Sentences with phrase «says public policy expert»

Funding for icebreakers has «fallen between bureaucratic cracks» in past years, says public policy expert Sherri Goodman, a senior fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and a member of the Arctic Task Force at the Council on Foreign Relations.

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Maternal mortality review committees can play a key role in this process, public health experts say, by identifying pregnancy - related deaths that might otherwise be overlooked, analyzing the factors contributing to those deaths, and translating the lessons into policy changes.

But Andrei Sulzenko, a fellow at University of Calgary's School of Public Policy, who has worked on and studied expert - advice panels like the Jenkins committee, says any proposal that demands a «machinery of government» change is bound to meet stiff resistance.

Given the potential reverberating effects of divorce through a child's life, some divorce experts say that broken marriages have become a serious public policy question.

If a shift in public health policy were to result in an increase in male vaccinations, experts say, at the very least rates of females» HPV - associated cancers would decrease as a result of fewer infections acquired from men.

Good data are needed for good policy, says David Hemenway, an expert on injury and violence prevention at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

«If you want a stable climate, you have to bring emissions to zero,» says David Keith, a physicist and public policy expert at Harvard University.

«As policy experts and medical professionals move forward in their search for the proper balance between pain control and opioid over-prescribing, it will be important to keep high - risk groups in mind when refining public policy and medical practice,» said Kuo.

But an even broader overhaul is needed, says public health policy expert Aaron Kesselheim of Harvard University, one of the members of the panel that drafted the new opioid report.

«Our education system was formed in the manufacturing era, it was not designed to teach students how to navigate complex environments and multiple careers,» said report co-author, public policy expert Megan O'Connell in a statement.

Monique Morrissey, a pension expert at the Economic Policy Institute, a progressive think tank, says there is no reason to exempt charter schools from paying unfunded liabilities that are no more the public schools» fault than they are the charters».

«The EAS is going to be the governing body that eventually oversees the conversion of these schools into charters or be granted»em powered school» [status], which are basically charters but keep their public identity,» said Greg Harris, an education policy expert who recently ran Excellent Schools Detroit, a local coalition of education players and fundraisers.

If you don't understand the psychological biases and heuristics that technical experts, policy - makers, and the general public, use in thinking about uncertain risks, you won't be able to communicate effectively because people will unconsciously distort what you say to fit their preconceived (possibly faulty) mental model of the issue (see M. Granger Morgan, «Risk Communication: A Mental Models Approach» (Cambridge, 2001) for solid empirical evidence of this problem and how to avoid it.

Legislative and policy experts close to the issue said that if Inhofe's proposal had been passed, it would have removed vitally important public health protections more than two decades in the making that every year prevent up to:

«I think the very first letter she received was from me, and it took about six weeks to get an answer, and in the end, she refused my request,» said Stewart, a public - policy expert who recently served as the federal NDP's science critic.

Experts say policy premia of public sector companies have increased 14 per cent in 2013, compared to 2012.

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