multiagency strategy for understanding and working to develop the science to mitigate the impacts of unconventional oil and natural gas production and this is with our office and usgs and epa and like wise you see the l recommendations that are pointed to doe. and this report really points back to that role for the arctic as well. in one way the way i think about the work of our office is we re the office of science for federal and state regular lay to rs. we were in alaska last week and i can tell you state regulators in alaska are very much focused on these questions and understanding what the science says in an unbiased and neutral manner about this activity can proceed. and those are the same questions that our partners are asking at other federal agencies, and we re the the office that they turned to understand what the center of the science understands. and it s a vital role that government research plays and providing policymakers with an unbiased view of science, tech
in order to ensure that public confidence we re going to have to make sure that we are conducting science in demonstrating technologies in transparent manners. so that means in some sort of public manner, whether it s through the work of the national labs. we have the work of national labs across the country that are part of the department of energy. whether it s through public, private partnerships and many of which are referenced and surveyed in the study or through academic work, but in order for policymakers to rely on science and technology demonstration in policy making, that work is going to have to be done in a transparent manner that the public can have confidence in. i think you will see quite a few of the recommendations in the study have that in mind and we very much look forward in identifying ways that the department of energy can be part of that continued resource and that demonstration. the many will ask why the arctic, why now outside of this leadership imp
demonstrating technologies in transparent manners. so that means in some sort of public manner, whether it s through the work of the national labs. we have the work of national labs across the country that are part of the department of energy. whether it s through public, private partnerships and many of which are referenced and surveyed in the study or through academic work, but in order for policymakers to rely on science and technology demonstration in policy making, that work is going to have to be done in a transparent manner that the public can have confidence in. i think you will see quite a few of the recommendations in the study have that in mind and we very much look forward in identifying ways that the department of energy can be part of that continued resource and that demonstration. the many will ask why the arctic, why now outside of this leadership imperative when we have such a tremendous abundance of domestic oil and gas in the lower 48, and the simple answ
communities and clin igss and governments and others needs to know what works in order to know what to implement more widely. a number of questions arose, how do we do that? how do we know how communities define what works? that s not always the same as the way researchers define what works. how do decisionmakers define what works and how do the different perspectives intersect? finally as i mentioned, they noted there were two studies of interventions with the rigorous evaluation. opportunities that we see from the u.s. perspective for building on communities, first of all acknowledging that these kinds of problems need shared knowledge and tailored efforts. but when we re tailoring intervention interventions, how can we be sure that others are learning from those interventions? if they are successful, what s required for implementation. and once an intervention is implemented, how can one ensure that the intervention can be sustained? so how can the results of successful in
wellness and health, there are many slices to the pie. focusing on the health sector alone is not sufficient, one has to think about the economic sector and we talked about this, economy, education, the physical environment, climate. and also remembering social history and how that influences the way the people respond to current challenges. so the u.s. proposed project under the arctic council was called reducing the incidence of suicide in indigenous groups, or rising sun. the context for this was remembering that as i ve shown you in the first slides, there s an elevated risk of suicide in these remote rural arctic communities. we also are talking about communities with considerable cultural diversity and often very small populations. so the standard approaches that researchers tend to use to evaluate the efficacy and effectiveness of interventions is quite challenging. what might be a way to get around some of those things? there are also important assumptions and those a