Author: National Academies of Sciences

Patient-centered, high-quality health care relies on the well-being, health, and safety of health care clinicians. However, alarmingly high rates o...

The Committee on National Statistics of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a 2-day public workshop from Decembe...

Current von Neumann style computing is energy inefficient and bandwidth limited as information is physically shuttled via electrons between process...

Computing in some form touches nearly every aspect of day to day life and is reflected in the ubiquitous use of cell phones, the expansion of autom...

Advance Care Planning(ACP)has long been a staple of caring for people with serious illness. Over its history, it has been defined in different ways...

Retail trade has experienced dramatic changes over the past several decades in the United States, with changes in the types of outlets where goods ...

This Proceedings of a Workshop summarizes the presentations and discussions at the Workshop on the Implications of Convergence for How the National...

The National Science Foundation's National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES), one of the nation's principal statistical agencie...

For the past 17 years, the U.S. National Commission on Mathematics Instruction (USNC/MI) has held workshops with mathematics educators from countri...

The primary function of the intelligence analyst is to make sense of information about the world, but the way analysts do that work will look profo...

Palliative care is the interdisciplinary specialty focused on improving quality of life for people with serious illness and their families. This in...

The field of computer science (CS) is currently experiencing a surge in undergraduate degree production and course enrollments, which is straining ...

The National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) is the primary statistical data collection agency within the U.S. Department of Agriculture (US...

The environment for obtaining information and providing statistical data for policy makers and the public has changed significantly in the past dec...

The global response to COVID-19 has demonstrated the importance of vigilance and preparedness for infectious diseases, particularly influenza. Ther...

The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged the world's preparedness for a respiratory virus event. While the world has been combating COVID-19, seasonal ...

Substance use disorder (SUD) and opioid use disorder are significant public health threats that affect millions of Americans each year. To help add...

Rapid advances in cancer research, the development of new and more sophisticated approaches to diagnostic testing, and the growth in targeted cance...

Closing Evidence Gaps in Clinical Prevention, a new consensus study report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Boa...

Millions of Americans use e-cigarettes. Despite their popularity, little is known about their health effects. Some suggest that e-cigarettes likely...

The National Academies Roundtable on Aligning Incentives for Open Science, established in 2019, has taken on an important role in addressing issues...

Adults age 65 and older make up the fastest-growing segment of the U.S. population. At the same time, the complexity of health care delivery contin...

The Forum on Cyber Resilience of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine hosted the Workshop on Recoverability as a First-Cla...