Responsibility for children is scattered across portfolios, including social services, education, health and Indigenous affairs.
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We considered many different explanations for why some dialogue processes were more successful than others.
AI policy development is not a neutral or technical process but a political one.
Everything from the Voice to Country Road homewares is talking about ‘co-design’. New research identifies three clear ways to improve the way it works in education.
Despite a huge investment in preschool funding, school readiness scores have remained flat for more than a decade.
The African evidence community has built strong relationships across traditional boundaries. This has allowed researchers to mobilise quickly and effectively to improve policy outcomes.
Governments must take urgent action to prevent noncommunicable diseases from becoming an uncontrollable epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa. Sugar-sweetened beverage taxation offers a potential solution.
Without reliable, local and timely data, countries will miss the potential of sugar-sweetened beverage taxation as a public health intervention.
Tension between the government’s economic and public health priorities is preventing stronger fiscal measures to address nutrition-related noncommunicable diseases.
Reversing the year-long trend all comes down to good policymaking, driven by data and research.
In 1974, Congress invented the reconciliation process to reduce deficits. More recently, reconciliation has been used in ways that increase the deficit. A public policy scholar explains the process.
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Professor and Programme Director, SA MRC Centre for Health Economics and Decision Science - PRICELESS SA (Priority Cost Effective Lessons in Systems Strengthening South Africa), University of the Witwatersrand
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Postdoctoral fellow, Johns Hopkins University
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Researcher, SAMRC/Centre for Health Economics and Decision Science- PRICELESS SA, University of the Witwatersrand
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University of Johannesburg
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Professor, Principal Research Fellow & Deputy Head of School, School of Education, The University of Queensland
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Professor: Evidence-Informed Decision-Making, University of Johannesburg
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Senior Manager: Operations and Research Associate, University of Johannesburg
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Professor, Texas A&M University; Professorial Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Professor, Faculty of Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor, Texas A&M University; Professorial Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Fellow, University of Galway
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Associate Professor of Social Innovation, University of Cape Town
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Professor, University of Cape Town
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Adjunct Professor, Stellenbosch University
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Professor of Public Policy (retired), University of Virginia