Scientific Advisory Council

The Scientific Advisory Council (SAC) deliberates and provides consensus recommendations on matters of scientific research and evidence that hold bearing over national and local policy, research development, and program implementation and development.

Primary Goals

1. Share relevant research, tools and active interventions developing in the field, with the Foundation and it’s partners. On a case-by-case basis, they will assess research, tools, and active interventions.

2. Provide scientific recommendations on key initiatives and policy priorities including the advocacy goals of the Coalition to End Social Isolation and Loneliness.

3. Highlight areas of need and opportunities for future research and intervention development.

_{Note: Key initiatives to be directed by the insights of the SAC will be reviewed by a separate ethics panel and a conflict of interest policy will be developed in concordance with existing federal statute, rules and regulations.}

Featured Projects

FEATURED PROJECT Gravity Project

Serving as official subject matter experts on the social isolation and loneliness portfolio under the of the HL7 Gravity Project.

FEATURED PROJECT Commit to Connect

Evaluating interventions to be included under the Administration for Community Living’s Commit to Connect program.

FEATURED PROJECT Surgeon General’s Advisory

We would like to acknowledge and thank Foundation for Social Connection Scientific Chair, Dr. Julianne Holt-Lunstad, who served as Lead Scientific Editor of the Advisory, and to our Scientific Council members and staff who contributed as Advisory reviewers for the Office of the Surgeon General.