Science Policy and the ASA

摘要

Sallie Keller-McNulty established the ASA's Science Policy Task Force (SPTF) in 2006, when she was president of the association. The task force's charge was twofold: (1) investigate the feasibility of the ASA formally entering the science policy arena (i.e., providing input to decisionmakers on matters that affect science and technology of national and global interest for which our discipline may speak with authority) and, if feasible, develop a plan and justification for such action; and (2) extend ASA activities in public policy, particularly in the science policy arena, so the ASA can exert greater influence on national research directions.