Past Events

Reversing the Dramatic, 30-Year Rise in Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes  What promising, new directions exist for reversing the dramatic rise of obesity and type 2 diabetes over the past […]

The National Academy of Medicine will hold its annual meeting on Sunday and Monday, October 16-17, 2016 in Washington, DC at the National Academy of Sciences Building. Sunday events are for members only. Monday's symposium on […]

This is an event of the Health and Medicine Division of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.  Have we tipped the scale towards achieving a healthy weight? What […]

What's next for U.S. health policy? As we look ahead to a new presidential administration, we face not only daunting challenges, but tremendous opportunities. To inform debate and decision making […]

The biannual members meeting of the Leadership Consortium for a Value & Science-Driven Health System will take place on September 22, 2016. This meeting is closed to the public, but […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]