The Graduate School oversees and supports four research centers and an institute on the Main Campus. These are:
- The Center for Democracy and Civil Society (CDACS) -- with oversight by the Department of Government and Georgetown College, the CDACS aspires to expand and deepen theory, research, and teaching on the relationship between democratic governance and the third sector.
- Center for the Brain Basis of Cognition (CBBC) -- the CBBC promotes basic research and training at the intersection of cognition and neuroscience, with an interest in applying this research to clinical and educational contexts.
- Center for Infectious Disease (CID) -- established in 2004 to address the following issues: Promote international health through research and education; stimulate and facilitate communication between Georgetown’s infectious disease researchers and internal and external audiences; provide networking opportunities across infectious disease research laboratories; foster an environment conducive to training graduate students and fellows; solicit and create new funding opportunities for infectious disease research and training, and; strengthen connections between biomedical researchers and policy, ethics and law scholars.
- Center for Population and Health (CPH) -- established in 1999, the CPH endeavors, among other things, to strengthen and encourage research in the area of population and health at Georgetown; encourage interdisciplinary collaboration among faculty and graduate students across all disciplines on the Main Campus; and to promote a variety of service activities that contribute to the well-being of the DC community.
- The Georgetown Public Policy Institute (GPPI) -- in addition to offering graduate studies in public policy and policy management and joint degree affiliations at the M.A., Ph.D. and J.D. levels, the GPPI also conducts academic research on a variety of policy issues relating to children, education, health care, non-profit studies, democratic governance, and the policy-making process.
