New York State officials and their staffs face immense public policy challenges that involve complex socio-technical and scientific problems. Too often there is a lack of capacity both on the part of policymakers and techno-scientific experts to do the critical work of translating between the language of policy and the language of a particular techno-scientific discipline, let alone synthesizing their meanings in order to improve policy outcomes.
The New York State Science Policy Fellowship transitions PhDs in science, technology, and engineering into high-level public sector roles in New York State’s executive and legislative branches, with the goal of bringing subject matter expertise to New York State leaders and providing those with techno-scientific expertise hands-on experience in policymaking. It supports this goal by providing early career science, technology, and engineering scholars training on how policy is developed and implemented at the state level, and educational programming on the challenges related to the intersection of governance and techno-scientific expertise more broadly.
To learn more about state-level science and technology policy fellowships, see this overview from the National Conference of State Legislatures.
