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Challenges to Evidence-Informed Decision-Making in the Context of Pandemics: The Case of COVID-19

2021-11-25

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Background: Evidence-informed decision-making (EIDM), while implied by name to be “science-led”, is not always a clear and straightforward approach to policy making. This is especially pronounced during pandemics when rapidly evolving research continues to emerge and when decision-makers are faced with policy decisions that are reliant upon emerging, incomplete, or inconsistent evidence. Based on interviews with e...

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DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3971551

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