The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will host a two-day public workshop on August 22-23, 2018 at the National Academies Building (Fred Kavli Auditorium) called Exploring Medical and Public Health Preparedness for a Nuclear Incident. Through this workshop, participants from government, NGO and private sector organizations will explore current assumptions behind and the status of medical and public health preparedness for a nuclear incident, examine potential changes in assumptions and approach, and discuss challenges and opportunities for capacity building in the current threat environment.

Report Launch: "Global Quality Chasm"

A public workshop on medical product shortages during disasters will explore opportunities to predict, prevent, and respond to them will take place in Washington, DC on September 5-6, 2018.

The workshop presentations and moderated discussions will examine opportunities to prevent suicide among people with serious mental illness (SMI), including, at minimum, bipolar disorder, major depression, schizophrenia and borderline personality disorder, as well as mood, anxiety, or other disorders that result in significant functional impairment.

The second meeting for the Committee on Integrating Social Needs Care into the Delivery of Health Care to Improve the Nation's Health will be on September 24-25, 2018 at the National Academies Keck Center located at 500 Fifth Street, NW, Washington, D.C. An agenda and registration for the public meeting is forthcoming.

On October 3, 2018, the Roundtable on Population Health Improvement and the Interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science (IAPHS) will hold a half-day joint symposium Population Health Science in the United States: Trends, Evidence, and Effective Policy.

The Forum on Neuroscience and Nervous System Disorders proposes to host a public workshop bringing together key stakeholders to advance the discussions that emerged from the three National Institutes of Health meetings scheduled in June and July 2017 to address the opioid epidemic, and examine potential implementation barriers and opportunities related to the proposed approaches discussed.

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The second meeting of the Committee on a National Strategy for Cancer Control in the United States will be on October 8-10, 2018 at the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center of the National Academies located at 100 Academy Drive, Irvine, CA 92617. All days will be closed sessions.

A one-day public workshop that will examine the current efforts and complexity of treating the global obesity epidemic.

Regenerative engineered therapies rely on live cells and/or biologically active scaffolds, thereby creating inherent challenges associated with variability and consistency in source and final products. Each patient, donor, and product application is unique, and therefore, the field faces complexities in the development of new products and therapies that are safe and effective that are not faced by developers of more conventional therapies. To further explore the various factors that contribute to successful regenerative engineering products, the Forum on Regenerative Medicine will hold a one-day workshop in Washington, DC on October 18, 2018. The workshop may discuss factors and sources of variability in the development and clinical application of regenerative engineering products, characteristics of high-quality products, and how different clinical needs, models, and contexts can inform the development of a product. A broad array of stakeholders may take part in the workshop, including academic and industry experts, regulators, clinicians, patients, and patient advocates.