Faculty Labs are multidisciplinary research labs led by SNF Agora core scholars that bring together scholars, students, and practitioners to explore key questions related to democracy, civic engagement, and social change through collaborative research, teaching, and public programming. These labs connect academic scholarship to real-world impact.

Featured Faculty Labs

  • A multidisciplinary initiative dedicated to reinvigorating debates about politics, economics, and culture and identifying new possibilities for change.

  • A global initiative tackling the challenges of modern disinformation and polarization that threaten democratic societies.

  • Confronting the enduring legacy of racism and discrimination in the university's own past.

  • Working to ensure that participation is possible, probable, and powerful for all.

Leading the Conversation

SNF Agora Professor of Health Policy and Management
Adam Seth Levine, SNF Agora Professor of Health Policy and Management at Johns Hopkins University, recently gave the Annual Lecture of the Institute for Health and Social Policy, part of the Bloomberg School of Public Health. The lecture, entitled Collaborate Now! How Expertise Becomes Useful in Civic Life, highlighted his research into the transformative power of collaboration in making expertise actionable and demonstrated how these efforts align with the goals of both public health and democracy.
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