Collaborative Research: Behavioral Science and the Making of the Right-Reasoning Public Health Citizenry

该奖项支持一个合作研究项目，该项目调查公共卫生中的行为模式如何产生关于成为合理的公共卫生公民意味着什么的规范性想法。行为科学在塑造公共卫生和应对全球卫生问题的政策方面发挥着关键作用，但尚未得到充分研究。在新冠肺炎大流行后公共政策和公共卫生的这一关键时刻，该团队将调查美国公共卫生行为科学中嵌入的道德推理和公民身份模型。更广泛地说，这项研究调查公共卫生行为的预测和解释模型如何也为道德推理和公共卫生公民身份创建标准模型。研究成果将在两篇科学和技术研究文章中分享，一篇面向卫生政策制定者和从业者的文章，以及一篇面向公众的评论。该小组将为研究生研究助理提供大量培训和指导；召集公共卫生硕士和公共政策硕士学生参加以实践为基础的讲习班；并撰写一篇关于讲习班的教学文章。这是一个研究公共卫生中行为科学的历史先例和当代实践的项目。该项目的研究团队将调查以下研究问题：如何通过公共卫生行为科学产生正确推理的公共卫生公民的标准形象？这些规范形象是如何在卫生治理中获得权威的？面对对专家权威的抵制，这些规范形象是如何保持的？该小组将使用档案研究和文件分析的方法来开发主要行为模式的比较分析。通过建立正确推理的公共卫生公民的理论概念化，该项目的结果将有助于重新配置公共卫生主权和公民身份，并为反思和批判性审查公共政策中的行为科学专业知识打开空间。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This award supports a collaborative research project that investigates how behavioral models in public health produce normative ideas about what it means to be a reasonable public health citizen. Behavioral science plays a pivotal, but understudied, role in shaping public health and policy responses to global health issues. At this critical juncture for both public policy and public health in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the team will investigate the models of moral reasoning and citizenship embedded in public health behavioral science in the U.S. More generally, this research investigates how predictive and explanatory models for public health behavior also create normative models for moral reasoning and public health citizenship. Research findings will be shared in two Science and Technology Studies articles, an article for health policymakers and practitioners, and a commentary written for a public audience. The team will offer substantial training and mentorship to graduate research assistants; convene a practice-based workshop with Master of Public Health students and Master of Public Policy students; and write a pedagogical article about the workshop. This is a project that studies the historical precedents and contemporary practices of behavioral science in public health. The team of researchers on the project will investigate the following research questions: How are normative images of the right-reasoning public health citizenry produced through public health behavioral science? How have these normative images acquired authority in the governance of health? How have these normative images been maintained in the face of resistance to expert authority? The team will employ methods of archival research and document analysis to develop a comparative analysis of principal behavioral models. By developing a theoretical conceptualization of the right-reasoning public health citizenry, the results of this project will serve to reconfigure public health sovereignty and citizenship, and open space for reflection and critical examination of behavioral science expertise in public policy.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.