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Branches from the Same Tree
In the United States, broad study in an array of different disciplines â€"arts, humanities, science, mathematics, engineeringâ€" as well as an i...
The radio frequency spectrum is a limited resource with ever increasing demand from an expansive range of applicationsâ€"all the way from commercia...
Research and Development of Medical Products : Workshop Summary
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Opening Doors
Careers in science, engineering, and medicine offer opportunities to advance knowledge, contribute to the well-being of communities, and support the s...
Addressing Grand Challenges
Environmental engineers support the well-being of people and the planet in areas where the two intersect. Over the decades the field has improved coun...
Proceedings of a Joint Workshop by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; UNICEF; and the King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz International Centre for Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue (KAICIID)
With the worst human refugee crisis since World War II as the backdrop, from March 16 through March 18, 2016, the National Academies of Sciences, Engi...
One of the pathways by which the scientific community confirms the validity of a new scientific discovery is by repeating the research that produced i...
Workshop Summary
On March 19, 2014, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held a workshop on the topic of the sharing of data from environmenta...
Summary of a Joint Workshop by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; Open Society Foundations; and the International Step by Step Association (ISSA)
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals for 2015-2030 strive for a world that is "just, equitable, and inclusive," in which everyone receives...
A Research Agenda
Science and technology are embedded in virtually every aspect of modern life. As a result, people face an increasing need to integrate information fro...
Research and Development of Medical Products: Workshop Summary
Since the 2014 Ebola outbreak many public- and private-sector leaders have seen a need for improved management of global public health emergencies. Th...
The World Health Organization defines the social determinants of health as "the conditions in which people are born, grow, work, live, and age, and th...
Social media has been fully integrated into the lives of most adolescents in the U.S., raising concerns among parents, physicians, public health offic...
Addressing Grand Challenges, 2018
"The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a committee of prominent environmental engineers, scientists, and policy exper...
The Current State of Evidence and Recommendations for Research
Significant changes have taken place in the policy landscape surrounding cannabis legalization, production, and use. During the past 20 years, 25 stat...
Proceedings of a Workshop Series
Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) have traditionally served as the gold standard for generating evidence about medical interventions. However, RCTs ...
Experiences and Prospects
Genetically engineered (GE) crops were first introduced commercially in the 1990s. After two decades of production, some groups and individuals remain...
The integrity of knowledge that emerges from research is based on individual and collective adherence to core values of objectivity, honesty, openness...
An Opportunity for Population Health: Proceedings of a Workshop
Education and health care significantly influence well-being and health outcomes, especially throughout adolescence. In fact, doctors note that perfor...
Proceedings of a Workshop
Women in the United States and Kuwait have made advances as researchers and leaders in science, engineering, and medical disciplines, yet challenges a...
NASA's Large Strategic Science Missions
NASA's Science Mission Directorate (SMD) currently operates over five dozen missions, with approximately two dozen additional missions in development....
A Letter Report
In response to a request from the US Department of Agriculture, the Health and Medicine Division (HMD) of the National Academies established the Stand...
Past, Present, and Future: Workshop Summary
In 2004, the Institute of Medicine released Health Literacy: A Prescription to End Confusion, a report on the then-underappreciated challenge of enabl...
Improving Health Care Worldwide
In 2015, building on the advances of the Millennium Development Goals, the United Nations adopted Sustainable Development Goals that include an explic...
As climate has warmed over recent years, a new pattern of more frequent and more intense weather events has unfolded across the globe. Climate models ...
Getting the right diagnosis is a key aspect of health care - it provides an explanation of a patient's health problem and informs subsequent health ca...
To achieve goals for climate and economic growth, "negative emissions technologies" (NETs) that remove and sequester carbon dioxide from the air will ...
The Evidence for Stigma Change
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. These ...
Phase Two Report
Hepatitis B and C cause most cases of hepatitis in the United States and the world. The two diseases account for about a million deaths a year and 78 ...
Science, Ethics, and Governance
Genome editing is a powerful new tool for making precise alterations to an organism's genetic material. Recent scientific advances have made genome ed...
Millions of Americans use e-cigarettes. Despite their popularity, little is known about their health effects. Some suggest that e-cigarettes likely co...
A Systems Approach to Professional Well-Being
Patient-centered, high-quality health care relies on the well-being, health, and safety of health care clinicians. However, alarmingly high rates of c...
The decay product of the medical isotope molybdenum-99 (Mo-99), technetium-99m (Tc-99m), and associated medical isotopes iodine-131 (I-131) and xenon-...
Abortion is a legal medical procedure that has been provided to millions of American women. Since the Institute of Medicine first reviewed the health ...
Ethical, Social, and Policy Considerations
Mitochondrial replacement techniques (MRTs) are designed to prevent the transmission of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) diseases from mother to child. While...
The purpose of accreditation is to build a competent health workforce by ensuring the quality of training taking place within those institutions that ...
A Consesus Study Report of the National Academies of Sciences, Health, Medicine
"Millions of Americans use e-cigarettes, even as rates of smoking combustible tobacco cigarettes continue to decline among youth and adults. In 2016 y...
Progress and Prospects
Quantum mechanics, the subfield of physics that describes the behavior of very small (quantum) particles, provides the basis for a new paradigm of com...
Improved observations of the atmospheric boundary layer (BL) and its interactions with the ocean, land, and ice surfaces have great potential to advan...
Nurses make up the largest segment of the health care profession, with 3 million registered nurses in the United States. Nurses work in a wide variety...