74 | Globalizing Evidence-Based Solutions for an Interdependent World

Published: March 16, 2022, 3:59 p.m.

As the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change demonstrate, in an increasingly interdependent world, communities across the globe face shared challenges and need shared solutions. In the latest episode of On the Evidence, Adam Coyne, Chris Boyd, and Respichius Deogratias Mitti discuss the changing role of data and evidence in supporting decisions to improve well-being in a more interconnected world. \n\nCoyne oversaw international research at Mathematica for most of the past two years and currently serves as the company\u2019s chief growth officer. Boyd is the managing director of EDI Global, a data collection and research organization focused on East Africa that became a subsidiary of Mathematica in 2018. Mitti is a country director for EDI Global who lives and works in Tanzania.\n\nA transcript of the episode is available at mathematica.org/blogs/the-globalization-of-evidence-informed-decision-making-in-a-more-interdependent-world\n\nLearn more about Chris Boyd, the managing director of EDI Global, in a recent Q&A for Mathematica\u2019s blog: https://www.mathematica.org/blogs/a-conversation-with-chris-boyd\n\nLearn more about Mathematica\u2019s international research in more than 50 countries across Africa, Asia, and Latin America: https://mathematica.org/focus-areas/international-research\n\nLearn more about Mathematica\u2019s ground-breaking work on studying negative income tax experiments in the United States, which has informed pilot projects in other countries as well as in the U.S. to test the impacts of monthly guaranteed income payments: https://mathematica.org/blogs/idea-that-launched-a-policy-research-revolution