The Core

The Center's Core, under joint leadership from Brandeis and Harvard, aims to enhance synergy among the components, foster innovation, and promote productive interaction among Center staff and students. Each organization brings a unique set of substantive skills that strengthen the collective expertise offered by the Center. The combined expertise contributes to the necessary structure required to tackle sophisticated issues and to conduct coordinated and comprehensive research on managed care and substance abuse treatment.

Under the direction of the Co-Directors and Deputy Directors, an Internal Advisory Board (IAB) provides the main focus of coordination within the Center. Complementing the function of the IAB, an External Advisory Board (EAB), composed of experts in a range of fields, provides input to the Center and assists in the dissemination of its findings. The IAB works to ensure the quality of the Center's research and training activities; coordinate the projects to maximize the potential for sharing of methods, analyses, and results; encourage synergy among the Center's members; and ensure that members of the Center will be informed of each other's work on a substantive and ongoing basis. The structure of the Center's Core is designed to emphasize the recognition that the strength of the Center lies both in its individual projects and in the synergy among the Center's members.