The COVID-19 pandemic has brought opportunities for rapid innovation and creativity, as healthcare professionals seek ways to maintain high levels of care for patients and their families. But urgency, ...

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.

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” ...

In the United States today, a person’s ability to live a healthy life is dramatically affected by where he or she lives. Someone’s subway stop or neighborhood block can mean the difference between ...

What do the terms “evidence-based,” “fetus,” and “transgender” have in common? They’re on a list of seven words banned by the current Presidential Administration from the Center of Disease Control’s ...

This essay appears in print in Thinking in a Pandemic. COVID-19’s impact has been swift, widespread, and devastating. Never have so many clinicians devoted themselves so resolutely, at significant ...