The phrase "affect policy making" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing the influence or impact that certain factors or actions have on the development or formulation of policies.
Example: "The recent research findings could significantly affect policy making in the area of public health."
Alternatives: "influence policy development" or "impact policy formulation".
They would be, in the words of one former official who has worked with them both, "comfortable choices for a president who has had his differences" with a sprawling intelligence apparatus that Mr. Obama has said was often too slow to give him what he needed in his first term, and at other times went beyond its role to try to affect policy making.
Project findings on key informal health providers may significantly affect policy making.
There is a need to systematically document how the results of OR actually affect policy making at district level in decentralised health systems.
The apparent unethical behavior of the East Anglia scientists could damage popular support for the scientific community, and that could affect policy making and government funding.
The purpose of the 16 Cities Study was to affect policy making, not to advance scientific knowledge; the results as presented (Jenkins et al. 1996) served the tobacco industry's goal of preventing regulation of smoking.
He explores unequal social class representation in the political process and how it affects policy making.
This agenda will affect policy-making in the EU in the coming years, our correspondent says.
As a consequence, even liberals assume that the only way to change things is by operating through the market and "voting with our dollars" rather than through social struggle that can affect policy-making.
At each point, implementation research can address the political, historical, cultural, socioeconomic, health services and/or resource factors that affect policy-making and policy implementation.
In an era when money's influence of politics and too-cozy relationships between companies and the government continue to affect policy decision making nationwide, citizens are saying they've had enough.
Mr. Mangano called Dr. Gould "a sort of citizen-scientist" and said: "He knew how to mix disciplines and how to affect policy to make things happen.
