Austin skyline. The city's “Reimagining Public Safety” project used evidence-based policymaking to inform the city's budget decisions and to shape public safety policies starting in 2020.

Agencies and the White House are getting into the weeds of how to put the OPEN Government Data Act into effect. Almost a year after the passage of the OPEN Government Data Act and the Foundations for ...

This is the second in a seven-part series examining the policing strategies that shape public safety in America, including ...

Who doesn’t believe evidence should guide our decisions? Basing care and policy on evidence seems the best approach intuitively but why then is it so difficult to accomplish? A commentary in Public ...

Public health is most successful when nothing happens. When a child does not contract measles. When a cancer is prevented before it begins. When an outbreak of a foodborne illness does not happen.

Amid shrinking budgets, multiplying federal and state requirements for school improvement, and rapidly changing educational technology, it’s critical for education leaders to identify whether a given ...

Whom Have Trump’s Tariffs Helped? Seniors Are Devouring the Federal Budget Audio By Carbonatix We supposedly live in an era of “evidence-based medicine,” in which medical decisions are guided by the ...

Among the challenges of being diagnosed with dementia and caring for someone diagnosed with dementia is navigating the complicated health, legal, and social systems designed to help and protect people ...

Local and personal factors, such as neighborhood, race, gender, and age, significantly influence our mental health status. Between 2000 and 2020, for example, rural communities experienced a 46 ...