by Jenna Ogilvie | Jan 25, 2016 | News
House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) announced on January 8, 2016 the addition of Dr. Robert Mabry, a new Robert Woods Johnson Health Policy Fellow, to the Health Subcommittee. [column col=”1/2″]Regarding Mabry’s addition,...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Jan 22, 2016 | News
Read President Obama’s remarks at the awards ceremony >> On December 22, 2015, the White House announced this year’s recipients of the National Medal of Science and National Medal of Technology and Innovation. These medals are the nation’s...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Jan 21, 2016 | News
[column col=”1/4″] [/column] Gov.-elect John Bel Edwards has named the NAM’s inaugural Norman F. Gant/American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology Fellow, Dr. Rebekah Gee, as his Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals secretary. Previously, Gee...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Jan 15, 2016 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
In recent years, many people in the global health community have advocated for greater attention to the prevention and treatment of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) such as cardiovascular disease and diabetes. Researchers, health care providers, and public health...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Jun 22, 2015 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
Abstract Every day across America, behavioral health problems in childhood and adolescence, from anxiety to violence, take a heavy toll on millions of lives. For decades the approach to these problems has been to treat them only after they’ve been identified—at...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Jun 22, 2015 | Commentary, Perspectives
Prevention is the best investment we can make in behavioral health—and the time to make it is now. Every day, across America, behavioral health problems in childhood and adolescence take a heavy toll on millions of lives. These problems cause deep, often...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Jun 22, 2015 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
The types of evidence needed to support the use of genome sequencing in the clinic varies by stakeholder and circumstance. In this IOM series, seven individually authored commentaries explore this important issue, discussing the challenges involved in and...
by Jenna Ogilvie | May 5, 2015 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
Most mental health conditions emerge in childhood and adolescence (Kessler and Wang, 2008; IOM and NRC, 2009), and many develop in the context of the same risk factors as physical disease (Mistry et al., 2012; Shonkoff et al., 2009). Similarly, many behavioral...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Apr 30, 2015 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
Childhood obesity, a serious and urgent public health problem, affects 17 percent of children in the United States, almost a third of whom have severe obesity defined as an age and sex-specific body mass index above the 99th percentile on the 2000 Centers for...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Apr 16, 2015 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
The first round of awards in the State Innovation Models (SIMs) Initiative by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) created a wave of excitement and a sense of opportunity knocking. We previously wrote that “we believe that the SIMs developed...
