Evidence-based policy (EBP) is an idea in public policy proposing that policy decisions should be based on, or informed by, rigorously established objective evidence. The implied contrast here is with ...

G. Reid Lyon, a research psychologist and the chief of the Child Development and Behavior Branch within the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, takes your questions on reading ...

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 ...

The San Diego County Board of Supervisors Tuesday unanimously approved a plan, along with a new office, that proponents say will prioritize evidence and data in decision-making, as a way to ensure ...

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 ...

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” ...

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 ...

Statistical uncertainty in data—or random error in a measurement—particularly when it is used to inform funding and policies, can lead to a variety of issues ...

The recent firing of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advisory body on immunisation policy, allegedly because of unmanaged conflicts of interest, has again raised the question of what ...

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, ...

Clinical practice in the United States is marked by significant variation, leading in some cases to suboptimal quality of care and poor health outcomes. Despite the proliferation of clinical practice ...