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Student wellbeing is foundational to academic success. One recent survey of postsecondary educators found that nearly 80 percent believed emotional...

On December 5, 2019, the Roundtable on Population Health Improvement of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a wo...

Over the past century, the work of chemical engineers has helped transform societies and the lives of individuals, from the synthetic fertilizers t...

Influenza viruses, both seasonal and pandemic, have the potential to disrupt the health and well-being of populations around the world. The global ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare the fragility of the global system of preparedness and response to pandemics and the fragmentation of our resea...

On June 13-14, 2018, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a multistakeholder workshop to examine the transitions ...

The U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA) provides disability benefits through the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) and Supplemental...

High-entropy materials, ultra-strong molecules, and nanoelectronics have become a focus of active research because of their unique potential and ap...

The opioid overdose epidemic combined with the need to reduce the burden of acute pain poses a public health challenge. To address how evidence-bas...

Human trafficking has many names and can take many forms - pimp control, commercial sex, exploitation, forced labor, modern slavery, child labor, a...

Beginning in October 2017, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine organized a set of workshops designed to gather informatio...

Beginning in October 2017, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine organized a set of workshops designed to gather informatio...

Beginning in October 2017, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine organized a set of workshops designed to gather informatio...

Opioid use and infectious diseases are intertwined epidemics. Despite the fact that the United States is more than two decades into the opioid cris...

Almost 25 years have passed since the Demography of Aging (1994) was published by the National Research Council. Future Directions for the Demograp...

Improvised explosive devices (IEDs) are a type of unconventional explosive weapon that can be deployed in a variety of ways, and can cause loss of ...

The increasingly diverse ethnic composition of the United States population has created a profound and ongoing demographic shift, and public health...

The U.S. Department of State, through its Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL), provides foreign assistance and supp...

This Proceedings of a Workshop summarizes the presentations and discussions at the Workshop on Improving Consent and Response in Longitudinal Studi...

The field of health literacy has evolved from one focused on individuals to one that recognizes that health literacy is multidimensional. While com...

Delivering high-quality cancer care to all patients presents numerous challenges, including difficulties with care coordination and access. Patient...

The Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA) provides disability compensation to veterans with a service-connected injury, and to receive disability ...

The persistent trends in suicide necessitate action among mental health care providers and payers, researchers, and community leaders. Health care ...

To explore issues related to the effects of disasters on children and youth and lessons learned from experiences during previous disasters, the vir...

Training police in the knowledge and skills necessary to support the rule of law and protect the public is a substantial component of the activitie...

Offshore wind energy development is poised to expand rapidly across the U.S. Outer Continental Shelf over the next decade, as part of a government-...

Immunization against disease is among the most successful global health efforts of the modern era, and substantial gains in vaccination coverage ra...

The opioid epidemic, now several decades in the making, continues to cause pain and suffering for millions of Americans. Each year, thousands of in...

To explore various aspects of faculty development, the Global Forum on Innovation in Health Professional Education of the National Academies of Sci...

The Food and Nutrition Board of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a virtual workshop series that gathered rese...

To facilitate scientific progress and collaboration while also protecting personal privacy, the integrity of research investments, and national sec...

The National Academies Food Forum hosted a public workshop in August 2023 that explored the state of the science on the linkages between dietary pa...

Starting in early childhood, children are capable of learning sophisticated science and engineering concepts and engage in disciplinary practices. ...

A planning committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a series of three hybrid workshops to examine the ke...

Nursing homes play a unique dual role in the long-term care continuum, serving as a place where people receive needed health care and a place they ...

Social media has been fully integrated into the lives of most adolescents in the U.S., raising concerns among parents, physicians, public health of...

A National Academies committee hosted a public workshop series in 2023. Speakers invited by the committee discussed the current state of racial and...

Fisheries are essential to the global economy and feed billions around the world; they, support individuals and communities, and sustain cultural h...

Facial recognition technology is increasingly used for identity verification and identification, from aiding law enforcement investigations to iden...

Experiencing poverty during childhood can lead to lasting harmful effects that compromise not only children's health and welfare but can also hinde...

The Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) is one of the U.S. Census Bureau's major surveys with features making it a uniquely valuable ...

Antarctica hosts some of the harshest and most remote environments on Earth - and it is a region of vital importance for scientific research. The e...

Although much research has been conducted on community-level factors related to the risk of dementia in general, less is known about the factors th...

In the United States, some populations suffer from far greater disparities in health than others. Those disparities are caused not only by fundamen...

Existing systems are not prepared to provide the mental health care services needed by the growing population of older adults. The National Academi...

The National Academies National Cancer Policy Forum hosted a Summer 2022 workshop to explore the current state of knowledge regarding risk factors ...