Engaging Decision-Makers: Opportunities and Priorities for Biological Science Organizations

Engaging public health decision makers in partnership research

Objective Involving decision makers in collaborative research partnerships can help increase the relevance and timeliness of the research question, and ensure the results are more readily applied in practice. These partnerships offer great benefits but also unique challenges. We will discuss some of these challenges, as identified from our recent study (Canadian Institutes of Health Research FR...

Decision-makers’ acquaintance with the public’s priorities in health services

BACKGROUND Decision makers often assume they know the public's standpoints and see themselves as capable of representing them. The aim of this study is to assess the level of acquaintance that senior decision-makers in the Israeli health system have concerning the priorities of the public in whose name they act. METHODS A phone survey was conducted with a representative population sample and ...

Commentary: Roles, opportunities, and challenges—science museums engaging the public in emerging science and technology

Even a cursory reading of the public engagement in science (PES) literature over the past decade reveals that public engagement is becoming part of the ‘‘orthodoxy of 21st century science policy’’ (Stilgoe, Nanodialogues: experiments in public engagement with science, 2007, p 16), Moving forward, there appears to be strong consensus that (1) public engagement is an essential component for shapi...

007 Bp: Engaging and Working with Decision Makers: Micro, Meso and Macro Level Reflections

What criteria do decision makers in Thailand use to set priorities for vaccine introduction?

BACKGROUND There is a need to identify rational criteria and set priorities for vaccines. In Thailand, many licensed vaccines are being considering for introduction into the Expanded Program on Immunization; thus, the government has to make decisions about which vaccines should be adopted. This study aimed to set priorities for new vaccines and to facilitate decision analysis. METHODS We used...