Who doesn’t believe evidence should guide our decisions? Basing care and policy on evidence seems the best approach intuitively but why then is it so difficult to accomplish? A commentary in Public ...

Austin skyline. The city's “Reimagining Public Safety” project used evidence-based policymaking to inform the city's budget decisions and to shape public safety policies starting in 2020.

Amid shrinking budgets, multiplying federal and state requirements for school improvement, and rapidly changing educational technology, it’s critical for education leaders to identify whether a given ...

A lot of debate exists around whether the federal government’s main food assistance program for poor Americans – the Supplemental Assistance Nutrition Program (SNAP) – should restrict certain items ...

Results for America today released the 2023 Invest in What Works State Standard of Excellence highlighting state data use at an event co-hosted with the National Governors Association. Last year, ...

We draw on an existing framework (the Population, Intervention, Environment, Transfer-T process model) for assessing transferability of interventions between distinct settings and apply the model to ...

Local and personal factors, such as neighborhood, race, gender, and age, significantly influence our mental health status. Between 2000 and 2020, for example, rural communities experienced a 46 ...

NAE Perspectives offer practitioners, scholars, and policy leaders a platform to comment on developments and issues relating to engineering. Barbara Simons is retired from IBM Research and is board ...