The Committee on Harmonization of Methods for Estimating Nutrient Intake References will be holding a public meeting from 10:15 AM – 11:15 AM EDT on August 23, 2017 via videoconference. During this meeting, an overview of the study and additional background information will be provided. The study sponsor, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, will be given an orientation to the statement of task. Attendees may register to listen to the committee meeting online. Please direct any questions to Meredith Young at myoung@nas.edu.

Impact of the Global Medical Supply Chain on SNS Operations and Communications: A Workshop will take place on August 28-29, 2017 at the National Academy of Sciences Building.

Public workshop and second meeting of the Committee on the Return of Individual-Specific Research Results Generated in Research Laboratories

The Forum on Neuroscience and Nervous System Disorders will host a workshop on March 20-21, 2017 titled "Enabling Novel Treatments for Nervous System Disorders by Improving Methods for Traversing the Blood-Brain Barrier – A Workshop."

How can investments in the built environment advance obesity solutions? September 12, join the Roundtable on Obesity Solutions for a workshop that will explore the roles built environment policies and practices play in the prevention and treatment of obesity and will highlight promising, scalable, multi-sector strategies to create more healthful and equitable environments. Built environment topics that will be covered include urban planning and design, transportation systems, parks and recreation, and food systems. Register to attend either in person or via webcast. Due to seating capacity, in-person registration for this workshop is limited. The speakers' PowerPoint slides and a video recording of the proceedings will be available on this page shortly after the meeting. Learn more: http://bit.ly/ObesityRTBuiltEnvironment

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On September 13, 2017, the Committee on Accelerating Progress to Reduce Alcohol-Impaired Driving Fatalities will hold its fifth meeting.

A workshop on Early Education, sponsored by the Roundtable on Population Health Improvement

An ad hoc committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) will plan and conduct a three-part workshop series to be held over the course of a two-year period. As part of FDA's continued focus on building a national governance system for evidence generation, the proposed focus of these workshops will be on the generation and utilization of real-world evidence to evaluate efficacy, effectiveness, tolerability, and safety for both review of new indications and postapproval studies.

The Food and Nutrition Board, in partnership with the Department of Nutrition for Health and Development of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Nutrition Division of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), will convene an ad hoc committee to plan and organize a workshop to explore questions about the uses of nutrient intake recommendations, the frameworks used for their development, the status of nutrient intake recommendations globally, and experiences and expertise in methodological approaches.

The ad hoc committee will be attending the workshop, Methodological Approaches to Global Harmonization of Nutrient Intake Recommendations, in Rome, Italy. The committee will be using the evidence presented and discussions that take place in the workshop to use a case-study approach to demonstrate the application of a methodological approach for deriving nutrient intake recommendations using a selected nutrient and generate recommendations for methodological approaches to achieve a uniform and consistent basis for setting nutrient intake recommendations for young children and women of child-bearing age across countries.