RAPID: Translating Basic Research Into Actionable Guidance Through the Societal Experts Action Network (SEAN)

州、国家和地方各级的决策者在领导所在社区的COVID-19恢复工作时，面临着一系列复杂的问题。这些问题包括失业率上升、学校和教育中断、不健康的做法、家庭暴力增加以及影响美国几乎每个人福祉的许多其他关键问题。为了就如何减轻这些问题做出明智的决定，决策者需要迅速获得尽可能好的证据和信息。这些证据和信息可以由社会、行为和经济科学领域的专家通过新成立的社会专家行动网络（SEAN）提供。SEAN将包括来自主要社会和行为科学机构的研究人员，并将由一个执行委员会指导，该委员会将与美国国家科学院新发传染病和21世纪健康威胁常设委员会协调。SEAN是一项多方面的工作，将包括许多组织一起协作，同时每个组织管理不同的组件。该项目的目的是创建和管理SEAN组件，负责将社会、行为和经济科学专家提供的丰富的学术研究、数据和其他材料迅速转化为可操作的指导，供决策者、企业和其他社区领导人立即使用。SEAN的翻译部分将以美国科学家联合会为基础，并将成为那些擅长将学术研究和数据翻译成可应用于当前现实世界事件的简单语言指导的顾问的家园。利用“快速专家咨询”模式，SEAN将向决策者提供关于一系列问题的专家指导，同时也向公众提供同样的指导。我们期望东南亚国家联盟将“快速专家咨询”的使用范围从医学和病毒学大大扩大到广泛的主题，例如如何最好地利用远程学习技术教育儿童、如何加强我们的供应链和小企业、如何解决社会孤立和家庭暴力以及我们社区现在和未来面临的许多其他公共问题。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Decision-makers at the state, national and local level are facing a range of complex issues as they lead the COVID-19 recovery efforts in their communities. These issues include increased unemployment, disruption of schools and education, unhealthy practices, increased domestic violence and many other critical problems affecting the well-being of virtually every person in the U.S. In order to make informed decisions on how to mitigate these issues, decision-makers need rapid access to the best possible evidence and information. That evidence and information can be provided by experts in the social, behavioral, and economic sciences through the newly formed Societal Experts Action Network (SEAN). SEAN will include researchers from leading social and behavioral science institutions and will be guided by an executive committee that will coordinate with the National Academies’ Standing Committee on Emerging Infectious Diseases and 21st Century Health Threats.SEAN is a multi-faceted effort and will include a number of organizations collaborating together while each managing different components. The purpose of this project is to create and manage the SEAN component responsible for rapidly translating the wealth of scholarly research, data and other materials provided by social, behavioral and economic science experts into actionable guidance that can be used immediately by decision-makers, businesses and other community leaders. The translation component of SEAN will be based at the Federation for American Scientists and will be home to consultants who are skilled at translating scholarly research and data into plain-language guidance that can be applied to current real-world events. Using the model of “Rapid Expert Consultations,” SEAN will provide expert guidance on a range of issues to decision-makers, while also making the same guidance available to the general public. We expect SEAN to greatly expand the use of “Rapid Expert Consultations” beyond medicine and virology into a broad range of subjects, such as how to best use remote-learning technology to teach children, how to bolster our supply chains and small businesses, how to address social isolation and domestic violence and many other public issues facing our communities now and into the future.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.