Within the context of our ever-changing and global world, the USC Price School of Public Policy is launching a newly-revised professional doctorate degree program more fully attuned to practitioners actively seeking to enhance interdisciplinary knowledge and research skills for a practice-based approach to creative and innovative problem-solving in the professional domain. The DPPD program positions mid-range and executive leaders already in public, private, and non-profit sectors within policy, planning, or development fields to become academic practitioners, bridging theory with practice to implement knowledge of an applied nature for improvement of practice and policy reform.