Policy & Ethics

Where science meets society: regulatory decisions, research ethics, public health policy, and the debates around how scientific knowledge is applied, funded, and communicated.

As of now, the official number of COVID cases in the United States stands at roughly 27.1 million.
The goal should be to establish evidence-based regulation understandable to the public, with clear accountability.
On several occasions, I have written on the Trump Administration’s efforts to the use of scientific stu
During the U.S. border crisis, in which immigrants from Central and South America were attempting to cross the border illegally into the United States, thousands of families and children were separated during the detention process.
To answer that question, researchers reviewed the 14 different government strategies directed at obesity in the UK since 1991. Overall, each strategy was associated with a median of 35 policies.
Social media giants like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube have promised over and over again to combat the spread of fake news, particularly if it leads to harm.
I live in the Seattle area, but I spend a lot of time in Boise because of family. This has allowed me the unique opportunity to experience two completely different state government responses to the coronavirus pandemic.
It cannot be entirely coincidental that Disneyland has been designated as a COVID vaccination site because the vaccine rollout has been a