The Center for Global Health in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change advances innovative approaches to understand and address health as a part of the broader human condition. Using theories and methods from the social and behavioral sciences, researchers address basic assumptions about why people get sick and what should be done about it. Research projects focus on body image, food insecurity, health care workers in lower income countries and water scarcity.
American Indian Studies at Arizona State University is an academic program grounded in the experience of American Indian nations, peoples, communities and organization from an American Indian perspective.
Our program emphasizes the latest ideas and research impacting Indigenous communities across the U.S., including Alaska and Hawaii. We strive to make American Indian Studies not only important and relevant to Native nations, organizations and peoples, but also to society as a whole.
CareerWise was created as an online coach for graduate women in science and engineering. Developed , by Professors Bianca Bernstein and Jennifer Bekki, with support from the National Science Foundation, this career tool helps doctoral degree seekers build skills in communications and interpersonal relations, as well as overall resilience.
The Center for Behavior, Institutions and the Environment (CBIE) is a transdisciplinary endeavor to improve our understanding of effective governance of social-ecological systems by an increased understanding of the interactions of human behavior, institutional arrangements and the biophysical environment.
ASU's Center for Biology and Society promotes research, education and engagement related to study of the life sciences and their interconnections with society.
As a research center within a large, non-profit university, we strive to understand the ways in which the history, philosophy, ethics, policies, and laws surrounding the life sciences all intersect.
The mission of the Center for Environmental Economics and Sustainability Policy (CEESP) is to develop research in environmental and resource economics that is relevant to policy needs. Special attention is given to issues of sustainability in the context of environmental, energy, climate, and resource management.
The Center for Health Information and Research (CHIR) employs a multidisciplinary approach to research in areas of epidemiology, health care information technology and data management, health economics and workforce, and health data mining. The goal of the center is to provide actionable information regarding health care policy, quality of care, public health and the health care workforce and to develop new methodologies for storing, collecting, analyzing and disseminating health information.
The Center for Law, Science and Innovation (LSI) is an established leader in addressing the extraordinary legal and regulatory problems caused by the rapid developments in science and technology in today’s world. As the first and largest academic center focused on the intersection of law and science and technology, the Center’s mission is to use policy as an enabler of innovation for the betterment of society.
The Center for Mindfulness, Compassion and Resilience brings together Arizona State University faculty, students and research partners to examine the impacts of mindfulness across a wide range of areas, including studies of social relationships and social justice, neuroscience and aging, wellbeing and immune function.
Human capital is a core facet of STEM development and progress. The Center for Organization Research and Design (CORD) focuses on fundamental research associated with public, nonprofit and hybrid organizations and examines key dynamics necessary for building and developing a productive, diverse and stable STEM workforce. Moreover, our group examines how public policy can influence the institutions and processes responsible for shaping such dynamics.
Our core research areas are: