Facilitating Rapid and Actionable Responses to Social, Behavioral, and Economic-Related COVID Questions: The Societal Experts Action Network (SEAN)

COVID-19疫情几乎扰乱了地球仪生活的方方面面。当联邦、州和地方各级的决策者做出回应时，他们正在努力解决许多复杂的科学问题。其中许多问题都是基于社会，行为和经济（SBE）科学。以下问题：·在受COVID-19严重影响的关键行业，哪些战略最有可能重启经济增长？·政府如何更有效地鼓励使用口罩和其他策略来减少疾病传播？·哪些最新的知识将使公共和私营部门的教育实体，以改善在线学习的成果？美国国家科学院、工程院和医学院的行为和社会科学及教育部与美国国家科学基金会合作，继续开展社会专家行动网络（SEAN）的工作，该网络于2020年夏季为应对新冠肺炎疫情而成立。SEAN产品旨在对联邦、州和地方决策者提出的紧急政策问题提供可行的回应。SEAN的独特之处在于它专注于快速，可读和基于研究的见解，以回答有关重新开放企业和经济增长，儿童教育，心理健康和社区恢复力等问题。由此产生的产品公开提供并广泛传播，不仅使提出请求的官员受益，而且使广大决策者和公众受益。SBE科学在解决国家重要性问题方面的价值与广大受众共享，从而有助于我们国家对如何在流行病和其他危机情况下最好地部署SBE知识的总体理解。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来支持。

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted nearly every aspect of life across the globe. As decision makers at the federal, state, and local level respond, they are grappling with numerous complex scientific questions. Many of these questions are grounded in the social, behavioral, and economic (SBE) sciences. Questions such as:• What strategies are most likely to restart economic growth in critically important sectors that were heavily affected by COVID-19?• How can governments more effectively encourage use of masks and other strategies to reduce disease transmission?• What recent knowledge will allow public and private sector educational entities to improve on-line learning outcomes?The Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, in collaboration with the National Science Foundation, continues the work of the Societal Experts Action Network (SEAN) which was established during the summer 2020 in response to the COVID pandemic. SEAN products are designed to provide actionable responses to urgent policy questions asked by federal, state, and local decision makers. SEAN is unique in its focus on rapid, readable, and research-based insights in response to questions on issues such as the reopening of businesses and economic growth, the education of children, the mental health and resilience of our communities, and many more. The resulting products are made publicly available and widely disseminated, which benefits not only the requesting official, but a broad range of decision makers and the public. The value of SBE sciences in addressing problems of national importance is shared with an expansive audience, thus contributing to our nation’s overarching understanding of how best to deploy SBE knowledge in pandemic and other crisis situations.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.