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Strengthening and diversifying the biomedical research workforce through a National Institutes of Health and Department of Education collaboration

Addressing health inequities and serving our nation’s diverse population requires an equally diverse biomedical workforce.

Health & Life Sciences

Saving 3.1 Million Lives a Year with a President’s Emergency Plan to Combat Acute Childhood Malnutrition

Like HIV/AIDS, acute childhood malnutrition is deadly but treatable with the right approach. A President’s Emergency Plan for Acute Childhood Malnutrition could catalyze the fight against malnutrition and direct resources to greater impact.

Education & Workforce

Digital Ethics for All: Implementing a National Digital Framework for K–12 Education

In our growing age of tech and social media, tech-ethics are increasingly relevant. A National Digital Ethics Framework can equip students to navigate a digitally transforming world responsibly and successfully.

Energy, Environment & Climate

Health & Life Sciences

Investing in Digital Agriculture Innovation to Secure Food, Yields, and Livelihoods

Improving local food security is critical to ending poverty and eliminating hunger, and United States Government can be a global leader. From Jonathan Lehe, Nick Milne, and Gautam Bastian, a proposal for USAID, Feed the Future, and its partners to launch a Digital Agriculture for Food Security Challenge to improve crop yields worldwide.

Energy, Environment & Climate

Health & Life Sciences

Unlocking the U.S. Bioeconomy with the Plant Genome Project

Plants are key to enable a diversified and climate-resilient food system. Mary Fernandes proposes a Plant Genome Project (PGP), a robust Human Genome Project-style initiative to build a dataset of genetic information on plant species.

Education & Workforce

The STEMpathy Task Force: Creating a Generation of Culturally Competent STEM Professionals

STEM subjects are powerful levers for change, but formal STEM-ed lacks opportunities to practice cultural competency. Anjika Pai and Sophia Swartz propose a task force committed to building values of inclusion and public service into the U.S. STEM workforce.

Health & Life Sciences

Innovation & Economic Competitiveness

Pandemic Readiness Requires Bold Federal Financing for Vaccines

Getting ahead of the next pandemic is impossible without government financing.

Science Policy

How Unmet Desire Surveys Can Advance Learning Agendas and Strengthen Evidence-Based Policymaking

To improve program outcomes, federal evaluation officers should conduct “unmet desire surveys” to advance federal learning agendas and built agency buy-in.

Science Policy

Public Value Evidence for Public Value Outcomes: Integrating Public Values into Federal Policymaking

The federal government should broaden institutional capacity to collect and integrate evidence on public values into policy and decision making.