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.

This is the second in a seven-part series examining the policing strategies that shape public safety in America, including ...

Agencies and the White House are getting into the weeds of how to put the OPEN Government Data Act into effect. Almost a year after the passage of the OPEN Government Data Act and the Foundations for ...

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” ...

It’s no surprise that inappropriate care decisions can negatively impact patients, but they also place a strain on the entire health care system. At a time when the demand for health care providers ...

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 ...

It is easy to overlook the fact that over 90% of medical treatments are not backed by strong evidence. People can find it ...

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 ...

Bommasani, Rishi, Sanjeev Arora, Jennifer Chayes, Yejin Choi, Mariano-Florentino Cuellar, Li Fei-Fei, Daniel E. Ho, Dan Jurafsky, Sanmi Koyejo, Himabindu Lakkaraju ...