Experts in the News

If the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development fails to reach a meaningful breakthrough on the digital tax overhaul, global growth could stall. Public finance fellow Joyce Beebe explained in an article for Law360. 

Congratulations to fellow Quianta Moore, who has been named the first Huffington Fellow in Child Health Policy. The Huffington Foundation gifted the Baker Institute $4 million to endow Moore and advance the institute’s Child Health Policy Program. 

“They’re not huge steps, but they make a big difference in the lives of many, many people,” Tony Payan, director of the Center for the United States and Mexico said of President Biden’s initial actions on immigration.

By doing so, religious leaders can help build trust in vaccines in their communities, said Rice faculty scholar Elaine Howard Ecklund, and can help health authorities consider the ethical questions involved with distributing limited resources.

"Identifying priorities is a good idea for the new administration, but it also needs to focus on growing federal funding for R&D and giving it a higher priority than it has had since the days of Apollo," said Neal Lane, senior fellow in science and technology policy.