Clear accessible policy guidance.

Committed to wellbeing for all.

Our mission is to strengthen justice, health, and democracy in all communities by forging partnerships among researchers, policymakers, and stakeholders to deliver ethics-based, impactful, and timely solutions to urgent public problems.

Idea

All JHD projects start with a Strategic Impact Idea. These ideas for ethically grounded approaches to urgent public problems can come from anywhere – academics, policy makers, even directly from communities.

Inquiry

The JHD partners from Harvard, Brown, and New America assemble a multidisciplinary team of researchers, practitioners, and community leaders to share insights and explore solutions.

Action

Working in close collaboration, the JHD team generates and tests policy recommendations hand-in-hand with practitioners and communities in need of solutions.

Change

JHD project teams share what they’ve learned through the dissemination of knowledge and resources, creating opportunities for broader impact in other communities looking to generate change.

A Unique Partnership

The Justice, Health & Democracy Impact Initiative is a partnership between the Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University, New America, and the Brown University School of Public Health. Born out of the necessity to rethink how policy is made and who makes it, we seek to bring the best expertise together with civic and community leaders working to bring change and empower their citizens.

"Securing material wellbeing, securing salus populi, the happiness and safety of the people, requires securing the social contract for everyone."

"Economic dignity and security is an important component to realizing the ideals of justice, health, and democracy. But to do so means that we have to think about it in a much more expansive way."

"The Justice, Health & Democracy Impact Initiative is a blueprint for translating policy into ethical action, moving from the local to the national and back."

"The structure and the nature of JHD ensures that brilliant, up-and-coming ideas and potential partnerships with the stakeholders don't just end there, but that there is actually follow-through."