Public Health

Short-Term Action for America’s Health: Health Care, Public Health, and Community Collaboration to Reduce the Burden of Respiratory Infections, Opioid Use Disorder, and Other Public Health Threats

by Talia Lewis | May 20, 2024 | Commentary, Perspectives

Introduction: Collaborative Short-Term Action to Advance America’s Health Progress on America’s health has been challenging despite better tools and capabilities to improve health than ever before (The Commonwealth Fund, 2022). The United States has world-leading...

Lessons for Public Health Excellence from the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Perspective from New York City

by Madeleine Deye | Feb 5, 2024 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives

At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, public health leadership in New York City and their response to the emerging pandemic were in the public eye. Immediately, the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (NYC DOHMH) and other local health...

Ninth Annual DC Public Health Case Challenge

by Madeleine Deye | Sep 6, 2023 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives

  This discussion paper provides an overview of the Ninth Annual DC Public Health Case Challenge (1), a student competition held in 2022 by the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) and the Roundtable on Population Health Improvement in the Health and Medicine...

Fight for a More Equitable Future and Commit to Our Social Contract: Advice to the Medical School Graduates of 2023

by Laura DeStefano | May 31, 2023 | Commentary, Perspectives

This commentary is adapted from commencement speeches delivered by Victor Dzau at the University of Pittsburgh and Tulane University. Graduates, as newly minted health care providers, researchers, and educators, you join thousands of others around the globe connected...

Advancing Primary Care with Underserved Communities: A Case Study of the Leonard A. Lauder Community Care Nurse Practitioner Program

by Madeleine Deye | Feb 13, 2023 | Commentary, Perspectives

  Surveying the landscape of primary care, the 2021 National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) report Implementing High-Quality Primary Care: Rebuilding the Foundation of Health Care noted the disappointing lack of progress made on the...

Accountable Communities for Health: What We Are Learning from Recent Evaluations

by Madeleine Deye | Oct 31, 2022 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives

    Background Accountable Communities for Health (ACHs) are multisector, community-based partnerships that bring together health care, public health, social services, other local partners, and residents to address the unmet health and social needs of the...

Leveraging the Urgency of Economic Disparities Driven by the COVID-19 Pandemic to Strengthen the U.S. Safety Net

by Jenna Ogilvie | Feb 7, 2022 | Commentary, Perspectives

  The adverse economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic have contributed to socioeconomic and health disparities in the United States, with a disproportionate impact among low-income persons and communities of color. However, these disparities documented over the...

Lessons Learned for Obesity Prevention and Care from Five Integrated Programs

by Madeleine Deye | Nov 22, 2021 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives

Abstract  Since the publication of our integrated framework for the prevention and treatment of obesity and related chronic diseases in 2015, more than 140 Accountable Communities for Health (ACH) have been established in an effort to develop multi-sectoral...

Public Health COVID-19 Impact Assessment: Lessons Learned and Compelling Needs

by Jenna Ogilvie | Apr 7, 2021 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives

The National Academies are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. Visit our resource center >>     Introduction Gains in life expectancy and quality of life over the course of American history can be attributed to forward-looking investments in public...

Duty to Plan: Health Care, Crisis Standards of Care, and Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2

by Jenna Ogilvie | Mar 5, 2020 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives

The National Academies are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. Visit our resource center >>         ABSTRACT | The novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 and resulting disease state COVID-19 pose a direct threat to an over-burdened U.S. medical care...