by Talia Lewis | Mar 25, 2019 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
ABSTRACT | Despite significant progress in the fight against HIV/AIDS in the United States, HIV prevention and treatment disparities among key populations remain a national public health concern. While new HIV diagnoses are increasing among people under age...
by Talia Lewis | Mar 13, 2019 | News
A commentary published in Nature calls for a moratorium on clinical uses of heritable human genome editing and the establishment of an international governance framework. (We responded to the commentary with a joint letter, which is an abbreviated version of this...
by Talia Lewis | Feb 21, 2019 | News
Thanks to the generous donation from Dr. Patrick Poon, the University of Hong Kong (HKU) and the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) have established the NAM-HKU Fellowship in Global Health Leadership which aims to provide a two-year training for early- to mid-career...
by Talia Lewis | Dec 3, 2018 | News
The National Academy of Medicine is partnering with the School of Public Health, LKS Faculty of Medicine at The University of Hong Kong (HKU) to offer the NAM-HKU Fellowship in Global Health Leadership. An official announcement ceremony was held on December 1, 2018 at...
by Talia Lewis | Nov 29, 2018 | News
We thank the organizing committee of the Second International Summit on Human Genome Editing, held this week in Hong Kong, for planning an important and timely conference on a rapidly advancing area of science and medicine. We support the committee’s...
by Talia Lewis | Nov 27, 2018 | News
J. Michael McGinnis, MD, the Leonard D. Schaffer Executive Officer of the National Academy of Medicine has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Election as a AAAS Fellow is an honor bestowed upon AAAS members by their...
by Talia Lewis | Nov 12, 2018 | News
ATLANTA — J. Michael McGinnis, MD, MA, MMP, a highly-regarded epidemiologist and health policy expert, will receive the 2018 Fries Prize for Improving Health. McGinnis is being honored for fundamentally transforming our nation’s understanding about how to improve...
by Talia Lewis | Oct 18, 2018 | News
The National Academy of Medicine (NAM) at its annual meeting announced its inaugural International Health Policy Fellow, Roger Chung, Ph.D., M.H.S., assistant professor in the School of Public Health and Primary Care at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). He...
by Talia Lewis | Oct 17, 2018 | News
The winners of the sixth annual D.C. Public Health Case Challenge were announced at this year’s National Academy of Medicine (NAM) Annual Meeting. The challenge aims to promote interdisciplinary, problem-based learning around a public health issue of importance to...
by Talia Lewis | Oct 15, 2018 | News
The National Academy of Medicine (NAM) has selected three outstanding health professionals for NAM Fellowships. The fellows were chosen based on their professional qualifications, reputations as scholars, professional accomplishments, and relevance of current field...
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