POLICY AND PRACTICE - Three Sages on Improving Scientific Advice to Government

Published: Feb. 25, 2022, 8:23 a.m.

2022 will see the launch of the long awaited Covid inquiry. One key set of issues will involve the role of scientific advice: how it is gathered, and co-ordinated; how it is fed in to ministers; how uncertain or conflicting advice is handled; how transparent and accountable the whole process is; and how to improve the handling of scientific advice in future.