National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Health and Medicine Division, Board on Global Health, Board on Health Sciences Policy, Committee on Examining the Working Definition for Long COVID, Ilana Goldowitz, Tequam W
The lack of a clear and consistent definition for Long COVID presents challenges for policymakers, researchers, public health professionals, clinicians, support services, and patients. As such, the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Respo...Lasīt vairāk
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Health and Medicine Division, Board on Health Sciences Policy, Board on Global Health, Committee on The Evidence Base for Lyme Infection-Associated Chronic Illnesses
Around 10-20 of people who contract Lyme disease, the most common tickborne disease in the U.S., develop persistent, often debilitating symptoms such as chronic pain, fatigue, and cognitive dysfunction. Lyme infection-associated chronic illnesses (...Lasīt vairāk
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Health and Medicine Division, Board on Global Health, Forum on Microbial Threats, Anna Nicholson, Taylor Windmiller, Elizabeth Ashby Guo
Advances in genome sequencing technologies, like next-generation sequencing, provide powerful tools that have vastly improved the detection and classification of pathogens and disease outbreaks and support data-driven public health responses. In Jul...Lasīt vairāk
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Health and Medicine Division, Board on Global Health, Global Forum on Innovation in Health Professional Education, Erin Hammers Forstag, Patricia A. Cuff
The National Academies Global Forum on Innovation in Health Professional Education hosted a hybrid public workshop in March 2024 to consider the use of admissions strategies for ensuring a sustainable, high-quality workforce that is adequately staff...Lasīt vairāk
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Health and Medicine Division, Board on Global Health, Forum on Microbial Threats, Robert Pool, Claire Biffl, Elizabeth Ashby
Arboviruses, or viruses carried by arthropods like mosquitoes or ticks, are responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths worldwide each year. As the climate changes globally, the geographic distribution of these diseases, including Zika, dengue,...Lasīt vairāk
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Health and Medicine Division, Board on Global Health, Global Forum on Innovation in Health Professional Education, Patricia Cuff, Maartje Wouters
In February 2024, the National Academies Global Forum on Innovation in Health Professional Education co-hosted a public workshop with Penn Dental Medicine to explore value proposition for oral health promotion and disease prevention. Experts from ar...Lasīt vairāk
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Health and Medicine Division, Board on Health Care Services, Board on Global Health, Allison Boman, Adrienne Formentos, Ruth Cooper
With recent medical, technological, and socioeconomic developments, people are living longer. The rising average age of the worlds population presents an opportunity to develop health policy that prioritizes functioning as a goal of healthy aging....Lasīt vairāk
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Health and Medicine Division, Board on Global Health, Global Forum on Innovation in Health Professional Education, Board on Health Care Services, National Cancer Po
Patients living with and beyond cancer often require care from a wide range of clinicians as they navigate cancer diagnosis, treatment, and survivorship care. To examine opportunities to improve equitable access to high-quality multispecialty and mu...Lasīt vairāk
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Policy and Global Affairs, Health and Medicine Division, U.S. Science and Innovation Policy, Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, Board on Health
Despite advances over the past several decades, the clinical trials enterprise has struggled to meet the needs of an increasingly diverse U.S. population. To help address this issue, a 2023 National Academies workshop sought to identify the expertis...Lasīt vairāk
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Health and Medicine Division, Board on Global Health, Board on Health Sciences Policy, Committee on Examining the Working Definition for Long COVID, Ilana Goldowitz, Tequam W
The lack of a clear and consistent definition for Long COVID presents challenges for policymakers, researchers, public health professionals, clinicians, support services, and patients. As such, the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Respo...Lasīt vairāk
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Health and Medicine Division, Board on Global Health, Global Forum on Innovation in Health Professional Education, Erin Hammers Forstag, Patricia A. Cuff
The National Academies Global Forum on Innovations in Health Professional Education held a public workshop in November 2023. Speakers explored how health professional educators and providers with health systems science (HSS) training can prepare lea...Lasīt vairāk
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Division on Earth and Life Studies, Health and Medicine Division, Board on Life Sciences, Board on Global Health, Board on Health Sciences Policy, Committee on t
At the request of the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response, the National Academies convened a committee to examine lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic and mpox multi-country outbreak to inform an evaluation of the state of s...Lasīt vairāk
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Health and Medicine Division, Board on Health Sciences Policy, Board on Global Health, Forum on Neuroscience and Nervous System Disorders, Forum on Microbial Threat
The National Academies Forum on Microbial Threats and Forum on Neuroscience and Nervous System Disorders hosted a hybrid public workshop in June 2023 to explore opportunities to advance research and treatment of infection-associated chronic illnesse...Lasīt vairāk
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Health and Medicine Division, Board on Global Health, Global Forum on Innovation in Health Professional Education, Erin Hammers Forstag, Patricia A. Cuff
The National Academies Global Forum on Innovation in Health Professional Education hosted a multi-day workshop series in March and April 2023 to explore the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) in health professions education. Speakers at the w...Lasīt vairāk
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Health and Medicine Division, Board on Global Health, Global Forum on Innovation in Health Professional Education, Marian Flaxman, Melissa Maitin-Shepard, Patricia A. Cuff
Despite the integral contribution of oral health to general health status, it continues to be treated as a marginalized and less important practice of health care. Minimizing its importance begins with how U.S. dental professionals are educated. The...Lasīt vairāk
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Health and Medicine Division, Board on Global Health, Global Forum on Innovation in Health Professional Education, Erin Hammers Forstag, Patricia A. Cuff
The National Academies Global Forum on Innovation in Health Professional Education hosted a Fall 2022 workshop series to explore the various needs of an aging population and an ideal health workforce with the numbers and skillset to match those need...Lasīt vairāk
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Health and Medicine Division, Board on Health Sciences Policy, Board on Global Health, Forum on Microbial Threats, Forum on Medical and Public Health Preparedness f
The use and misuse of antibiotics contributes to the rise in drug-resistant bacteria - a serious and worsening threat to human health. The development and use of rapid point-of-care diagnostics in the healthcare setting plays an important role in av...Lasīt vairāk
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Health and Medicine Division, Board on Global Health, Forum on Microbial Threats, Tamara Haag, Anna Nicholson, Elizabeth Ashby
Antifungal use in plant agriculture is a widespread practice necessary to safeguard food safety and security. While the impact of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a significant global health concern, knowledge gaps exist surrounding antifungal resi...Lasīt vairāk
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Health and Medicine Division, Division on Earth and Life Studies, Board on Life Sciences, Board on Global Health, Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology
Ecosystems form the foundation upon which society can survive and thrive, providing food, water, air, materials, and recreation. These connections between people and their environments are under stress from human-driven climate change, pollution, re...Lasīt vairāk
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Health and Medicine Division, Board on Global Health, Global Forum on Innovation in Health Professional Education, Erin Hammers Forstag, Patricia A. Cuff
Implementation science bridges the gap between research and medical practice, investigating aspects of practice and pedagogy that make the strategies successful for future use. By introducing and training leaders, faculty, and health workforce rese...Lasīt vairāk
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Health and Medicine Division, Board on Global Health, Global Forum on Innovation in Health Professional Education, Erin Hammers Forstag, Patricia A. Cuff
The onset of COVID-19 pandemic and inundation of the U.S. health care system emphasized infrastructural and health professional education vulnerabilities. A planning committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Global F...Lasīt vairāk
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Health and Medicine Division, Board on Global Health, Forum on Microbial Threats, Anna Nicholson, Julie Liao, Claire Biffl
Despite being preventable and curable since the middle of the twentieth century, tuberculosis (TB) has long persisted as the worlds deadliest infectious disease, with the communities most devastated by TB among the poorest and most vulnerable in th...Lasīt vairāk
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Health and Medicine Division, Board on Global Health, Forum on Microbial Threats, Megan Snair, Claire Biffl, Elizabeth Ashby
To take stock of lessons learned from COVID-19 around the world and in the United States, the Forum on Microbial Threats held two virtual workshops during 2021. The first workshop focused on what it means to frame the response to COVID-19 through a...Lasīt vairāk
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Health and Medicine Division, Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, Board on Global Health, Committee on the Analysis to Enhance the Effectiveness of
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is responsible for preventing the introduction, transmission, and spread of communicable diseases into the United States. It does this primarily through the Division of Global Migration and Q...Lasīt vairāk
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Health and Medicine Division, Board on Global Health, Global Forum on Innovation in Health Professional Education, Erin Hammers Forstag, Patricia A. Cuff
The COVID-19 pandemic was arguably the greatest disrupter health professional education (HPE) has ever experienced. To explore how lessons learned from this unprecedented event could inform the future of HPE, the Global Forum on Innovation in Healt...Lasīt vairāk
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Health and Medicine Division, Board on Global Health, Forum on Microbial Threats, Anna Nicholson, Charles Minicucci, Julie Liao, Claire Biffl...
A planning committee convened by the Forum on Microbial Threats of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held a virtual workshop on February 23-25, 2021, titled Systematizing the One Health Approach in Preparedness and Respon...Lasīt vairāk
National Academy of Medicine, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Health and Medicine Division, Board on Global Health, Committee on Vaccine Research and Development Recommendations for Advancing Pandem
The global response to COVID-19 has demonstrated the importance of vigilance and preparedness for infectious diseases, particularly influenza. There is a need for more effective influenza vaccines and modern manufacturing technologies that are adapt...Lasīt vairāk
National Academy of Medicine, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Health and Medicine Division, Board on Global Health, Committee on Public Health Interventions and Countermeasures for Advancing Pandemi
The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged the worlds preparedness for a respiratory virus event. While the world has been combating COVID-19, seasonal and pandemic influenza remain imminent global health threats. Non-vaccine public health control measur...Lasīt vairāk
National Academy of Medicine, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Health and Medicine Division, Board on Global Health, Committee on Global Coordination, Partnerships, and Financing Recommendations for
The COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare the fragility of the global system of preparedness and response to pandemics and the fragmentation of our research and development ecosystem. The pandemic has provided a disruptive moment to advance new norms and...Lasīt vairāk
National Academy of Medicine, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Health and Medicine Division, Board on Global Health, Committee on Addressing Issues of Vaccine Distribution and Supply Chains to Advanc
Influenza viruses, both seasonal and pandemic, have the potential to disrupt the health and well-being of populations around the world. The global response to the COVID-19 pandemic and prior public health emergencies of international concern illustr...Lasīt vairāk
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Health and Medicine Division, Board on Global Health, Global Forum on Innovation in Health Professional Education, Erin Hammers Forstag, Patricia A. Cuff
During the COVID-19 pandemic, health professionals adapted, innovated, and accelerated in order to meet the needs of students, patients, and the community. To examine and learn from these experiences, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering,...Lasīt vairāk
