94 | Christina Ciocca Eller on White House Year of Evidence for Action

On the Evidence

Episode 94 of On the Evidence is the second installment in a new occasional series on the show called Evidence in Government, where guests talk about new developments in the halls of government and the role that evidence can or should play in decisions that could improve people’s lives. On this episode, Christina Ciocca Eller talks about a recent push at the White House to accelerate the comingling of research and public policy to improve the lives of the American people. Ciocca Eller is an assistant professor of sociology and social studies at Harvard University who previously served as the assistant director for evidence and policy in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy under the Biden-Harris Administration. In that role, she co-led the White House’s Year of Evidence for Action initiative. Following the one-year anniversary of the Year of Evidence for Action, Ciocca Eller and Mathematica’s Mike Burns discuss what motivated the White House’s intensified focus on data, evidence, and science in the federal government; what the effort achieved; and what’s next in the movement to embed evidence in decision making. A full transcript of the episode is available at mathematica.org/blogs/former-biden-harris-administration-official-christina-ciocca-eller-on-turning-evidence-into-action