Author: Engineering

Seafood--including marine and freshwater fish, mollusks, and crustaceans--is a healthy food choice, but it can also contain contaminants. It is cur...

A National Academies committee was tasked with identifying essential health care services for women related to intimate partner violence (IPV) duri...

Between 1980 and mid-2023, 232 billion-dollar disasters occurred in the U.S. Gulf Coast region, with the number of disasters doubling annually sinc...

To examine the potential role of companion animals as sentinels of relevant, shared environmental exposures that may affect human aging and cancer,...

The loss of hearing - be it gradual or acute, mild or severe, present since birth or acquired in older age - can have significant effects on one's ...

The staggering number of deaths and emergency department visits caused by firearm injuries has only grown with time. Costs associated with firearm ...

Approximately 7.4 million people in the United States live with an intellectual or developmental disability (IDD), defined by the Centers for Disea...

Adolescence is a crucial period of life for the prevention of substance use disorders. Research has shown that early intervention can significantly...

Environmental research has driven landmark improvements that led to the protection of human and ecosystem health. Recognizing the value of knowledg...

In October 2016, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Roundtable on Population Health Improvement hosted a workshop to e...

Over the past several decades, the public and private sectors made significant investments in global health, leading to meaningful changes for many...

Recent disclosures about the bulk collection of domestic phone call records and other signals intelligence programs have stimulated widespread deba...

The U.S. population is aging. Social Security projections suggest that between 2013 and 2050, the population aged 65 and over will almost double, f...

Addressing climate change is essential and possible, and it offers a host of benefits - from better public health to new economic opportunities. Th...

'Long COVID' refers to the wide range of long-lasting symptoms experienced by some patients after a SARS-CoV-2 infection. The most common symptoms ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted existing weaknesses in the United States health care system, while creating a new set of challenges related t...

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is responsible for preventing the introduction, transmission, and spread of communicable ...

The delivery of high quality and equitable care for both mothers and newborns is complex and requires efforts across many sectors. The United State...

Firearm injuries and death are a serious public health concern in the United States. Firearm-related injuries account for tens of thousands of prem...

Even as the U.S. population becomes steadily more diverse, minorities and women remain underrepresented in clinical trials to develop new drugs and...

Does the public trust science? Scientists? Scientific organizations? What roles do trust and the lack of trust play in public debates about how sci...

On July 15-17, 2012 the United States National Commission on Mathematics Instruction and Seoul National University held a joint Korea-U.S. workshop...

In an era of promising advances in cancer research, there are considerable and even alarming gaps in the fundamental knowledge and understanding of...

Since the 2014 Ebola outbreak many public- and private-sector leaders have seen a need for improved management of global public health emergencies....

As the nation's economic activities, security concerns, and stewardship of natural resources become increasingly complex and globally interrelated,...

Speech and language are central to the human experience; they are the vital means by which people convey and receive knowledge, thoughts, feelings,...

Bullying has long been tolerated as a rite of passage among children and adolescents. There is an implication that individuals who are bullied must...

The primary human activities that release carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere are the combustion of fossil fuels (coal, natural gas, and oil) ...

Students, parents, and government agencies need as much information as possible about the outcomes of the higher education experience and the exten...

To derive statistics about crime to estimate its levels and trends, assess its costs to and impacts on society, and inform law enforcement approac...

In 2005, the National Research Council report Rising Above the Gathering Storm recommended a new way for the federal government to spur technologic...

The Workshop on Integrating New Measures of Trauma into the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's (SAMHSA) Data Collection Pr...

The 21st century has witnessed a complete revolution in the understanding and description of bacteria in eco- systems and microbial assemblages, an...

To safeguard public health, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) must keep abreast of new scientific information and emerging technologies ...

Over the past several decades, fertility rates have fallen substantially in low- and middle-income countries, and efforts to limit fertility, prima...