The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the non-profit publisher of the Science family of journals, has announced the launch of the Center for Scientific Evidence in Public Issues, which will bring clearly and strategically communicated information to decision makers -from policymakers to parents -and to others who influence them, when they need it most.
The new Center will address important policy issues that are at the forefront of public conversation and involve a broad range of audiences--from the federal executive and legislative branches to state and local governments, the judiciary and private citizens. Diverse viewpoints will be considered in assessing the state of the science, the evidence available, recent and future directions for research and knowledge gaps, as well as societal contexts such as policy decisions and public input.
The work and communications efforts of the AAAS Center for Scientific Evidence in Public Issues will reach audiences in communities across the US, with Center staff based at AAAS headquarters in Washington. Generous founding support has been provided by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the Rita Allen Foundation, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and the Hellman family.
Science policy and public affairs expert Michael Fernandez has been selected as the founding director of the AAAS Center for Scientific Evidence in Public Issues.
Fernandez joins AAAS from George Washington University, where he was most recently a senior fellow for its Food Policy Institute and Sustainability Collaborative and a lecturer at the Milken Institute of Public Health. Prior to that, he was senior director of global public policy at Mars, Inc., and executive director at the Pew Initiative on Food and Biotechnology. Fernandez first became involved in policy as an AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow with the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry in 1991, and then as professional staff with the committee for the next three years.
The AAAS Center for Scientific Evidence in Public Issues will be adding policy and communications staff and an advisory council over the next few months and plans to hold stakeholder engagement summits in early 2019.
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