by Laura DeStefano | Oct 15, 2015 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
Abstract Health care and public health are finding common—but conflicted—ground in population health. Current discussions in the two fields are collecting a large and growing set of tools, but with little clarity about which are appropriate for exactly what...
by Laura DeStefano | Oct 14, 2015 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
In 2014, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) (On July 1, 2015, the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) joined the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering as the third academy overseeing the program units of the newly formed National Academies...
by Laura DeStefano | Oct 5, 2015 | News
Leadership Gathering Focuses on Health Care Transformation Governors play a critical role in health care transformation and are leading innovative efforts to improve the quality of health care while reducing its cost. At the forefront of those efforts are broad...
by Laura DeStefano | Sep 25, 2015 | News
To inform a committee that is planning an international summit on human gene editing, taking place this December in Washington, DC, the National Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Medicine are holding a meeting on Oct. 5 to provide the committee with an...
by Laura DeStefano | Sep 25, 2015 | Commentary, Perspectives
As of 2011, 25.3 million people in the United States had limited English proficiency (LEP). This number includes people born outside and inside the United States (Zong and Batalova, 2015). Spanish is the most spoken language in the United States after English,...
by Laura DeStefano | Sep 14, 2015 | News
The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the Royal Society (the science academy of the U.K.) are joining the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (NAS) and the U.S. National Academy of Medicine (NAM) in co-hosting an international summit on human gene editing to be held...
by Laura DeStefano | Sep 11, 2015 | News
Chad A. Mirkin is the inaugural recipient of the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Prize in Convergence Research, the National Academy of Sciences announced today. A professor at Northwestern University and the director of its International Institute for Nanotechnology,...
by Laura DeStefano | Sep 11, 2015 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
Abstract Despite the fact that they have gone through a rigorous approval process, uncertainty about newly approved drugs always exists. The uncertainty is amplified when drugs are approved on preliminary or interim evidence (i.e., accelerated approval) or on...
by Laura DeStefano | Sep 9, 2015 | News
The recipients of the 2015 Communication Awards were announced today by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Supported by the W.M. Keck Foundation since 2003 as part of the Keck Futures Initiative, these prestigious awards — each of...
by Laura DeStefano | Aug 26, 2015 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
Abstract Dose Matters describes the concept of “population dose”—an approach to strengthening and evaluating the impact of complex multisector, multilevel, place-based initiatives. This discussion paper reports on what is promising about the approach while...
