Herding Scientists - A Story of Failed Reform At the CDC

When politicians reshape public health agencies, scientists resist changes and, if possible, leave. Those shifts make it harder for agencies to fight future public health threats. This Element focuses on the tension between scientists and managerial control in the policy process, both conceptually and empirically. It centers on a failed attempt to reorganize the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Because many of the gains in longevity and health quality result from the work of public health agencies, public health scientists and practitioners are the frontline producers of public health.

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. Scientists,managerial control, and reform; 3. Strategic change at the CDC; 4. Reactions to reform efforts; 5. Data on the views of employees; 6. Conclusion: Herding scientists; Bibliography.

Summary

This element helps us better understand how political motives, organizational theories, public problems, and scientific professionalism become entwined in public health.

Product details

• Authors: Andrew B. Whitford, Andrew B. (University of Georgia) Whitford, Whitford Andrew B.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2022
• EAN: 9781108824101
• ISBN: 978-1-108-82410-1
• No. of pages: 75
• Series: Elements in Public Policy
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; HEALTH & FITNESS / Health Care Issues, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, Health economics, LAW / Labor & Employment, LAW / Health, Occupational health and safety law, working time law, Public Health & Safety Law, Public health and safety law, Occupational health & safety law