Experimental Methods,
Biomedical Science
Jordan Dworkin is the Metascience Program Lead for the Federation of American Scientists. His work focuses on strengthening the ties between the metascience and policy communities, with the goal of improving scientific funding, institutions, and incentive structures through experimentation.
Before joining FAS, Dworkin was an assistant professor of clinical biostatistics at Columbia University and the New York State Psychiatric Institute; his research touched on statistical methodology, medical imaging, and mental health. He holds a PhD in Biostatistics from the University of Pennsylvania and a BS in Psychology from Haverford College.
Collaboration between federal agencies and academic researchers is an important tool for public policy. This primer provides an initial set of questions and topics for agencies to consider when exploring academic partnership.
To enhance transparency, encourage collaboration, and optimize public-good impacts, funding agencies should allow researchers to make grant proposals publicly available.
Common frameworks for evaluating proposals leave this utility function implicit, often evaluating aspects of risk, uncertainty, and potential value independently and qualitatively.
Truly open science requires that the public is not only able to access the products of research, but the knowledge embedded within.
We partnered with Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management to host the first Metascience Hackathon. Here’s what we learned.