Center for the Study of International Medical Policies and Practices (CSIMPP) provides a medical policy focus for the School of Public Policy (SPP) and facilitates interdisciplinary and international research and training activities within and outside George Mason University. The Center specializes in evidence based international  public health policies and medical practices. The Center has working relationships with the International Society of Microbial Resistance, the U.S. Medicine Institute for Health Studies, World Medical Association, and the American Astronautical Society. Additional research partners include the Institute of Space Medical Engineering of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.

CSIMPP has created a learning environment for graduate students in SPP, the George Mason biodefense program, College of Health and Human Services and other organizations through its Global Medical and Health Policy certificate and concentration programs. In the fall of 2009 the CSIMPP was selected as one of the 3 World Medical Association Collaborating Centers, for a period of three years, in the area of medical/health policy .

Areas of Research

• Evidence based medical policy formulation and translational health policy research
• GIS inputs into the health and medical policy formulation
• Modeling Health and Medical Policy processes
• Priority setting for scarce resource allocation for international health and medical programs
• Addressing emerging and reemerging diseases: policy and practices
• Medical disaster preparedness and continuity of operations
• Ethical policy formulation for the practice of medicine in extreme environments