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.

The mission of the International Rescue Committee (IRC) is to help people whose lives and livelihoods are shattered by conflict and disaster to survive, recover and gain control of their future. The ...

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 ...

Two medical organizations are joining together to produce evidence reviews for respiratory virus vaccines, stepping into a gap they say has been created by the “collapse” of the CDC’s Advisory ...

Recognition of the need to restore degraded landscapes is accelerating at pace. The UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (the UN Decade) has triggered a global movement to rally individual action, ...

We aim to provide transparency in how Elevance Health plans address variations in clinical practices to ensure safe, high-quality, clinically appropriate, and accessible care delivery across diverse ...

NAE Perspectives offer practitioners, scholars, and policy leaders a platform to comment on developments and issues relating to engineering. Barbara Simons is retired from IBM Research and is board ...

There is general agreement on six psychotherapy-based treatment techniques for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) as the most effective, evidence-based approaches available. These treatment ...

In the human resources world, I’ve observed that many leaders use their experience and intuition as decision-making guides. There’s a time and place for relying on experience and intuition, but solely ...