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New Advisory Committee on Evidence Building Seeking Nominations
The Department of Commerce is accepting nominations for a new Advisory Committee on Data for Evidence Building, established by the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act of 2018 (see COSSAâs coverage) and in accordance with the Federal Data Strategy. Â The Committee is authorized for two years and is tasked with assisting the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in carrying out its statutorily-mandated responsibilities related to evidence-building, âevaluating and providing recommendations to the OMB Director on how to facilitate data sharing, enable data linkage, and develop privacy enhancing techniques;â and âreviewing the coordination of data sharing or availability for…
NIH to Host 2019 Behavioral and Social Sciences Research Festival
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR) is hosting the 2019 NIH Behavioral and Social Sciences Research Festival on December 6 on NIHâs main campus in Bethesda, MD. The festival brings together researchers from around NIH and will feature three plenary sessions. Chanita Hughes-Halbert from the Medical University of South Carolina will serve as a keynote presenter and Alia Crum from Stanford University will serve as a featured presenter. Registration details and more information about the festival may be found on the OBSSR website. Back to this issueâs table of contents.
December 2020 Headlines & Deep Dive on the 2021 Policy Landscape
Download slides. COSSA’s December 2020 Headlines webchat featured a deep dive discussion on the 2021 policy landscape.
November 2020 Headlines & Deep Dive on the 2020 Election
COSSA’s November 2020 Headlines webchat featured a deep dive discussion on the 2020 election with Dr. Costas Panagopoulos, Professor of Political Science at Northeastern University.
October 2020 Headlines & Deep Dive on Polling
View the slides. COSSA’s October 2020 Headlines webchat featured a deep dive discussion on polling with Aimee Vella Ripley, Research Director at The Harris Poll.
September 2020 Headlines & Deep Dive on School Reopening with Annette Anderson
View the slides. COSSA’s September 2020 Headlines webchat featured for a deep dive discussion on school reopening plans with Dr. Annette Anderson, Deputy Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Safe and Healthy Schools.
August 2020 Headlines & Deep Dive on the Psychology of COVID-19 with Stephen Reicher
View the slides. COSSA’s August 2020 Headlines featured a deep dive discussion with Dr. Stephen Reicher, Wardlaw Professor of Psychology at the University of St. Andrews and co-author of Together Apart: The Psychology of COVID-19, a free book from SAGE Publishing that “examines the psychology surrounding the current pandemic and makes recommendations for how to do [the] right thing” based on findings from social and behavioral science.
July 2020 Headlines & Deep Dive on the Societal Experts Action Network (SEAN)
View the slides. COSSA’s June 2020 Headlines webchat featured a deep dive discussion on the Societal Experts Action Network (SEAN), an initiative of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) to deploy the social sciences to answer urgent COVID-19 policy questions with Dr. Monica Feit, Deputy Executive Director of the Academies’ Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education (DBASSE).
June 2020 Headlines & Deep Dive on Police Violence with Dr. Kristin Dukes
View the slides. COSSA’s June 2020 Headlines webchat featured da deep dive discussion with Allegheny College Dean for Institutional Diversity Kristin Dukes, PhD, a social psychologist whose work has focused on police violence against racial and ethnic minorities.
May 2020 Headlines & Deep Dive Conversation with Epidemiologist Natalie Dean
View the slides. COSSA’s May 2020 Headlines webchat featured a deep dive conversation with University of Florida epidemiologist Natalie Dean on studying a pandemic. Ron Wasserstein, Executive Director of the American Statistical Association, moderated the discussion.
April 2020 Headlines & Deep Dive on Communication Strategies in an Emerging Public Health Crisis
Download the slides. COSSA’s April 2020 Headlines webchat featured a deep dive on communication strategies in an emerging public health crisis with Dr. LaKesha Anderson, Director of Academic and Professional Affairs at the National Communication Association, and Dr. Christy Ledford, Associate Professor of Family Medicine at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences.
March 2020 Headlines & Deep Dive with OSTP’s Lisa Nichols
View the slides. COSSA’s March 2020’s Headlines webchat featured a deep dive discussion with Dr. Lisa Nichols, Assistant Director for Academic Engagement within the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), who discussed some of OSTP’s current activities, including its recent request for information on open access and data sharing policies.
February 2020 Headlines & Deep Dive on the Trump Administrationâs FY 2021 Budget Request
View the slides. COSSA’s February 2020 Headlines webchat featured a deep dive discussion on with COSSA staff on the Trump Administration’s budget request for fiscal year (FY) 2021, scheduled to be released on February 10.
January 2020 Headlines: 2019 Policy Wrap Up & Look Ahead
View the slides. COSSA’s January 2020 Headlines webchat recapped down the most important social and behavioral science news from the past month, including how social science fared in the final fiscal year (FY) 2020 spending agreement, Trump’s new nominee to lead the National Science Foundation, and the launch of a pilot single-application portal for accessing restricted federal statistics.
Senate Science Subcommittee Holds Hearing on âResearch and Innovation: Ensuring America’s Economic and Strategic Leadershipâ
On October 22, the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Subcommittee on Science, Oceans, Fisheries, and Weather held a hearing titled âResearch and Innovation: Ensuring America’s Economic and Strategic Leadershipâ to discuss the significance that research and innovation have in ensuring U.S. leadership in the global economy. The witnesses were Dr. Rebecca Blank, Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison; Dr. Sethuraman Panchanathan, Executive Vice President of Arizona State University Knowledge Enterprise; Dr. David Shaw, Provost and Executive Vice President of Mississippi State University; and Dr. Diane Souvaine, Chair of the National Science Board. Subcommittee Chair Cory Gardner (R-CO) stressed the need…
Senate Continues to Debate Spending Bills as CR End Looms
The federal government is currently operating under a continuing resolution (CR), a stopgap measure that has frozen funding for federal agencies at FY 2019 levels, which is set to expire on November 21. While the House had passed 10 of the 12 appropriations bills through the chamber before the summer recess, the Senate is beginning to make progress as well. It too has passed 10 of the 12 bills out of committee and is currently debating a package of four bills on the Senate floor. While the Senate is certainly making up for lost time, there have been reports that…
OSTP Committee Releases Roadmap on Stemming the Opioid Crisis
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policyâs (OSTP) Fast Track Action Committee on Health Science and Technology Response to the Opioid Crisis (Opioid FTAC), established in late 2017, has released a roadmap for health research and development to support the Administrationâs opioid response. A draft of the report was released for public comment in late 2018. The final report, âHealth Research & Development to Stem the Opioid Crisis: A National Roadmap,â identifies knowledge gaps as well as opportunities to improve coordination to better address the opioid epidemic. It covers seven major areas of research, including several with particular…
National Academy of Medicine Launches Healthy Longevity Global Competition
The National Academy of Medicine, with collaboration from the National Institute on Aging at the National Institutes of Health and several other global research organizations, has launched the Healthy Longevity Global Competition. This international competition seeks for researchers in the social sciences and other fields to submit research ideas aiming to extend the healthy human lifespan. The other participating global organizations are the Academia Sinica of Taiwan, the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, EIT Health, the Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development, the Ministry of Health and National Research Foundation of Singapore, and UK Research and Innovation. The competition…
COSSA Washington Update, Volume 38 Issue 20
Featured News Nita Lowey, House Appropriations Chair, Announces Retirement COSSA in Action Advocacy Day Hotel Block Opens Federal Agency & Administration News OBSSR Seeks Nominations for Matilda White Riley Keynote Nomination Opportunities Funding Opportunities Community News & Reports Jennifer Eberhardt Delivers 2019 Henry and Bryna David Lecture Fellowships & Professional Development COSSA Member Spotlight Fellowships & Professional Development Events Calendar