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Children in Sierra Leone require five vaccinations by the age of one, but many parents—especially those who face a five […]
In the latest of its centennial year lecture series, the Social Science Research Council asks “What are the Long-Run and […]
This article is the first in a series celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Social Science Research Council—a New York […]
Through the SSRC’s Mercury Project, a first cohort of 12 teams from 17 countries is tasked with researching locally tailored solutions on how bad health information spreads, how to combat it, how to build stronger information systems, and how to increase COVID-19 vaccination rates.
In a new initiative with an initial $20 million budget, the U.S. National Science Foundation is partnering with the Social Science Research Council to identify and support science research into public health guidance and its impact.
In the wake of the pandemic of suspect “facts” shared about COVID-19, social and behavioral scientists from around the world […]
Eleanor Bernert Sheldon, a pioneer in the use of social indicators as an important tool of social science, died on May 8 at the age of 101.
Anna Harvey, founding director of the Public Safety Lab at New York University, has been named the 15th president of the New York-based Social Science Research Council.
In a time of crisis, it might seem like a necessity to share your data in the hopes it might […]
Reimagining Higher Education is the second event in the Reimagining Social Institutions series of online forums sponsored by the Social Science Research Council and SAGE Publishing.
COVID-19 has illuminated an array of pre-existing inequalities in American society today. “Reimagining Schools” is the first talk in the […]
As part of a pioneering effort to systematically use privacy-protected Facebook data to study the platform’s impact on democracy, the Social Science Research Council and its partner Social Science One have named the inaugural recipients of the Social Media and Democracy Research Grants.
