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The National Academies Roundtable on Population Health Improvement hosted a workshop in February 2022, A Population Health Workforce to Meet 21st C...

The National Academies Forum on Microbial Threats and Forum on Neuroscience and Nervous System Disorders hosted a hybrid public workshop in June 20...

Between 2020-2023, many health systems and organizations created formal positions to improve diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and health equi...

Artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and deep learning (DL) are promising tools that can be used to develop algorithms to better un...

Health literacy, cultural competence, and language access services are distinct but inextricably linked concepts for delivering equitable care to a...

The National Cancer Policy Forum of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held a public workshop, Incorporating Weight Mana...

While much progress has been made on achieving the Millenium Development Goals over the last decade, the number and complexity of global health cha...

The ability to see deeply affects how human beings perceive and interpret the world around them. For most people, eyesight is part of everyday comm...

The U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA) administers the Social Security Disability Insurance program and the Supplemental Security Income pro...

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...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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...