Facilitating Rapid Responses to SBE-Related Questions: the Societal Experts Action Network (SEAN)

新冠肺炎疫情几乎扰乱了全球生活的方方面面。此外，新冠肺炎揭示了让我们容易受到危机影响的社会问题。社会专家行动网络(Sean)有可能通过关注经济不平等、气候变化、工作场所保护、药物滥用、心理健康和教育系统等问题，帮助地方和州决策者更好地为未来的危机做好准备。当联邦、州和地方各级的决策者努力做出适当回应时，他们正在努力解决许多涉及社会科学和行为科学的复杂科学问题。执行委员会、顾问组和更大的网络聘请了能够借鉴社会、行为和经济科学并为决策者的问题提供可行答案的专家。这些响应是根据问题和所需的时间表量身定做的，有助于我们国家对如何最好地利用社会、行为和经济知识来应对大流行及其以外的影响的总体理解。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted nearly every aspect of life across the globe. Furthermore, COVID-19 has illuminated issues in society that make us vulnerable to crises in general. The Societal Experts Action Network (SEAN) has the potential to help local and state decision makers better prepare for future crises by focusing on issues such as economic inequality, climate change, workplace protections, substance abuse, mental health, and education systems, among others. As decision makers at the federal, state, and local level struggle to respond appropriately, they are grappling with many complex scientific questions involving the social and behavioral sciences. The Executive Committee, Advisory Group, and larger network engages experts who can draw upon social, behavioral, and economic sciences and provide actionable answers to decision makers’ questions. The responses, which are be tailored to the question and timeline needed, contribute to our nation’s overarching understanding of how best to deploy social, behavioral, and economic knowledge to address the impacts of the pandemic and beyond.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.