Commentary: Beyond the decadal surveys: Establishing policy for US space science

The plant science decadal vision: response to the Martin commentary.

The plant science decadal vision.

The enormous challenges to 21st century societies that include rapidly rising global population, ensuring food security, the need for increased food production in the face of changing climates with lower agricultural inputs, guaranteeing adequate nutrition to reduce the global burden of chronic disease, and the escalating need for energy produced from renewable feedstocks, have been viewed as p...

Beyond “Two Cultures”: Guidance for Establishing Effective Researcher/Health System Partnerships

Background The current literature proposing criteria and guidelines for collaborative health system research often fails to differentiate between: (a) various types of partnerships, (b) collaborations formed for the specific purpose of developing a research proposal and those based on long-standing relationships, (c) researcher vs. decision-maker initiatives, and (d) the underlying drivers for ...

Policy for science for policy: A commentary on Lambright on ozone depletion and acid rain

Scientists face increasing pressure to demonstrate how their work contributes to societal objectives. Likewise, policy makers proposing environmental policies are often asked to provide the scientific basis on which their proposals are based. These twin pressures are forcing a closer connection between science and policy. In our view, policy-for-science-for-policy is a recursive process of defi...

Policy Coherence in US Tobacco Control: Beyond FDA Regulation

As the Obama administration moves to enact meaningful and comprehensive health care reform in the United States, tobacco control must be elevated as a public health priority [1]. Though tobacco control efforts have been recognized as a top public health achievement of the 20th century [2], tobacco use continues to be the leading preventable cause of death in the US [3]. As Box 1 shows, the US b...