Author: Health and Medicine Division

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

Beginning in 1979 and in each subsequent decades, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has overseen the Healthy People initiative...

Nonhuman primates represent a small fraction of animals used in biomedical research, but they remain important research models due to their similar...

In September 2015, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine hosted a workshop to explore the basic and translational research ...

The National Academies Roundtable on Obesity Solutions hosted an April, July, and October, 2022 workshop series to explore the gaps in knowledge wi...

In recent years, significant progress has been made in the clinical development and use of various types of cancer immunotherapy, all of which rely...