Author: Engineering

People spend the vast majority of their time inside their homes and other indoor environments where they are exposed to a wide range of chemicals f...

The decennial census is foundational to the functioning of American democracy, and maintaining the public's trust in the census and its resulting d...

Estimates indicate that as many as 1 in 4 Americans will experience a mental health problem or will misuse alcohol or drugs in their lifetimes. The...

No person or place is immune from disasters or disaster-related losses. Infectious disease outbreaks, acts of terrorism, social unrest, or financia...

The scientific work of women is often viewed through a national or regional lens, but given the growing worldwide connectivity of most, if not all,...

The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program is one of the largest examples of U.S. public-private partnerships, and was established in 19...

Many factors contribute to variability in Earth's climate on a range of timescales, from seasons to decades. Natural climate variability arises fro...

The future competitiveness of the United States in an increasingly interconnected global economy depends on the nation fostering a workforce with s...

Over the past decade there has been a growing interest in sustainability education in colleges and universities across the United States, with a ma...

Systematic review - a scientific investigation that focuses on a specific question and uses explicit, prespecified scientific methods to identify,...

While progress has been made in the development of decarbonization technologies, much work remains in scale-up and deployment. For decarbonization ...

The social determinants of mental health involve the economic, social, and political conditions into which one is born that influence a person's me...

Recognizing the potential design complexities and ethical issues associated with clinical trials for gene therapies, the Forum on Regenerative Medi...

Since its founding in 1982, the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program has become the largest and most comprehensive public research and...

Although the general public in the United States assumes children to be generally healthy and thriving, a substantial and growing number of childre...

The U.S. Gulf Coast provides a valuable setting to study deeply connected natural and human interactions and feedbacks that have led to a complex, ...

Water of appropriate quantity and quality is essential for drinking, sanitation, and food, energy, and industrial production for any society and is...

Exposures at low doses of radiation, generally taken to mean doses below 100 millisieverts, are of primary interest for setting standards for prote...

Because of the individualized nature of drug and therapeutic treatments, clinical trials require participants who represent the diversity of the pa...

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

In September 2015, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a two-day workshop on evolving paradigms for design and m...

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

The National Academies Global Forum on Innovations in Health Professional Education held a public workshop in November 2023. Speakers explored how ...

The extraction of mineral resources provides the raw materials necessary to produce the products and technologies on which the global economy depen...

To explore the current and future state of serious illness care research, the National Academies Roundtable on Quality Care for People with Serious...

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

The convergence of imaging, pathology, and laboratory testing data, augmented with information technology, is referred to as integrated diagnostics...

The United States is an important food producer globally, in part because of its abundance of agriculturally productive soils. However, management ...

The ocean is central to the health of the planet and the well-being of human societies, but ongoing depletion, disruption, and pollution threaten i...

Patients living with and beyond cancer often require care from a wide range of clinicians as they navigate cancer diagnosis, treatment, and survivo...

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

Report of a Workshop on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Workforce Needs for the U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. De...