Author: Board on Health Sciences Policy

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...

An ideal health care system relies on efficiently generating timely, accurate evidence to deliver on its promise of diminishing the divide between ...

BioWatch is an air monitoring system deployed in jurisdictions around the country with the goal of detecting the presence of certain high risk path...

For most Americans, staying mentally sharp as they age is a very high priority. Declines in memory and decision-making abilities may trigger fears ...

The past several decades have been a time of rapid globalization in the development, manufacture, marketing, and distribution of medical products a...

Drug development can be time-consuming and expensive. Recent estimates suggest that, on average, it takes 10 years and at least $1 billion to bring...

On October 17, 2014, spurred by incidents at U.S. government laboratories that raised serious biosafety concerns, the United States government laun...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held a workshop on August 22-23, 2018, in Washington, DC, to explore medical and publ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) established the Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) with a focus on procuring and managing medi...

Psychiatric illnesses - such as major depressive disorder, anxiety disorder, substance use disorder, and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) - are...

The critical importance of using mobile technology is clear to anyone in the health professions, particularly those who treat people with central n...

Individuals in the United States and Americans abroad are exposed to inhalation hazards from a variety of sources, and these hazards can have both ...

Humans are potentially exposed to more than 80,000 toxic chemicals in the environment, yet their impacts on brain health and disease are not well u...