Author: Board on Health Sciences Policy

Behavioral health conditions, which include mental health and substance use disorders, affect approximately 20 percent of Americans. Of those with ...

Disasters tend to cross political, jurisdictional, functional, and geographic boundaries. As a result, disasters often require responses from multi...

Traumatic brain injuries (TBI) affect millions of Americans each year, causing symptoms that can be debilitating and long-lasting and resulting in ...

Personal protective equipment (PPE) is a critical part of infection prevention and health care worker (HCW) protection. The COVID-19 pandemic revea...

Problems contacting emergency services and delayed assistance are not unusual when incidents occur in rural areas, and the consequences can be deva...

Advances in trauma care have accelerated over the past decade, spurred by the significant burden of injury from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. B...

Mental, neurological, and substance use (MNS) disorders have a substantial impact on global health and well-being. Disorders such as depression, al...

The workshop summarized in this report was organized as part of a study sponsored by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration ...

In February 2016, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held a workshop to explore options for expanding the Substance Abus...

Major depressive disorder (MDD) is recognized worldwide as a major cause of disability, morbidity, and mortality. According to the World Health Org...

The 20142015 Ebola epidemic in western Africa was the longest and most deadly Ebola epidemic in history, resulting in 28,616 cases and 11,310 death...

At the request of the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response, the National Academies convened a committee to examine lessons learne...

During natural disasters, disease pandemics, terrorist attacks, and other public health emergencies, the health system must be prepared to accommod...

Living independently and participating in one's community are priorities for many people. In many regions across the United States, there are progr...

Following the attacks of September 11, 2001 and the anthrax letters, the ability to detect biological threats as quickly as possible became a top p...

Although it is becoming increasingly more common for clinicians to use genomic data in their practices for disease prevention, diagnosis, and treat...

The use and misuse of antibiotics contributes to the rise in drug-resistant bacteria - a serious and worsening threat to human health. The developm...

When disaster strikes, it rarely impacts just one jurisdiction. Many catastrophic disaster plans include support from neighboring jurisdictions tha...

The nurse workforce constitutes the largest sector of health professionals in the United States and includes individuals with varying educational b...

Multimodal therapy approaches that combine interventions aimed at different aspects of disease are emerging as potentialand perhaps essentialways t...

Data sharing can accelerate new discoveries by avoiding duplicative trials, stimulating new ideas for research, and enabling the maximal scientific...

Breast cancer remains the most common invasive cancer among women. The primary patients of breast cancer are adult women who are approaching or hav...

Health information technology is providing patients, clinicians, and researchers with access to data that will enable novel approaches to science a...

Health systems and assets are a large part of the critical infrastructure of any community and are vital not only for the safety and well-being of ...

Neurodegeneration: Exploring Commonalities Across Diseases is the summary of a workshop hosted by the Institute of Medicine's (IOM's) Forum on Neur...

Emerging infectious disease threats that may not have available treatments or vaccines can directly affect the security of the world's health since...

Many health care providers do not have either the knowledge or the tools they need in order to apply genetic information in their day-to-day practi...