How Research Influences Policy: The Evidence We Need to 'Speak Truth to Power'--A Reflection on an AAHE Scholar Address Three Decades on

Thirty years after expressing concerns about the translation and communication of science to the public and to policy makers, this reflection finds that the same issues face public health education perhaps even more urgently today with the advent of politicians who actively dispute science, and a public that has voted in support of their campaign promises to repeal and replace laws that provided health care and protection from global warming.