Community Violence as a Population Health Issue
The Roundtable on Population Health of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will hold a one-day public workshop exploring trauma-informed approaches to community violence through a health equity lens. This workshop will highlight and explore examples of community based organizations using trauma-informed approaches to treat violence and build safe and healthy communities; strategies […]
Implementation of Lung Cancer Screening
Where: Keck Center (Room 100) This is a workshop from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Lung cancer is the third most common cancer and the leading cause of cancer-related death in the United States. Relative to other types of cancer, lung cancer often has a poor prognosis. The overall 5 year relative survival […]
Engaging the Private Sector and Developing Partnerships to Advance Health and the Sustainable Development Goals – A Workshop
Where: New York Academy of Medicine (Room 20) An ad hoc committee will be appointed to plan a 2-day public workshop to explore the potential of partnerships between the public sector, the private sector, and civil society to advance the health focused targets of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The workshop will feature invited presentations and […]
Moving From Evidence to Implementation of Early Childhood Programs: Strategies for Implementation
Where: Centre for Global Child Health: The Hospital for Sick Children Many discussions on early childhood focus on small or model programs that are showing promising results. Less attention is paid to how to scale up those programs to serve much larger populations. However a program that serves 100 children is vastly different from one […]
Strengthening the Workforce to Support Community Living and Participation for Older Adults and People with Disabilities
Where: Keck Center (Room 100) This is a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine workshop. For more information, please contact: Board on Health Sciences Policy sdomnitz@nas.edu
Clinician Resilience and Well-Being
On July 7, 2016, the National Academy of Medicine hosted a closed working meeting for leaders from more than 30 professional organizations to examine the issue of clinician resilience and well-being. For more information or to become involved in future activities related to clinician resilience, please email ClinicianWellBeing@nas.edu.
Dissemination Workshop on the Strategies to Improve Cardiac Arrest Survival
Where: NAS Building (Auditorium) The dissemination workshop on the Strategies to Improve Cardiac Arrest Survival will be held on July 11-12, 2016 in Washington DC. For further information on the workshop, please visit the committee activity page.
Human Gene Editing Open Committee Meeting
The National Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Medicine Committee on Human Gene Editing is planning to hold an open public session on July 12 from 8:45AM-12:30PM EST. At the meeting, invited experts will discuss social issues regarding human gene editing, including race and genetics in US history and the intersection of moral views […]
Accelerating Clinical Knowledge Generation and Use: Strategic Scale and Spread
This event will be held at the Keck Center in Room 100 Meeting focus: Health executive leadership for development, spread, and scaling of a continuously learning health system. Core questions/discussion points: Benefits: What are the specific and identifiable benefits (care, evidence, outcomes, and value) to be gained from the infrastructure envisioned? Examples from PCORnet, the […]
Value Incentives & Systems Innovation Collaborative Meeting
Where: Keck Center of the National Academies (Room 101) About this Event An ad hoc convening activity, under the auspices of the NAM Leadership Consortium for Value & Science-Driven Health Care, the Value Incentives & Systems Innovation Collaborative (VISIC) seeks to build on the foundation of prior work engaged by the Consortium to develop a […]
