Past Grants

Ellen Carlin will assess the strengths and weaknesses of the U.S. and global systems to prevent and respond to a pandemic in a globalized world. She will lead a team to undertake a scoping exercise of the pandemic preparedness and response system and identify gaps in capabilities as well as stakeholders who could be mobilized to address those shortcomings. The project’s findings will be presented in a report and policy briefings.

Ralph Cossa and Brad Glosserman will edit and publish Comparative Connections, an electronic journal that tracks developments in more than a dozen bilateral relations across East Asia.

Thomas Toch will direct the research and publications program of FutureEd, an internet-based publication designed to serve as an intermediary between the education research and policy communities. FutureEd will provide periodic summaries of new research on a wide range of education policy topics and commission reports from leading scholars on a variety of interventions such as the District of Columbia’s strategy to increase teacher quality and Indiana’s statewide voucher program. The project’s findings will appear in a series of short research summaries, in-depth reports, and op-ed and magazine articles.

Kim Rueben will lead an effort to improve the analytical capacity of state policy officials to make choices on tax and spending priorities and to optimize their tax systems to support growth and other policy goals. She will develop a series of fiscal forecasting tools that will allow public officials, analysts, journalists, and others to assess how changes in tax and spending policies will affect the future finances of state governments. The project will result in a series of web-based tools as well as a series of reports and policy briefs.