The FAS-OMB Evidence Forum: Thinking Back and Looking Forward
Until a month ago, I was an event skeptic.
When it’s as easy as a Zoom link to connect with colleagues, I found it hard to believe that getting a bunch of people together around an agenda was ever really worth the time and effort.
Point one for my colleagues at FAS and the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB), who thought that co-hosting an“证据论坛”in support of theWhite House Year of Evidence for Action是个好主意。完全正确。
TheFAS-OMB证据论坛，2022年10月7日在华盛顿特区举行的半天会议，证明事件在包含三个关键组成部分时确实可以推动进步：引人入胜的想法，有效的冠军和开放的结构，使参与者能够与自己的交汇工作。让我们在证据论坛的背景下介绍其中的每一个。
引人入胜的想法
The Evidence Forum showcased four novel proposals for enhancing evidence-based policy and practice across federal government. Three of these ideas were developed through the“行动挑战的证据”co-sponsored by FAS and thePew Charitable Trusts Evidence Project。这些想法是：
- Incorporating evidence on what the public values into policymaking。例如，在设计气候行动计划时，公众愿意接受各种形式的气候适应策略可以并且应与专家评估一起考虑。
- Using unmet desire surveys to facilitate productive collaboration among federal agency staff and external experts。Such surveys could, in particular, identify where federal staff could use help from others in advancing agency learning agendas.
- Launching an intergovernmental research and evaluation consortium focused on economic mobility。By linking datasets and creating reusable evaluation templates, such a consortium could enable cheap, fast, and reliable assessments of various economic programs.
论坛上也共享的第四个想法正在纳入Living Evidence进入联邦倡议。尽管传统的知识综合方法通常是静态的，并且可以在快速发展的领域中迅速过时，但活着的证据使用了精心设计的，动态方法产生始终是当前的知识摘要。这对于新的研究证据迅速出现，当前的证据尚不确定，新研究可能会改变政策或实践的主题尤其重要。
有效的冠军
该论坛展示了当一个可以赋予这些想法维度和生活的人表达的人时，纸上的想法变得更加强大。在扶手椅讨论中，博士。朱利安·埃利奥特（Monash University）和Arlene Bierman（美国医疗保健研究与质量机构）强调，生命证据不是理论上的结构 - 它已经在为动态提供了信息COVID-19-clinical Practice指南and shedding light on基于植物的治疗作为替代性疼痛管理方法。Similarly, Kathy Stack (Yale University) drew on her extensive past experience at OMB to illustrate why intergovernmental partnerships are crucial for improving evaluation and delivery of programs that serve overlapping populations.
The Forum elevated newer voices as well. Postdoctoral research associate Nich Weller (Arizona State University) argued that while federal evidence efforts acknowledge the importance of social, cultural and Indigenous knowledge, they do not draw adequate attention to the challenges of generating, operationalizing, and integrating such evidence in routine policy and decision making. Nich laid out a vision for a federal evidence enterprise that would incorporate the living and lived experiences, knowledge, and values of the public alongside scientific findings and expert analysis. Associate Professor Adam Levine (Johns Hopkins University) also emphasized that effective evidence-based policy depends on interpersonal connections. As Adam explained,
问题不只是陌生人不知道彼此 - 陌生人并不总是知道如何talkto one another.
Intentionally addressing this reality is essential to cultivating productive working relationships.
开放结构
我们都参加了您的活动几个小时，然后离开并继续您的一天。FAS-OMB证据论坛通过在议程的整个第一部分提供互动问答的机会来打破了这一模具，然后将第二部分专门用于开放的构想会议，鼓励与会者集思广益地集思广益，如何在其家庭机构中应用生活证据。
一旦轻松的破冰船问题（“您最喜欢的意大利面形状是什么，为什么？”）引起了创意果汁的流动，这些想法快速而愤怒。首先是成对合作的，然后是小组，最终与参与者最终磨练了四个紧迫的政策问题，活着的证据可以帮助回答：
- What types of stakeholder engagement strategies are most effective?
- How do various social determinants of health affect health outcomes?
- When should those suffering from long COVID be deemed eligible for disability benefits?
- 政府如何培养当地知识和关于气候适应策略的学术研究？
Participants also worked together to outline specific components that could be included in Living Evidence research agendas for each of these questions and defined criteria for success.
Looking ahead
论坛本身发生了很多很棒的事情。但是我很高兴见证此后几周的后续行动。由论坛的促进，机构已经在采取具体步骤来确定其他政策领域的政府间研究和评估财团，以未经满足的欲望问题的方式更新现有的调查，将公共价值作为经验证据进行验证，并考虑需要哪些支持和指导来定位生活证据。作为联邦评估工具包的标准组成部分。
And I am confident that, in what remains of the White House Year of Evidence and thereafter, much more exciting work is to come. To echo the words of Sir Jeremy Farrar (Wellcome) during his Evidence Forum keynote address,
This is the moment for us to grasp—not in fear, not in uncertainty, not to be down beaten by the challenges the world faces at the moment. But to say that we actually can make the world a better place.
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