National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Division on Earth and Life Studies, Institute for Laboratory Animal Research, Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, Committee on Variability and Relevance of
As part of its core mission, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is tasked with assessing the hazards and risks to human health from exposure to pollutants. While some pollutants are well studied, there are little or no data on the pot...Daugiau...
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Division on Earth and Life Studies, Health and Medicine Division, Institute for Laboratory Animal Research, Board on Health Sciences Policy, Committee on the State
Nonhuman primates represent a small fraction of animals used in biomedical research, but they remain important research models due to their similarities to humans with respect to genetic makeup, anatomy, physiology, and behavior. Limitations in the...Daugiau...
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, Laboratory Assessments Board, 2022 Panel on Review of the National Institute of Standards and Technology's Communications
At the request of the director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, this report assesses the management of Standards and Technology Communications Technology Laboratory (CTL), focusing on the work, facilities, equipment, personnel,...Daugiau...
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Division on Earth and Life Studies, Institute for Laboratory Animal Research, Teresa J. Sylvina
Research to advance understanding of the ecology and biology of wildlife species is more important than ever as the world confronts issues ranging from biodiversity loss to the emergence of zoonotic diseases. However, the current understanding of an...Daugiau...
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Board on Science Education, Committee on the Future of Education Research at the Institute of Education Science
In 2002 Congress passed the Education Sciences Reform Act of 2002 (ESRA), authorizing the creation of the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) as the research, evaluation, statistics, and assessment arm of the Department of Education, and crystalli...Daugiau...
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Health and Medicine Division, Board on Health Sciences Policy, Division on Earth and Life Studies, Institute for Laboratory Animal Research, Committee on Assessment
For many years, laboratory dogs have served as important animal models for biomedical research that has advanced human health. Conducted at the request of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), this report assesses whether laboratory dogs are...Daugiau...
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Committee on Foreign Language Assessment for the U.S. Foreign Service Institute
The United States is formally represented around the world by approximately 14,000 Foreign Service officers and other personnel in the U.S. Department of State. Roughly one-third of them are required to be proficient in the local languages of the co...Daugiau...
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment, Committee on Assessing the Capital Needs of the National Institute
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and public health research. Founded in the late 1870s, NIH has produced extraordinary advances in the treatment of common and ra...Daugiau...
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Division on Earth and Life Studies, Institute for Laboratory Animal Research, Roundtable on Science and Welfare in Laboratory Animal Use, Lida Anestidou, Anne Frances Johnson
The marmoset, a type of small monkey native to South America, is a research model of increasing importance for biomedical research in the United States and globally. Marmosets offer a range of advantages as animal models in neuroscience, aging, infe...Daugiau...
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Division on Earth and Life Studies, Institute for Laboratory Animal Research, Roundtable on Science and Welfare in Laboratory Animal Use, Lida Anestidou, Erin Hammers Forstag
Precision medicine is focused on the individual and will require the rapid and accurate identification and prioritization of causative factors of disease. To move forward and accelerate the delivery of the anticipated benefits of precision medicine,...Daugiau...
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Division on Earth and Life Studies, Institute for Laboratory Animal Research, Roundtable on Science and Welfare in Laboratory Animal Use, Jenna Ogilvie, Lida Anestidou, Joe Alp
The surface of the human body and its mucous membranes are heavily colonized by microorganisms. Our understanding of the contributions that complex microbial communities make to health and disease is advancing rapidly. Most microbiome research to da...Daugiau...
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Division on Earth and Life Studies, Health and Medicine Division, Institute for Laboratory Animal Research, Board on Earth Sciences and Resources, Board on Health S
The academic biomedical research community is a hub of employment, economic productivity, and scientific progress. Academic research institutions are drivers of economic development in their local and state economies and, by extension, the national...Daugiau...
National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine, Division on Earth and Life Studies, Institute for Laboratory Animal Research, Roundtable on Science and Welfare in Laboratory Animal Use, Jenna Ogilvie, Lida Anestidou, Steven Olson
The obligation to treat animals used in research ethically and humanely extends beyond their lives in the laboratory to include their transportation from place to place. Yet transporting animals is a highly regulated and complex process that raises...Daugiau...
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Institute of Medicine, Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, Roundtable on Population Health Improvement, Joe Alper
In times of rapid change and constrained resources, measures that are important, focused, and reliable are vital. However there is an overabundance of measures available for evaluating various aspects of population health and previous efforts to sim...Daugiau...
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Institute of Medicine, Board on Health Care Services, National Cancer Policy Forum, Sharyl J. Nass, Margie Patlak, Erin Balogh
Though cancer was once considered to be a problem primarily in wealthy nations, low- and middle-income countries now bear a majority share of the global cancer burden, and cancer often surpasses the burden of infectious diseases in these countries....Daugiau...
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Institute of Medicine, Board on Global Health, Committee on Educating Health Professionals to Address the Social Determinants of Health
The World Health Organization defines the social determinants of health as the conditions in which people are born, grow, work, live, and age, and the wider set of forces and systems shaping the conditions of daily life. These forces and systems i...Daugiau...
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Institute of Medicine, Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice, Roundtable on Population Health Improvement, Darla Thompson, Theresa Wizemann
In 2013 the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Roundtable on Population Health Improvement organized a workshop to discuss opportunities to foster a health in all policies approach in non-health sectors such as housing, transportation, defense, education,...Daugiau...
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Institute of Medicine, Food and Nutrition Board, Committee to Review WIC Food Packages, Ann L. Yaktine, Marie E. Latulippe, Kathleen M. Rasmussen
The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) began 40 years ago as a pilot program and has since grown to serve over 8 million pregnant women, and mothers of and their infants and young children. Today the progra...Daugiau...
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Institute of Medicine, Board on Health Care Services, Committee on Policy Issues in the Clinical Development and Use of Biomarkers for Molecularly Targeted Therapies
Every patient is unique, and the evolving field of precision medicine aims to ensure the delivery of the right treatment to the right patient at the right time. In an era of rapid advances in biomedicine and enhanced understanding of the genetic bas...Daugiau...
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Institute of Medicine, Board on Health Sciences Policy, Forum on Aging, Disability, and Independence, Sarah Domn...
Living independently and participating in ones community are priorities for many people. In many regions across the United States, there are programs that support and enable people with disabilities and older adults to live where they choose and wi...Daugiau...
