Improve how science advice is provided to governments by learning from "experts in expert advice"

Roger Pielke Jr

doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.3002004

Improve how science advice is provided to governments by learning from "experts in expert advice"

PLoS Biol. 2023 Feb 21;21(2):e3002004. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3002004. eCollection 2023 Feb.

Author

Roger Pielke Jr¹

Affiliation

¹ Department of Environmental Studies, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America.

Abstract

During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, science advisory mechanisms did not always live up to expectations. What practical steps can the expert community take to improve advisory mechanisms in an emergency?

Copyright: © 2023 Roger Pielke. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Publication types

Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

MeSH terms

COVID-19* / epidemiology
COVID-19* / prevention & control
Government
Humans
Pandemics / prevention & control

Grants and funding

This work is supported by US National Science Foundation 2029196 - RAPID Grant to RP. The funder had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.