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...