Schmidt Science Fellows Executive Director, Dr. Megan Wheeler, and the Executive Secretary of the Truman Foundation, Dr. Terry Babcock-Lumish, have explored the importance of interdisciplinarity and engagement between science and society during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic in an opinion article for the San Francisco Chronicle.

“The future needs all the talent we can muster sitting at the table, working together. As we look to emerge from the pandemic, no challenge can now be considered too big to tackle, nor too small to matter.” – Dr. Wheeler and Dr. Babcock-Lumish

The article highlights how barriers between disciplines and between science and policy making have come down. Dr. Wheeler and Dr. Babcock-Lumish call on funders, governments, universities, and scientists to commit to further change to tackle the global challenges within and after the pandemic.

They write: “The future needs all the talent we can muster sitting at the table, working together. As we look to emerge from the pandemic, no challenge can now be considered too big to tackle, nor too small to matter.”

Read the full article on the San Francisco Chronicle website.