Author: Board on Global Health

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...