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.

James Bryant Conant University Professor

Kim B. Clark Professor of Business Administration
Harvard Business School


News & Events

Beerbohm appointed director of Edmond & Lily Safra Center for Ethics
Eminent political theorist Eric Beerbohm, Professor of Government and Faculty Affiliate in the Department of Philosophy, has been appointed as

Covid Crisis Group Releases Report
JHD’s rapid response team have co-written a report with other members of the non-partisan Covid Crisis Group titled, Lessons from

New publications from the GETTING-Plurality network
JHD’s GETTING-Plurality research network, part of the Allen Lab for Democracy Renovation, has released two new white papers to coincide