Author: Board on Global Health

Globalization is rapidly changing lives and industries around the world. Drug development, authorization, and regulatory supervision have become in...

Despite being preventable and curable since the middle of the twentieth century, tuberculosis (TB) has long persisted as the world's deadliest infe...

To take stock of lessons learned from COVID-19 around the world and in the United States, the Forum on Microbial Threats held two virtual workshops...

Despite the integral contribution of oral health to general health status, it continues to be treated as a marginalized and less important practice...

With the amount of data in the world exploding, big data could generate significant value in the field of infectious disease. The increased use of ...

When, in late 2011, it became public knowledge that two research groups had submitted for publication manuscripts that reported on their work on ma...

The Evidence for Violence Prevention Across the Lifespan and Around the World is the summary of a workshop convened in January 2013 by the Institut...

Elder Abuse and Its Prevention is the summary of a workshop convened in April 2013 by the Institute of Medicine's Forum on Global Violence Preventi...

Individually and collectively, resident microbes play important roles in host health and survival. Shaping and shaped by their host environments, t...

Every year, public and private funders spend many billions of dollars on large-scale, complex, multi-national health initiatives. The only way to k...

Modern transportation allows people, animals, and plantsand the pathogens they carryto travel more easily than ever before. The ease and speed of t...

In 2007 and 2008, the world witnessed a dramatic increase in food prices. The global financial crisis that began in 2008 compounded the burden of h...

The urban built environment is a prime setting for microbial transmission, because just as cities serve as hubs for migration and international tra...

SMART VaccinesStrategic Multi-Attribute Ranking Tool for Vaccinesis a prioritization software tool developed by the Institute of Medicine that util...

An adequate, well-trained, and diverse health care workforce is essential for providing access to quality health care services. However, despite mo...

To examine the science, policy, and practice surrounding supporting family and community investments in young children globally and children in acu...

Beginning with the germ theory of disease in the 19th century and extending through most of the 20th century, microbes were believed to live their ...

At the request of Congress, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) will evaluate U.S. global programs to address HIV/AIDS. This book outlines the IOM's st...

On November 13 and 14, 2018, members of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Global Forum on Innovation in Health Profes...

A 2010 IOM report, Promoting Cardiovascular Health in the Developing World, found that not only is it possible to reduce the burden of cardiovascul...

Violence against women and children is a serious public health concern, with costs at multiple levels of society. Although violence is a threat to ...

Years of using, misusing, and overusing antibiotics and other antimicrobial drugs has led to the emergence of multidrug-resistant 'superbugs.' The ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in collaboration with the InterAcademy Partnership and the European Academies Science...

To draw attention to health determinants and health inequities among populations that live in urban environments and to explore challenges faced in...

In September 2015, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were adopted at the United Nations Development Summit to serve as a 15-year plan of act...

With the worst human refugee crisis since World War II as the backdrop, from March 16 through March 18, 2016, the National Academies of Sciences, E...

A planning committee convened by the Forum on Microbial Threats of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held a virtual wor...

On June 11 and June 12, 2019, the National Academies convened a workshop to explore the growing understanding of how the interplay between humans a...

On December 4-5, 2019, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held a 1.5-day public workshop titled Exploring the Frontiers ...

The lack of a clear and consistent definition for Long COVID presents challenges for policymakers, researchers, public health professionals, clinic...

Over the past several decades, the public and private sectors made significant investments in global health, leading to meaningful changes for many...

In September 2014, the Global Forum on Innovation in Health Professional Education and the Forum on Public-Private Partnerships for Global Health a...

The twentieth century witnessed an era of unprecedented, large-scale, anthropogenic changes to the natural environment. Understanding how environme...

The Cost of Inaction for Young Children Globally is the summary of a workshop hosted by the Institute of Medicine Forum on Investing in Young Child...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is responsible for preventing the introduction, transmission, and spread of communicable ...

Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) afflict more than 1.4 billion people, many of whom live on less than $1.25 a day. While there are effective ways...

The World Health Organization defines the social determinants of health as the conditions in which people are born, grow, work, live, and age, and ...

To explore value proposition for different sectors that engage in global health - including industry, government, philanthropy, and civil society -...

The global response to COVID-19 has demonstrated the importance of vigilance and preparedness for infectious diseases, particularly influenza. Ther...

The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged the world's preparedness for a respiratory virus event. While the world has been combating COVID-19, seasonal ...

During the COVID-19 pandemic, health professionals adapted, innovated, and accelerated in order to meet the needs of students, patients, and the co...

Microbial threats, including endemic and emerging infectious diseases and antimicrobial resistance, can cause not only substantial health consequen...

The onset of COVID-19 pandemic and inundation of the U.S. health care system emphasized infrastructural and health professional education vulnerabi...

H1N1 (swine flu), SARS, mad cow disease, and HIV/AIDS are a few examples of zoonotic diseases-diseases transmitted between humans and animals. Zoon...

As of 2017, the emergence and spread of antimicrobial resistance continues unabated around the world, leaving devastating health and economic outco...