The phrase "address a critical issue" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing the importance of tackling a significant problem or challenge in a particular context.
Example: "The committee met to address a critical issue regarding the funding of the new project."
Alternatives: "tackle an important problem" or "confront a significant challenge."
"Soft skills" like empathy can also help to address a critical issue facing physicians: high burnout rates.
But while streamlining the system and adding staff members will better serve the immediate needs of consumers, the reforms fail to address a critical issue: the system's self-regulation.
He accused the White House of failing to address a critical issue facing the nuclear-energy industry -- the growing stockpile of nuclear waste -- in an effort to placate Nevada lawmakers.
But Mr. Bush on Thursday did not address a critical issue raised by the discovery of the missed explosives: why American forces were not alerted to the existence of a huge cache of explosives, even though the atomic energy agency and American officials had publicly discussed the threat it posed, and knew its exact location.
A great way to align your brand with an environmental cause and make measurable progress towards sustainability is to design products that address a critical issue.
The protein design is meant to address a critical issue, namely creation of a surface capable of secondary nucleation without being subject to elongation.
Not releasing that money also means not addressing a critical issue of justice -- reversing decades of ethnic cleansing that has forced close to one million people in Iraqi Kurdistan from their homes.
This research therefore addresses a critical issue within the forensic sciences.
We addressed a critical issue in the RW based sampling methods on graphs: the burn-in period.
Please see related research by Lossius et al, http://ccforum.com/content/15/1/R26 First, let me applaud the authors for addressing a critical issue in the resuscitation of out-of-hospital patients [ 1].
Although GCTA does not identify specific genes associated with these traits, it addresses a critical issue in genome-wide association studies: the extent to which common SNPs used on commercially available SNP arrays can account for the heritability of quantitative traits (Yang et al. 2011b).
