A planning committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will organize and conduct a public symposium marking a decade since the release of two National Academies consensus reports and exploring the way forward in three areas of national interest: increasing life expectancy; eliminating excessive health care spending; and investing equitably to create the vital conditions that all people and places need to reach their full potential for health and well-being.
The symposium will:

(1) Explore major findings as well as patterns of significant action or inaction in the three areas in the decade since the National Academies published For the Public's Health: Investing in a Healthier Future (2012) and US Health in International Perspective: Shorter Lives, Poorer Health (2013);

(2) Showcase new knowledge and promising innovations across the three areas;

(3) Explore opportunities, challenges, and imperatives for renewed effort in all three areas, especially amidst compounding crises that threaten to make matters even worse (including health inequities).

The planning committee will identify specific topics to be addressed, develop the agenda, select and invite speakers and other participants, and moderate the discussion. A proceedings and proceedings in brief summarizing the presentations and discussion at the symposium will be prepared by a designated rapporteur in accordance with institutional guidelines.