How to Write a Policy Brief
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this comprehensive and engaging course, you will be able to:
- Discuss the primary goals of writing a policy brief
- Differentiate between advocacy briefs, objective briefs, and evidence briefs
- Identify the 9 key audiences of a policy brief
- Select an important issue to cover in a policy brief and frame it properly
- Write and format the 8 core parts of an effective policy brief
- List 7 methods of disseminating your policy brief to maximize engagement
- Avoid the 8 most common mistakes made when writing a policy brief
Instructor
Paul M. Sutter, PhD is Research Professor of Astrophysics at Stony Brook University, Guest Researcher at the Flatiron Institute in New York City, and contributing editor to Forbes, Space.com, and LiveScience, where his articles are syndicated to CBS News, Scientific American, and MSN, amongst others. Author of over 60 peer-reviewed articles as well as 2 books (published by Prometheus Books and Pegasus Books), he received his PhD in Physics as Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellow at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign before completing post-doctoral fellowships in France at the Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris and in Italy at the Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste. Since this time, Dr. Sutter has developed one of the most popular astrophysics podcasts in the world and has delivered over 100 conference presentations, seminars, and colloquia at prestigious institutions across the globe. A go-to expert for journalists and producers, he regularly appears on television, radio, and in print, including on the Discovery Channel, History Channel, Science Channel, and Weather Channel.
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