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Accepted Paper:
From the lancet to duterte: how COVID-19 scientific articles figured in policy and public discourse in the Philippines
Gideon Lasco
(University of the Philippines)
Drawing inspiration from STS insights on the coproduction of knowledge and expertise, this paper follows and critically analyzes how three particular articles from The Lancet figured in COVID-19 policy and public discourse in the Philippines.
Long abstract:
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, political leaders and public health institutions alike invoked ‘science’ and ‘evidence’ in their responses, and while knowledge translation is a vibrant field of scholarship, little research has been done to actually describe and analyze how specific products of knowledge (i.e. publications) find their way to policy and public discourse. Drawing inspiration from STS insights on the coproduction of knowledge and expertise, this paper addresses this gap by identifying three specific papers from The Lancet that were invoked by various political and public health actors in the Philippines to justify - or criticize - government responses to the pandemic. Taken together, the case studies reveal that the use of the scientific literature has been selective, and whenever they are actually invoked for policy, their meanings and implications were mediated by and coproduced by local health experts, academics, journalists, government officials, as well as the multiple efficacies and outcomes of the policies themselves.