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.

One of the great—if largely unsung—bipartisan congressional acts of recent history was the passage in 2018 of the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act. In essence, the “Evidence Act” ...

In the United States today, a person’s ability to live a healthy life is dramatically affected by where he or she lives. Someone’s subway stop or neighborhood block can mean the difference between ...

It is easy to overlook the fact that over 90% of medical treatments are not backed by strong evidence. People can find it ...

Clinical practice in the United States is marked by significant variation, leading in some cases to suboptimal quality of care and poor health outcomes. Despite the proliferation of clinical practice ...

What do the terms “evidence-based,” “fetus,” and “transgender” have in common? They’re on a list of seven words banned by the current Presidential Administration from the Center of Disease Control’s ...

To significantly impact the improvement of quality in healthcare, one needs to apply evidence-based practice (EBP). Without EBP, healthcare providers are at risk for variances in care that could ...

This essay appears in print in Thinking in a Pandemic. COVID-19’s impact has been swift, widespread, and devastating. Never have so many clinicians devoted themselves so resolutely, at significant ...