October 11, 2022
How’s the stock market doing? Any investment tips? These are questions economists face and fend off all the time. But most don’t study financial matters like these. Most economists are trying to figure out how people change their actions in response to changing circumstances or changing policies.
March 17, 2022
…in the Biden Administration’s Health Equity Leaders Roundtable Series A student at UC San Diego School of Medicine and Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science has been invited by the Biden administration to participate in an exclusive group of experts and leaders in the fields of…
September 13, 2017
…pressing challenges, from public health to agriculture. “It is my privilege to dedicate this building in recognition of the Tata Trusts’ leadership and collaboration with UC San Diego, and the Tata family’s pioneering philanthropy and singular impact to bring about societal change,” said UC San Diego Chancellor Pradeep K. Khosla.…
August 4, 2015
The School of Global Policy and Strategy (GPS) at the University of California, San Diego has expanded its roster of globally renowned degree programs with the launch of a new Master of Public Policy.
February 22, 2016
As countries grapple with the practical realities of the Paris Climate Change, they must also recognize that pollution has many distinct effects. For there is more to climate change than higher temperatures, say UC San Diego scientists David G. Victor and Veerabhadran Ramanathan in the newly published essay “The Next…
November 7, 2023
A UC San Diego Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science study reveals that online shopping for tobacco products increased the months following the California flavored tobacco ban and identified potential loopholes in tobacco control policies on e-commerce sales.
June 9, 2016
…criminal problem. It’s a health problem.” From left, Richard Branson and Steffanie Strathdee Branson, who has become a major voice in the global drug policy debate, visited UC San Diego last week to participate in a panel discussion on global drug decriminalization and Tijuana’s HIV/AIDS epidemic, which is fueled in…
November 17, 2016
…field—running experiments and testing policies to improve the lives of people in developing economies such as India’s. “The best economist,” he says, quoting a recent Financial Times headline, “is one with dirty shoes.” Muralidharan joined UC San Diego’s Department of Economics in 2008, after earning his Ph.D. at Harvard University.…
September 1, 2017
School of Global Policy and Strategy Announces New Director for Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies Photo by Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego Publications Building on its position as an internationally recognized expert on the Americas, the UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy has appointed Rafael Fernandez de Castro as…
February 2, 2018
The War on Drugs has been ongoing for several decades, yet its failure can be felt on both sides of the U.S.-Mexican border. In the last sixteen years, the opioid epidemic has claimed close to 125,000 lives in the U.S., whereas in Mexico the war on drugs has produced an…
