RAPID: Societal Trust and Health amidst COVID-19, and an Evaluation Framework for the Societal Experts Action Network (SEAN)

政府和企业的决策者往往无法从科学研究中提取可采取行动的信息。因此，这种知识的潜在公共利益被削弱了。社会专家行动网络（SEAN）是一项独特的努力，旨在弥合这一差距，并改善社会，行为和经济（SBE）科学的可操作见解向决策者的传输，他们可以从知识中受益。SEAN是美国国家科学、工程和医学院（NASEM）关注COVID-19的一部分。在与NASEM常设委员会对新发传染病和21世纪世纪健康威胁的协调，SEAN提供SBE的数据和社会，行为和经济（SBE）问题的建议，决策者和公众。SEAN的主要目标之一是迅速收集并向政府官员和其他管理流行病并致力于恢复的领导人传达可操作的科学证据。该项目将1）利用SEAN主持下收集的调查数据来研究社会信任及其与健康结果的关系，2）创建一个评估SEAN的评估框架。它将使用COVID-19相关调查数据创建原始科学证据，并将对SEAN的COVID-19相关传播活动的有效性和影响进行评估。该项目的第一部分将分析与SEAN COVID-19调查档案相关的调查数据，以了解对当局（医疗，科学，政府，媒体）的信任在公众的关键健康行为中发挥的关键作用。COVID-19对美国的公共卫生和民众福祉构成严重威胁。据预测，社会成员信任的联邦、州和地方各级政府官员向他们通报COVID-19的情况，他们在普通公众对这种疾病的行为反应以及最终对他们的积极健康结果方面发挥着重要作用。在该项目的第二部分，研究团队将与SEAN领导层合作，计划对SEAN进行全面的外部评估。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得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。

Too often, decision-makers in government and business have been unable to extract actionable information from scientific studies. As a result, the potential public benefit from that knowledge is blunted. The Societal Experts Action Network (SEAN) is a unique effort to bridge that gap and improve transmission of actionable insights from the social, behavioral, and economic (SBE) sciences to decision-makers who can benefit from the knowledge. SEAN is part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) focus on COVID-19. In coordination with the NASEM Standing Committee on Emerging Infectious Diseases and 21st Century Health Threats, SEAN provides SBE data and recommendations on social, behavioral, and economic (SBE) matters to decision-makers and the public. One of SEAN’s key goals is to rapidly gather and communicate actionable scientific evidence to public officials and other leaders who are managing the pandemic and working toward recovery.This project will 1) utilize survey data gathered under SEAN’s auspices to examine societal trust and its relationships to health outcomes, and 2) create a framework for an evaluative assessment of SEAN. It will create original scientific evidence using COVID-19-related survey data and will provide an evaluation of the effectiveness and impact of SEAN’s COVID-19-related communication activities. The first part of this project will analyze survey data associated with the SEAN COVID-19 survey archive to understand the critical role that trust in authorities (medical, scientific, government, media) plays in critical health behaviors by members of the public. COVID-19 represents a grave threat to America’s public health and the well-being of its populace. It is predicted that government officials at the federal, state and local levels who are trusted by members of society to inform them about COVID-19 play a large role in the lay public’s behavioral responses to the disease and, ultimately, their positive health outcomes. In the second part of this project, the research team will work with SEAN leadership, to plan a thorough, external evaluation of SEAN.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.