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A Carbon Tax to Combat Climate Change and Support Low-Income Households

A tax-and-dividend approach that mitigates the challenging impacts that carbon policies have on poor and suburban/rural communities.

01.27.21 | 1 min read
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Disrupting Vulnerability Traps and Catalyzing Community Resilience

The Federal Government should radically enhance its efforts to build community disaster resilience.

01.21.21 | 2 min read
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Rethinking Payment for Prevention in Healthcare

The government should provide incentives to healthcare providers that scale up and reduce costs of delivering preventive interventions.

01.08.21 | 2 min read
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Elevating Patients as Partners in Management of Their Health Data and Tissue Samples

The next administration should empower patients as partners in managing of their health data and tissue samples.

01.05.21 | 1 min read
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Congressional briefing: Potential of fluvoxamine to counter COVID-19

There has been a surge of public interest in the drug fluvoxamine as a potential treatment for individuals with mild COVID-19, and Congressional offices are receiving many questions about the possibility of using the drug to counter COVID-19 from constituents. This brief outlines what is known to date about fluvoxamine in the context of the […]

01.05.21 | 3 min read
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Providing High-Quality Telehealth Care for Veterans

The Federal Government should build critical technology infrastructure that will facilitate expansion and use of telehealth for veterans.

12.29.20 | 1 min read
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An Evidence-based Approach to Controlling Drug Costs

The next administration should control drug costs through an evidence-based approach to optimizing drug dosing and improving outcomes.

12.21.20 | 1 min read
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Advancing Economic, Health, and Racial Equity by Increasing the Use of Evidence and Data

The next administration should ensure equitable recovery and economic mobility by promoting evidence-based decision-making across agencies.

12.18.20 | 2 min read
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A Draft Executive Order to Ensure Healthy Homes: Eliminating Lead and Other Housing Hazards

Establish a cabinet-level Presidential Task Force on Lead Poisoning Prevention and Healthy Housing to eliminate lead poisoning.

12.14.20 | 1 min read
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Eliminate Billion-Dollar Disasters: Equitable Science-Based Disaster Policy for a Resilient Future

U.S. disaster policy emphasizes recovery rather than prevention. The Federal Government must overhaul disaster policy to eliminate devastating billion-dollar disasters.

12.03.20 | 5 min read
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Enabling Better Access to Federal Transportation Funds for Small and Rural Communities

An approach to simplify and expand access to the BUILD program at the Department of Transportation.

11.23.20 | 1 min read
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Scientists take action by engaging with Congress on the promise of monoclonal antibody therapies for COVID-19

The limited science and technology (S&T) resources available to policymakers in Congress and state legislatures have compounded the severity of the COVID-19 pandemic. To help meet legislators’ S&T needs, the Federation of American Scientists (FAS) organized more than 60 specialists with expertise in all the different aspects of the pandemic to serve on the COVID-19 Rapid Response Task […]

11.20.20 | 5 min read
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