Well-being Centers and Global Happiness

Authors

Andrew N. Rowan, WellBeing InternationalFollow

Abstract

Several well-being and happiness research centers and policy units have been established in the last decade at major universities. For example, Harvard’s School of Public Health established the Lee Kum Sheung Center for Health and Happiness in 2016, while Oxford University launched its Wellbeing Research Centre in 2019. In Europe, the Danish Happiness Research Institute was founded in 2013 as an independent think tank. In the Netherlands, Erasmus University houses the Erasmus Happiness Economics Research Institute and the World Database of Happiness. Erasmus University established the first chair in Social Conditions for Human Happiness in 2000. We should also call attention to the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University. While it does not have “happiness” or well-being” in its title, its director, Dr. Jeffrey Sachs, is a founding editor of the World Happiness Report and has played an important role in developing global well-being thinking.

Recommended Citation

Rowan, Andrew N. (2021) "Well-being Centers and Global Happiness," WellBeing News: Vol. 3: Iss. 11, Article 3.
Available at: https://www.wellbeingintlstudiesrepository.org/wbn/vol3/iss11/3