The Academies Talks Health & Medicine

By: Health and Medicine Division of the National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine
  • Summary

  • Join the National Academies Health and Medicine Division as we explore the most pressing issues in public health with experts from around the nation and the world. Each episode in this podcast will focus on a different health topic and explore a new publication from the division.
    ©2022 The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
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Episodes
  • Using Population Descriptors in Genetics and Genomics Research
    Jun 27 2023

    In response to a request from the National Institutes of Health, the National Academies assembled an interdisciplinary committee of expert volunteers to conduct a study to review and assess existing methodologies, benefits, and challenges in using race, ethnicity, ancestry, and other population descriptors in genomics research. This episode summarizes important findings and recommendations from the report.

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    10 mins
  • The Future of Nursing
    Jun 9 2022

    Explore recommendations and conclusions from the National Academies report, the Future of Nursing 2020-2030: Charting a Path to Achieve Health Equity. The report explores how nurses can work to reduce health disparities and promote equity, while working across sectors, keeping costs at bay, utilizing technology, and maintaining patient and family-focused care into 2030. In this episode, Mary K. Wakefield and David R. Williams discuss how nurses are uniquely positioned to address social determinants of health and emphasize the resources and support nurses need to achieve health equity.

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    12 mins

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