Institutional boundaries and the challenges of aligning science advice and policy dynamics: the UK and Canada in the time of COVID-19

This comparison of institutions of science advice during COVID-19 between the Westminster systems of England/UK and Ontario/Canada focuses on the role of science in informing public policy in two central components of the response to the pandemic: the adoption of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NP...

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Published in:Health economics, policy and law policy and law, 2023-10, Vol.18 (4), p.377-394
Main Authors: Tuohy, Carolyn Hughes, Bevan, Gwyn, Brown, Adalsteinn D.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Accountability
Advisors
Canada - epidemiology
COVID-19
COVID-19 - epidemiology
COVID-19 vaccines
Decision making
Disease transmission
England
Government
Health care policy
Health economics
Humans
Pandemics
Peers
Public Policy
Science
Scientists
Special Issue: On the roof top of health policy change: overlooking 21 years of the European Health Policy Group
Vaccines
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Summary:This comparison of institutions of science advice during COVID-19 between the Westminster systems of England/UK and Ontario/Canada focuses on the role of science in informing public policy in two central components of the response to the pandemic: the adoption of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) and the procuring of vaccines. It compares and contrasts established and purpose-built bodies with varying degrees of independence from the political executive, and shows how each attempted to manage the tensions between scientific and governmental logics of accountability as they negotiated the boundary between science and policy. It uses the comparison to suggest potential lessons about the relative merits and drawbacks of different institutional arrangements for science advice to governments in an emergency.
ISSN:1744-1331
1744-134X
1744-134X
DOI:10.1017/S1744133123000221