The individuals and organizations whose job is to research, coordinate, influence, create, and disseminate science policy toil in a variety of settings: academia, think tanks, government agencies, the private sector, and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs).
By partnering with celebrities in productive ways to disseminate science and share basic critical appraisal skills, celebrities can be used as powerful tools for health literacy and health promotion.
More generally many scientists and information professionals are increasingly frustrated with the conventional means of disseminating science.
It develops, tests, and disseminates science-based, audience-tested and -tailored, and culturally appropriate resources for a wide range of audiences, including people with and at risk for diabetes and their families, health care providers, community-based lay workers, businesses and work sites.
On climate change, he supports international scientific opinion (the IPCC), and the honourable role he and other scientists play is to disseminate the science that explains what climate change is, why it is happening, and what cuts in greenhouse gases are needed to avoid the worst impacts.
EHP 's programs to disseminate environmental science worldwide, including our policy of open access, have provided much-needed access to vital information at a time of critical global development.
The burden is increasing on our new generation of young investigators to disseminate increasingly complex science to the community; however, there is no formal training offered in this endeavor.
The book lists similar tactics in each case: "discredit the science, disseminate false information, spread confusion, and promote doubt".
While in almost all circumstances basic research should be fully disseminated in the science community, in this case the results should not be published in a way that allows them to be replicated by others.
It is all an immensely complicated endeavor, one that requires W.A.D.A. to keep up with the onrushing science, to disseminate information to thousands of athletes, to navigate in different legal systems so that accused competitors get due process and, lastly, to manage the worldwide trafficking of urine samples.
A: My primary goal is to disseminate the passion for science around the world.
