US federal government response to the hurricanes was larger and faster in Texas and Florida than in Puerto Rico.

Submitted by Carlos De Leon on 12 February 2019 - 4:47am

Researchers from the Department of Health Management and Policy from the University of Michigan School of Public Health in collaboration with the Department of Political Science from the University of Utah published a study quantifying and comparing the US federal disaster response to the 2017 hurricanes that affected Texas (Harvey), Florida (Irma) and Puerto Rico (Maria). They analyzed the response during the first 6 months after the hurricanes made landfall in the study published in the peer-reviewed scientific journal BMJ Global Health.

Increasing Concerns About Appointments to the Board of Directors of the Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics

Submitted by Carlos De Leon and Zulmarie Perez Horta on 10 January 2019 - 7:20pm

The Puerto Rico Science Policy Action Network (PR-SPAN) and CienciaPR, the largest network of Puerto Rican scientists in the world, is echoing the concerns expressed by the American Statistical Association and the Association of Economists of Puerto Rico about recent appointments to the Board of Directors of the Puerto Rico Institute of Statistics and how these threaten the autonomy and integrity of the agency.