Research Centers and Institutes
Penn is home to many interdisciplinary research centers and institutes that focus on world regions, global challenges and issues of interest to societies throughout the world. Faculty and research scholars associated with these centers and institutes bring their intellectual capacity and expertise to the generation of knowledge and its practical applications for human progress.
Regional Centers
- African Studies Center
- Center for Africana Studies
- Center for East Asian Studies
- Center for the Advanced Study of India
- Center for Italian Studies
- Middle East Center
- South Asia Center
Government, Politics and Law
- Annenberg Public Policy Center
- Annenberg Center for Global Communication Studies
- Christopher H. Browne Center for International Politics
- International Consortium on Higher Education, Civic Responsibility, and Democracy
- Fels Center of Government
- Institute for Law and Economics
- Solomon Asch Center for Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict
- Institute for Strategic Threat Analysis and Research
Health and Medicine
- Penn Center for AIDS Research
- Center for Bioethics
- Institute for Environmental Medicine
- Center for Health Disparities Research
- Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research
- Institute for Medicine and Engineering
- WHO Collaborating Center for Oral Infectious Diseases
- Institute for Environmental Studies
Economics and Business
- Penn Institute for Economic Research
- Center for Health Management and Economics
- Center for International Comparisons
- Penn Lauder Center for International Business, Education and Research (CIBER)
- Center for Leadership and Change Management
- Leonard Davis Institute for Health Economics
- Population Studies Center
- Snider Entrepreneurship Research Center
- Weiss Center for International Financial Research
- Zicklin Center for Business Ethics Research
Language and Society
- Alice Paul Center for Women and Gender Studies
- The Campbell Collaboration
- Center for Folklore and Ethnography
- Center for Advanced Judaic Studies
- Penn Language Center
- Linguistic Data Consortium
- lnternational Literacy Institute
- Penn Institute for Urban Research