HOT TOPIC is a series of occasional featured issue briefs written by COSSA staff offering insights into timely and crosscutting policy developments affecting the social and behavioral science community.

JULY 2021: Competing Visions: The NSF for the Future Act and the U.S. Innovation and Competition Act

OCTOBER 2020: Research Security Revisited: COVID-19 & Immigration

JANUARY 2020: Foreign Interference in the U.S. Research Enterprise & Policy Responses

OCTOBER 2017: New NIH “Clinical Trials” Definition to Impact Basic Social and Behavioral Science Research

JANUARY 2017: HHS Announces Final Changes to Human Subjects Research Regulations

AUGUST 2016: Reducing the Regulatory Burden on Federally-Funded Researchers

JUNE 2015: Scientific Organizations Reflect on Building “Trust in Science”