The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, White House Office of Management and Budget and Penn State’s Evidence-to-Impact Collaborative will co-host the final Evidence Forum of the Biden-Harris Administration’s "Year of Evidence for Action" on Feb. 22 at the White House, which will include remarks from Penn State President Neeli Bendapudi on the contributions of higher education to connecting research and scientific evidence with policymakers and government agencies.
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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. In a new study, Penn State researchers demonstrated that facilitating researcher-policymaker interactions in rapid response processes can influence both how legislators think about policy issues and how they draft legislation.
Penn State professors Max Crowley, associate professor of human development and family studies, and public policy, and Taylor Scott, assistant research professor in the Edna Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center, co-direct the Research-to-Policy Collaboration, which connects members of Congress with researchers who synthesize evidence about family and child policy in a timely and digestible manner.
The Research-to-Policy Collaboration has the potential to improve the quality of information available to Congress, increase the impact of relevant research, and create more common ground among American lawmakers at a polarized point in our history, said the researchers.