An inflection point.
The institutions running today’s world were built for a different one. The problem isn’t a shortage of good policy ideas. It’s that the systems meant to deliver them too often fail—and the gap between what government promises and what it produces keeps widening.
Johns Hopkins launched this school to close that gap. The school draws on the university’s research tradition, applied over 150 years to medicine, engineering, and public health—now turned to governing. Faculty and researchers bring that tradition inside government systems, shaping evidence into policy and policy into results. Students work beside them, trained to understand the challenge, and prepared to fix it.
Johns Hopkins launched this school to close that gap. The school draws on the university’s research tradition, applied over 150 years to medicine, engineering, and public health—now turned to governing. Faculty and researchers bring that tradition inside government systems, shaping evidence into policy and policy into results. Students work beside them, trained to understand the challenge, and prepared to fix it.
“This new school will draw on our university’s existing strengths and emerging areas of expertise to offer a different approach to the work of government and policy, one that can help rebuild confidence in our institutions and advance new and needed approaches for more effective government.”
-Ron Daniels
President of johns Hopkins university
WHERE WE BEGIN
Working to reimagine and build effective governing institutions that solve public problems.
THE HOPKINS STANDARD
Grounded in rigor, innovation, and creativity.
Everything we do is grounded in the rigor, innovation, and creativity that defines Johns Hopkins University. Hopkins has spent 150 years turning evidence into results—from space exploration to life-saving treatments to data that shapes global decision-making. This school brings that same standard to governing institutions.
Hopkins built this school from scratch because this moment requires ambition and imagination. Because good policy means nothing without effective delivery, a new curriculum integrates AI, real-world practice, and a focus on results. Every course, faculty hire, and research agenda was built for the demands of governing today and beyond.
Hopkins built this school from scratch because this moment requires ambition and imagination. Because good policy means nothing without effective delivery, a new curriculum integrates AI, real-world practice, and a focus on results. Every course, faculty hire, and research agenda was built for the demands of governing today and beyond.
INTELLECTUAL PLURALISM
Ideas sharpened by engagement.
The hardest governance problems resist any single ideology or approach.
The School of Government and Policy brings together diverse disciplines, ideologies, and worldviews in the classroom, in its research, and in the partnerships it builds. Economists alongside philosophers. Liberals alongside conservatives. Scholars alongside practitioners.
Graduates leave equipped to test assumptions and build cross-ideological coalitions. This commitment reflects Johns Hopkins’ conviction that genuine dialogue means engaging ideas that challenge us, not just the ones that confirm what we already believe.
The School of Government and Policy brings together diverse disciplines, ideologies, and worldviews in the classroom, in its research, and in the partnerships it builds. Economists alongside philosophers. Liberals alongside conservatives. Scholars alongside practitioners.
Graduates leave equipped to test assumptions and build cross-ideological coalitions. This commitment reflects Johns Hopkins’ conviction that genuine dialogue means engaging ideas that challenge us, not just the ones that confirm what we already believe.
IMPACT THROUGH PARTNERSHIP
Connecting ideas to action.
The school builds active partnerships with governments — city halls, state houses, federal agencies — working with institutions to design reforms, test solutions, and put them into practice. These partnerships extend to academic institutions, think tanks, the private sector, and organizations from across the ideological spectrum.
Our students learn by doing, working alongside world-class academic faculty and practitioners who have shaped and implemented policy.
Our students learn by doing, working alongside world-class academic faculty and practitioners who have shaped and implemented policy.
Where policy is made.
Meet our faculty
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Michael Clemens
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Gillian Hadfield
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Francesca Molinari
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Bhaven Sampat
