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.

Scientific evidence is key to public policy. But science does not offer a repository of neutral, ready-made evidence that may be translated into unambiguous policy prescriptions. Rather, scientific ...

As a researcher and science writer wondering like many others why evidence does not always appear to make a difference in policy, I found myself deeply engaged in Karen Bogenschneider and Tom ...

These analyses from some of the nation’s most capable diplomats are valuable. But their recommendations do not go far enough. Revitalizing U.S. foreign policy will require more than a renewed ...

Laurenz Langer works for the Africa Centre for Evidence (ACE), University of Johannesburg. ACE has received funding from South African government departments to support evidence synthesis and evidence ...

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 ...

One of the great—if largely unsung—bipartisan congressional acts of recent history was the passage in 2018 of the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act. In essence, the “Evidence Act” ...

Theresa S Betancourt and colleagues argue that implementation and systems strengthening are urgently needed to integrate mental health and psychosocial support interventions across health, education, ...

Despite some recent improvements, the academic achievement of American students remains below that of those in most industrialized nations, and the gap between African American and Hispanic students ...