Governance

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Jamaji C. Nwanaji-Enwerem: Relating Healthcare Practices to Public Policy

| Spring 2020

In middle school, Jamaji Nwanaji-Enwerem knew he wanted a career in medicine. He had a deep love for science, and even then wanted to find ways to combine science and human health. Family ties took him to Nigeria, where he saw severe healthcare disparities that had a lasting impact on him. He wants to see a world where people receive the healthcare they need, not just what they can afford.

- Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School

Spotlight on Debora Plunkett: Protecting America's Most Important Information

| Fall/Winter 2017-2018

For Debora Plunkett, joining forces with the Belfer Center’s Defending Digital Democracy project was much more than an academic opportunity—it was her duty as an American. Russian meddling in the 2016 election “hit at the core of me as an American,” she said. “I am offended that anyone would try to limit, distort, or alter the rights of Americans to vote, and so I’m interested in helping to develop and deliver security guidance that will help campaigns better understand and respond to current-day cyber threaats and vulnerabilities.”

- Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School

Defending Digital Democracy Project Aims to Protect Election Integrity

| Fall/Winter 2017-2018

In July, the Belfer Center launched a new, bipartisan initiative called the Defending Digital Democracy Project  (D3P). Led by Belfer Center Co-Director Eric Rosenbach, along with the former campaign managers for Hillary Clinton and Mitt Romney, the project aims to identify and recommend strategies, tools, and technology to protect democratic processes and systems from cyber and information attacks.

- Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center Newsletter

Secretary of Defense Carter Returns Home

| Spring 2016

Contribution and consequence. That’s how Secretary of Defense Ashton B. Carter described the “magic” of Harvard Kennedy School’s spirit of public service during a JFK Jr. Forum here in December. Carter, a former Kennedy School professor and Belfer Center director, joined Graham Allison and a forum full of students, faculty, and service members for a homecoming conversation on topics ranging from ISIS and the South China Sea to cyber threats and innovation at the Department of Defense.

David Keith, on The Colbert Report, discusses climate engineering with a skeptical Stephen Colbert (December 2013).

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- Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center Newsletter

Spotlight: David Keith

| Summer 2015

David Keith is the Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics at Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Professor of Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School, housed at the Belfer Center. He has worked at the interface between climate science, energy technology, and public policy for 20 years and has received numerous honors for his work, including the MIT prize for excellence in experimental physics and TIME magazine’s selection as one of its Heroes of the Environment.

Juliette Kayyem  (center) considers a question following her presentation on counterterrorism at a Belfer Center Board of Directors lunction on counteh.

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- Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center Newsletter

Spotlight: Juliette Kayyem

| Spring 2015

Juliette Kayyem knows how to have a 100 percent safe Olympics – don’t have an Olympics. Because perfect security is not possible, Kayyem says public officials should aim instead for perfect planning.

- Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center Newsletter

Competing on a Global Scale in the 21st Century

Spring 2014

David H. Petraeus, retired four-star Army general and former director of the Central Intelligence Agency, has joined with Belfer Center Director Graham Allison in launching a project to analyze dynamics that are spurring renewed competitiveness by the United States, Canada, and Mexico. The project is called “The Coming North American Decades.”

- Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center Newsletter

American Economy and American Security: Stuck in Secular Stagnation?

Spring 2014

In a major two-part op-ed in the Financial Times in January, Larry Summers presents his judgment that in the aftermath of the Great Recession, the U.S. economy appears to be stuck in “secular stagnation.” By “secular stagnation,” he means the coincidence of sluggish output and GDP growth, less than 2% since the start of this century, employment levels below potential, and problematically low real interest rates. To escape what he foresees is likely otherwise to be a long period of very slow growth, he proposes a set of policies to spur demand: ending the trend toward reduced government spending, leveraging low interest rates to make investments building infrastructure, and boosting private spending in the energy sector. (In his New Year’s Day op-ed, “2014: Good Year for a Great War?” in National Interest, Graham Allison noted that there is another option, the one that finally rescued the U.S. from the Great Depression, but cautioned against going there.) For a recent elaboration of Summers’ argument, see http://forum.iop.harvard.edu/content/state-economy.