As Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance announces its next five-year strategy, the SSRC’s Mercury Project explains the importance of building robust and science-informed vaccine demand chains to complement vaccine supply chains.
Frontiers in Social and Behavioral Science features new research in the flagship journals of the Social Science Research Council’s founding disciplinary associations. Every month we publish a new selection of articles from the most recent issues of these journals, marking the rapid advance of the frontiers of social and behavioral science.
In part six of a new series profiling participants in the SSRC Criminal Justice Innovation Fellowship program, Zachary Porreca talks about his research on gun violence, drug markets, and the prison system.
In part five of a new series profiling participants in the SSRC Criminal Justice Innovation Fellowship program, Emma Rackstraw talks about her research on the effects of police reality TV shows and how employers respond to job candidates with a criminal record.
In part four of a new series profiling participants in the SSRC Criminal Justice Innovation Fellowship program, Michael Topper talks about his research on the impact of policing on public health.
The Measure of America program uses granular data and effective communication to enable stakeholders to better understand the problem of youth disconnection, and to develop policies to reduce the share of young people neither working nor in school.
In part three of a new series profiling participants in SSRC’s Criminal Justice Innovation Fellowship program, Britte van Tiem talks about her research on how prison policies affect the lives of people who are incarcerated.
To build researchers’ communications skills, the Mercury Project recently organized two convenings featuring Ann Searight Christiano, director of the University of Florida’s Center for Public Interest Communications, and Estelle Willie, director of Health Policy and Communications at The Rockefeller Foundation. These sessions imparted valuable lessons on effective research communication.
Frontiers in Social and Behavioral Science features new research in the flagship journals of the Social Science Research Council’s founding disciplinary associations. Every month we publish a new selection of articles from the most recent issues of these journals, marking the rapid advance of the frontiers of social and behavioral science.
In part two of a new series profiling participants in the SSRC’s Criminal Justice Innovation Fellowship program, Aria Golestani talks about his research on gender and racial bias in the criminal justice system.
