Some 20 million Americans experience high-impact pain that significantly impairs their life or work, but it is often referred to as a silent epidemic. It is a problem that often…

Despite our best intentions to be curious and humble, many of us know the impulse to categorize opinions we don’t understand or agree with as irrational or otherwise deficient. Through research with urgency in…

Civic Science Fellows panel begins at 1:43:43 Held over three days, two coasts, and in hybrid virtual spaces, the 5th National Academies Science Communication Colloquium this month gathered researchers, science communicators,…

Elizabeth Christopherson, President and CEO, Rita Allen Foundation: How would you describe yourself to the civic science network? Greg Tananbaum: I am the Director of the Open Research Funders Group, a…

Two top communications experts in their respective fields are making important headway on an existential question facing democracies around the world: How do we get people who have different attitudes,…

Joyce Yen, a resource partner for the Civic Science Fellows program and Director of the University of Washington’s ADVANCE Center for Institutional Change, has dedicated her career to improving the…

Science Philanthropy Alliance President France Córdova and Alliance Civic Science Fellow Daren Ginete are working to build the future of scientific discovery, including increasing opportunities for scientists from diverse backgrounds—recognizing that excellence requires, in France’s words,…

What do an interdisciplinary behavioral scientist turned Civic Science Fellow, a developmental biologist/ physicist/historian turned science and democracy advocate, and a concert pianist turned public administration and social innovation leader…

With support from the Rita Allen Foundation, First Draft News has published a series of reports that analyze the relationship between misinformation and vaccine hesitancy among communities of color. Last…

To drive our theories of change, which strategies are most useful and when: Deliberative? Emergent? Both? These are questions our Civic Science Fellows explored this month with…