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 ...

"I wouldn't ask anyone in the company to do something if I wasn't able to explain to them why they needed to act and show them the evidence I had that it was going to work.” Here’s a recent example ...

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.

What makes an education intervention evidence-based? Over the last 20 years, that question has moved front and center as more federal and state agencies require programs to show evidence of ...

We draw on an existing framework (the Population, Intervention, Environment, Transfer-T process model) for assessing transferability of interventions between distinct settings and apply the model to ...

NAE Perspectives offer practitioners, scholars, and policy leaders a platform to comment on developments and issues relating to engineering. Barbara Simons is retired from IBM Research and is board ...

In the human resources world, I’ve observed that many leaders use their experience and intuition as decision-making guides. There’s a time and place for relying on experience and intuition, but solely ...