Krauss To Direct IU Public Policy Institute
Indiana University's School of Public and Environmental Affairs today announced it has established the Indiana University Public Policy Institute. John L. Krauss, an IU School of Public and Environmental Affairs faculty member at IUPUI and former Indianapolis deputy mayor, will direct the Institute.
Located near the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis campus, the new Institute will serve as an umbrella organization for research centers affiliated with the IU School of Public and Environmental Affairs, including:
The Center for Urban Policy and the Environment
The Center for Health Policy
The newly formed Center for Criminal Justice Research.
The directors of the centers are also faculty at IUPUI. Krauss will continue to direct the Center for Urban Policy and the Environment; Eric R. Wright is the director for the Center for Health Policy. Wright, who also serves as a professor in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs and associate director of the Indiana Consortium for Mental Health Services Research. He holds adjunct appointments in the Department of Public Health, the IU School of Medicine, and in the Department of Sociology, IU School of Liberal Arts. The Center for Criminal Justice Research is directed by Samuel Nunn. who has served on the faculty of the School of Public and Environmental Affairs since 1993.
It also will support the Office of International Community Development and the Indiana Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations.
Building on the expertise of faculty members at the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Bloomington, IUPUI and throughout the state, the Institute's mission is to make it easier for leaders in business, government, academia, philanthropy and nonprofit organizations to address the challenges communities face every day.
Here's a brief overview on each of the three Centers included in the new Institute and their directors. More information is also available via the Institute's new Web site: www.policyinstitute.iu.edu.
The Center for Urban Policy and the Environment works with state and local governments and their associations, neighborhood and community organizations, community leaders, and business and civic organizations to identify issues, analyze options, and develop the capacity to respond to challenges. The Center provides nonpartisan, non-ideological, actionable research through faculty and staff with expertise in program evaluation, policy analysis, facilitation, and planning. Specific areas of expertise include:
Economic development
Gaming
Housing and community development
Land use and environment
Nonprofits and voluntarism
Public finance
Quality of life
State and local government
The Center for Health Policy collaborates with state and local government, as well as public and private health care organizations in health policy and program development, to conduct high-quality program evaluation and applied research on non-medical health policy issues. The Center's professionals serve as a bridge between academic health researchers and state and local government, as well as health care organizations and community leaders. Specific areas of expertise include:
Health care for vulnerable populations
Health care reform
HIV/AIDS
Mental illness and mental health services
Obesity
Substance abuse prevention and treatment
The Center for Criminal Justice Research works with public safety agencies and social services organizations to provide impartial applied research on criminal justice and public safety issues. The Center provides analysis, evaluation, and assistance to criminal justice agencies; and community information and education on public safety questions. Specific areas of expertise include:
Crime prevention/causes of crime
Criminal justice systems
Drugs, alcohol, and crime
Law enforcement/policing
Public safety
Traffic safety
Violence and victimization
Youth
Collectively, the Indiana University Public Policy Institute, its three Centers and its team of experts from the IU School of Public and Environmental Affairs statewide will deliver research, service and consulting on the vital issues facing policy leaders today.
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