Sentences with phrase «public policy research said»

The Institute of Public Policy Research said there was a risk the plans could usher in «a chaotic reorganisation of schools, which neither central government nor school leaders have the capacity to deal with».

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Scientific, research - driven public policy might prevent shooting massacres like this week's at a Las Vegas country music festival, he said.

«It's also part of a civic duty,» said Joo Yu - min, an assistant professor at the National University of Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy whose research focuses on mega-events in Asian cities.

Elliot Schrage, Facebook's vice president for communications and public policy, and David Ginsberg, its director of research, said in a blog post on Monday that the company had made «real progress» in dealing with hoax stories and sham accounts since the 2016 election and the campaign, known as Brexit, to withdraw Britain from the European Union.

«The more likely someone is to use Uber and Lyft, the more likely they are to take public transportation, and for our industry that is very heartening,» said Darnell Grisby, the group's director of policy development and research.

But Adam Sonfield, senior public policy associate at the Guttmacher Inst - itute, a reproductive health research group, says the language is unclear, and it would be foolish to exclude vasectomies.

Mars plans to quit industry - funded science group, the International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI), and says it will support research regardless of results after making its science policy public.

Responding to research from the Consumers Health Forum, the Heart Foundation, the Obesity Policy Coalition and the Public Health Association of Australia, the Council's CEO Geoff Parker said better education around diet and lifestyle, not taxes, is a far better and more commonsense approach for a healthier country.

While bringing in an outsider can be a «great boost,» looking within the system shouldn't be overlooked, said John Aubrey Douglass, a senior research fellow for public policy and higher education at the Center for Studies in Higher Education at the University of California in Berkeley.

Lobbyists who want to influence legislation and policy to benefit their clients are primarily the ones paying $ 100 to $ 5,000 per person to attend each fundraiser, said Blair Horner, legislative director of the New York Public Interest Research Group.

Eddie Tuttle, Associate Director for Policy, Research and Public Affairs at the CIOB said: «With productivity growth, business investment and GDP growth all downgraded, a clear solution is to look to construction as an enabler that can allow all of these to improve.

«If you're getting paid to influence public policy, you should have to report,» said Blair Horner of the New York Public Interest Research Group, in supporting JCOPE's new mepublic policy, you should have to report,» said Blair Horner of the New York Public Interest Research Group, in supporting JCOPE's new mePublic Interest Research Group, in supporting JCOPE's new measure.

E.J. McMahon, research director of the Empire Center for Public Policy, said that for the first time since Cuomo took office in 2011 — when he reached a wide - ranging pact over Medicaid spending with various interest groups — such spending could be a major issue in the 2018 budget.

«Our members strive for excellence in their work and we support any actions that aspire towards higher standards and greater consistency across the construction of new homes,» said Eddie Tuttle, Associate Director for Policy, Research and Public Affairs at the CIOB.

«This governor has fancied himself as a sort of fiscal hawk but willing to deal with other issues from a more moderate or liberal perspective,» said Blair Horner, the executive director of New York Public Interest Research Group, citing Mr. Cuomo's conservative - minded moves, like the property tax cap, and his more progressive policies, like same - sex marriage.

«Blacks and Latinos have aligned goals on issues such as economics and healthcare because African - Americans and Hispanics have similar problems in those areas,» said David Bositis, senior research associate at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, a Washington, D.C. - based think tank that studies public policy issues affecting African - Americans.

Asked by Williams if the site kept track of illegal listings during one exchange, David Hantman, head of public policy for Airbnb, said: «We don't research that.»

«At the highest levels of government, people viewed economic development and energy policies as a gold rush,» said Blair Horner, the longtime legislative director for the New York Public Interest Research Group.

Being in the SUNY system could be a saving grace for the school's academic stability, said John Aubrey Douglass, a senior research fellow for public policy and higher education at the Center for Studies in Higher Education at the University of California in Berkeley.

E.J. McMahon, the founder and research director of Empire Center for Public Policy, said he believes a decline in upstate New York job creation could account for some of that population loss.

The county executive pointed to a study by E.J. McMahon, founder and research director for the conservative Empire Center for Public Policy, who has said housing values in the state could decline by up to 20 percent if fewer people are unable to afford more expensive homes and instead put money toward taxes.

E.J. McMahon, research director for Empire Center for Public Policy, said he believes the debate over the millionaires» tax has gained the most attention out of the executive budget.

Asked after the speech, at the Institute for Public Policy Research thinktank in London, how she envisaged balancing her hope for what she called an «enabling» immigration system with some voters» concerns on new arrivals, Abbott said it was vital to accentuate the positives.

Upstate's shrinking population helps explain its economic woes, said E.J. McMahon, research director of the Empire Center for Public Policy, a fiscally conservative watchdog group.

E.J. McMahon, research director of the Empire Center for Public Policy, said Buffalo Niagara's job growth «is not impressive at all... By national standards and compared to similarly sized metropolitan areas, it's been relatively weak.»

E.J. McMahon, research director at the conservative Empire Center for Public Policy, said in tweet during the Monday presentation that the governor's «continued insistence on hyping the impact strains credulity.»

He quotes research showing that 75 % of voters believe Labour was too subservient to America and that the general public are three times more likely than Labour party members to attribute it to the party's electoral defeat, which he says proves his approach to foreign policy is «mainstream».

The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) said ministers should change their mind and use the cash specifically for projects such as improving energy efficiency of homes, investing in low - carbon technologies and helping poorer countries cope with climate change.

The NSABB said that its decision was informed by a new government policy that could facilitate earlier review of «dual - use» research that can both benefit the public and be misused to threaten public health, agriculture or the environment.

«This pledge jeopardizes the credibility and trust that these organizations have worked really hard to get,» says Judith Auerbach, vice president for public policy at the American Foundation for AIDS Research.

«This truly is an opportune time,» said Sarah Rovito, assistant director of research policy at the Association of Public and Land - Grant Universities, during a panel discussion hosted by AAAS on the enduring importance of highlighting scientific discoveries.

«We need to know where there are inadequacies in these surveys to identify nutrition and food policy and research needs,» said the study's corresponding author, Mary Cluskey, an associate professor in OSU's College of Public Health and Human Sciences and a registered dietitian.

«The increasing trend of gun violence in PG - 13 movies that we detected in 2012 continues unabated,» said Dan Romer, research director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center and lead author of the article.

Once you have your research dream team, set ground rules, says Barry Bozeman, an Arizona State University professor of public policy who is studying the dos and don'ts of collaborations for the NSF.

«If environmental scientists truly espouse the ethical value of inclusivity, including diverse groups of people at the tables of research, decision making, policy and public debate, it is not only necessary to share scientific data, it is ethically obligatory,» Elliott said.

«Given that 50 percent of the world's population currently lives in cities, and that percentage is projected to increase to 70 percent by year 2050, there is a pressing need to understand how cities and landscapes are affected by heat waves,» said Lei Zhao, a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton's Program in Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy (STEP), which is based at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

This has yet to happen openly on the Internet, although such accusations have been leveled against China, Russia and other nations, says Chris Bronk, an information technology policy research fellow at Rice University's James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy in Houston and a former U.S. State Department dippolicy research fellow at Rice University's James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy in Houston and a former U.S. State Department dipPolicy in Houston and a former U.S. State Department diplomat.

Scientists must sharpen their message and do more to engage the public as they seek to influence policy on issues such as climate change, representatives of AAAS and the European Commission's Joint Research Centre said in report issued 3 July at the Euroscience Open Forum 2010 (ESOF2010) in Turin,...

It said NRC's public policy - related research should be shifted «to the appropriate federal agencies.»

The scientific community needs to more effectively speak out about the necessity of evidence - based policies, scientific integrity protections and public access to research to defend the role of science, said John Holdren, former White House science adviser, in a speech on the eve of the April 22nd March for Science.

«This type of collaborative research focused on specific management and conservation objectives provides important information for resource managers and policy decision - makers who manage public resources,» said Eric Forsman, a coauthor on the study at the USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research research focused on specific management and conservation objectives provides important information for resource managers and policy decision - makers who manage public resources,» said Eric Forsman, a coauthor on the study at the USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Research Station.

To the biomedical research community, she was refreshingly «frank and open,» says Tony Mazzaschi, senior director for policy and research at the Association of Schools and Programs of Public Health in Washington, D.C. «She will be sorely missed.»

In an e-mail to ScienceInsider, he says, «Without support for data and research in this area, it is very difficult to know which policy changes are most likely to generate net improvements in public safety that can justify the costs involved.»

«It would be unfortunate if this data were to influence public policy,» says endocrinologist Stephen O'Rahilly, who heads the metabolic research laboratories at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom.

«There has been significant discussion in the domains of educational research and public policy about the difficulties in both attracting and retaining students in STEM majors,» said Margaret Beier, associate professor of psychology at Rice and the study's co-author.

«Although the principles behind the Medicaid policy remain relevant, it is in dire need of modification,» said James Trussell, an author of the paper and the Charles and Marie Robertson Professor of Public and International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, faculty associate at the School's Office of Population Research and professor of economics.

The report is part of a series intended to give the public a clearer idea «of how their money is being spent,» says Hart, adding that future reports will examine the policies and practices of other research agencies.

Public health policy and research must overcome several barriers to developing vaccines for pregnant women, say authors Saad B. Omer, MBBS, PhD, professor of global health, epidemiology and pediatrics at Emory University and Richard H. Beigi, MD, MSc, associate professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and chief medical officer at Magee - Womens Hospital of UPMC.

Understanding how much society values those future people should be an influential component of climate policy decisions,» said Noah Scovronick, co-lead author and a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton University's Program in Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy (STEP), which is based at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Afpolicy decisions,» said Noah Scovronick, co-lead author and a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton University's Program in Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy (STEP), which is based at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International AfPolicy (STEP), which is based at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

«This research can be a starting point for a richer public dialogue on whether new policy is needed to fully value the environmental benefits of growing energy crops and making other land use changes,» says Gary Radloff, director of Midwest energy policy analysis at the Wisconsin Energy Institute.