Iruka, Research Professor of Public Policy, joined PBS NC’s David Hurst alongside Candace Witherspoon (NC DHHS) and Anna Gassman-Pines (Duke’s Sanford School of Public Policy) to discuss the “childcare cliff” in North Carolina and it’s future impact on communities. … Read more
Professor of the Practice, Jeanne Bonds, co-authored a paper, “Pushing Back on the DEI Pushback: The Demographic Imperative,” with Kenan-Flagler Business School professors James H. Johnson Jr. and Allison Schlobohm, and Vice President of the Cedar Grove Institute for Sustainable … Read more
Dr. Doug MacKay, Associate Chair and Associate Professor of Public Policy, was recently quoted in an article in The Financial Times on the ethics of experiments in economics. Read the article here!
Kate Saylor has accepted a position as Assistant Professor in the Department of Bioethics and Decision Sciences at Geisinger College of Health Sciences! Kate received her PhD from UNC PLCY in 2021. Congratulations, Kate!
Cassandra Davis, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, is headed to D.C. this summer for a discussion with FEMA leaders on achieving equal outcomes for disaster victims. Dr. Davis will be joined by Drs. Simona Goldin and Evan Johnson. Davis said, … Read more
In May, the Department of Public Policy lost esteemed colleague Professor Emeritus Richard N. L. “Pete” Andrews, a faculty member in the department since 1981. A pillar of the university and leading scholar on environmental policy, Andrews embodied the interdisciplinarity … Read more
Majors in Public Policy, Political Science, Sociology, and Management & Society Sunday, May 12, 2024 from 11:00am-1:00pm Carmichael Arena For more information visit: https://publicpolicy.unc.edu/2024-commencement/
The Oxford Handbook of Research Ethics, co-edited by our very own Doug MacKay, is in print! Featuring 45 chapters by leading scholars, it offers a critical overview of the ethics of human subjects research within multiple disciplines and fields, including … Read more
Associate Professor and Director of UNC’s Data-Driven Lab Angel Hsu has been selected as one of six U.S. scientists to contribute to the upcoming IPCC (the leading governmental body on climate change science) scoping meeting for a Special Report on … Read more
Public Policy Graduate Student TK Musa, Researcher Danielle Allen, and Research Professor Iheoma Iruka have been selected as the recipients of this year’s Best Article Award for Theory into Practice for their paper, “African Centered Education (ACE): Strategies to Advance … Read more
