Can Pain Studies Influence Regulatory Policy?

The Market for Legislative Influence Over Regulatory Policy

Global health diplomacy: how foreign policy can influence health.

Ilona Kickbusch argues that public health experts need to work with diplomats in order to achieve global health goals.

Can, and should, behavioural neuroscience influence public policy?

Recent years have seen enormous demand amongst policy makers for new insights from the behavioural sciences, especially neuroscience. This demand is matched by an increasing willingness on behalf of behavioural scientists to translate the policy implications of their work. But can neuroscience really help shape the governance of a nation? Or does this represent growing misuse of neuroscience to...

Implications for Regulatory Policy

In this issue... The federal government designs the CRTC's regulatory policies to promote the entry of new firms into the market for wireline local access services using current facilities and technology. Yet the current pace of technological change means that competition cannot be measured simply by counting the number of competitors in the market. What is needed are incentives for firms to in...

On the Science-Policy Bridge: Do Spatial Heat Vulnerability Assessment Studies Influence Policy?

Human vulnerability to heat varies at a range of spatial scales, especially within cities where there can be noticeable intra-urban differences in heat risk factors. Mapping and visualizing intra-urban heat vulnerability offers opportunities for presenting information to support decision-making. For example the visualization of the spatial variation of heat vulnerability has the potential to en...