Collaborative Research: Behavioral Science and the Making of the Right-Reasoning Public Health Citizenry

合作研究：行为科学与正确推理的公共卫生公民的培养

• 批准号: 2341513
• 负责人: Jacob Moses
• 金额: $ 19.67万
• 依托单位: University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-04-01 至 2026-03-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2341513&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Behavioral; Science; Making

This award supports a collaborative research project that investigates how behavioral models in public health produce normative ideas about what it means to be a reasonable public health citizen. Behavioral science plays a pivotal, but understudied, role in shaping public health and policy responses to global health issues. At this critical juncture for both public policy and public health in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the team will investigate the models of moral reasoning and citizenship embedded in public health behavioral science in the U.S. More generally, this research investigates how predictive and explanatory models for public health behavior also create normative models for moral reasoning and public health citizenship. Research findings will be shared in two Science and Technology Studies articles, an article for health policymakers and practitioners, and a commentary written for a public audience. The team will offer substantial training and mentorship to graduate research assistants; convene a practice-based workshop with Master of Public Health students and Master of Public Policy students; and write a pedagogical article about the workshop. This is a project that studies the historical precedents and contemporary practices of behavioral science in public health. The team of researchers on the project will investigate the following research questions: How are normative images of the right-reasoning public health citizenry produced through public health behavioral science? How have these normative images acquired authority in the governance of health? How have these normative images been maintained in the face of resistance to expert authority? The team will employ methods of archival research and document analysis to develop a comparative analysis of principal behavioral models. By developing a theoretical conceptualization of the right-reasoning public health citizenry, the results of this project will serve to reconfigure public health sovereignty and citizenship, and open space for reflection and critical examination of behavioral science expertise in public policy.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该奖项支持一个合作研究项目，该项目调查公共卫生中的行为模型如何产生关于成为一个合理的公共卫生公民意味着什么的规范思想。行为科学在塑造公共卫生和应对全球健康问题的政策方面发挥着关键但尚未得到充分研究的作用。在 COVID-19 大流行之后的公共政策和公共卫生的关键时刻，该团队将研究美国公共卫生行为科学中嵌入的道德推理和公民模型。更广泛地说，这项研究调查了如何预测和预测公共卫生行为的解释模型也为道德推理和公共卫生公民创建了规范模型。研究结果将在两篇科学技术研究文章、一篇为卫生政策制定者和从业者撰写的文章以及一篇为公众撰写的评论中分享。该团队将为研究生研究助理提供大量培训和指导；与公共卫生硕士学生和公共政策硕士学生召开实践研讨会；并写一篇关于研讨会的教学文章。这是一个研究公共卫生行为科学的历史先例和当代实践的项目。该项目的研究人员团队将调查以下研究问题：如何通过公共卫生行为科学产生正确推理的公共卫生公民的规范形象？这些规范形象是如何在健康治理中获得权威的？面对专家权威的抵制，这些规范形象是如何维持的？该团队将采用档案研究和文档分析的方法来对主要行为模型进行比较分析。通过发展正确推理的公共卫生公民的理论概念，该项目的结果将有助于重新配置公共卫生主权和公民权，并为公共政策中行为科学专业知识的反思和批判性审查提供开放空间。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。