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Building on the innovative Institute of Medicine reports To Err Is Human and Crossing the Quality Chasm, Quality Through Collaboration: The Future of Rural Health offers a strategy to address the quality challenges in rural communities.
Rural America is a vital, diverse component of the American community, representing nearly 20% of the population of the United States. Rural communities are heterogeneous and differ in population density, remoteness from urban areas, and the cultural norms of the regions of which they are a part. As a result, rural communities range in their demographics and environmental, economic, and social characteristics. These differences influence the magnitude and types of health problems these communities face.
Quality Through Collaboration: The Future of Rural Health assesses the quality of health care in rural areas and provides a framework for core set of services and essential infrastructure to deliver those services to rural communities. The book recommends:
It is critical that existing and new resources be deployed strategically, recognizing the need to improve both the quality of individual-level care and the health of rural communities and populations.
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ISBN Ebook: 0-309-58877-4
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https://doi.org/10.17226/11140
Institute of Medicine. 2005. Quality Through Collaboration: The Future of Rural Health. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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The National Academies Standing Committee on Reproductive Health, Equity, and Society hosted a public webinar to explore connections between mental and reproductive health care and access as well as to present solutions to the root causes of mental and reproductive health inequities. Speakers addressed the relationship between intimate partner violence and reproductive health care, the social and structural determinants of health affecting access to mental health treatment, mental health implications of restrictions on access to abortion care, and more. This Proceedings of a Workshop-in Brief highlights the presentations and discussions that occurred at the workshop.
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ISBN Ebook: 0-309-73478-9
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https://doi.org/10.17226/29053
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2025. Examining Critical Issues at the Intersection Between Mental Health and Reproductive Health: Proceedings of a Workshop—in Brief. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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NASA's New Frontiers (NF) program plays a crucial role in solar system exploration by soliciting principal investigator (PI)-led missions at a more frequent cadence of two per decade than flagship missions, but with a larger budget and scope than Discovery missions. Mission themes for the New Frontiers 5 (NF-5) announcement of opportunity (AO) were evaluated in the 2011 planetary science decadal survey Vision and Voyages for Planetary Science in the Decade 2013-2022 and reevaluated in Report Series - Committee on Astrobiology and Planetary Science: Options for the Fifth New Frontiers Announcement of Opportunity. The most recent planetary science decadal survey, Origins, Worlds, and Life: A Decadal Strategy for Planetary Science and Astrobiology 2023-2032, recommended mission themes for NF-6 and NF-7 for the current decade (2023–2032). Since the completion of the Origins, Worlds, and Life report, the timing for the upcoming NF-5 AO has been delayed to no earlier than 2026, overlapping with the timeframe expected for NF-6. Therefore, NASA requested that the National Academies investigate and report on any scientific, programmatic, and technological advances that have a significant impact on the mission themes prioritized for the next NF AO.
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ISBN Ebook: 0-309-72796-0
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https://doi.org/10.17226/27998
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2025. Proposed Science Themes for NASA's Fifth New Frontiers Mission. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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Airports host multiple federal agencies that play key roles in the operations,safety, and security of their facilities. Planning and operation of airports across the United States may require accommodation of multiple federal agencies, but the legal authority defining airports' rights and obligations to these agencies is varied and at times unclear.
ACRP Legal Research Digest 47: Accommodating Federal Agencies at Airports and Related Contractual Concerns, from TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program, seeks to provide a single source of information concerning airports' rights and obligations to accommodate federal agencies and to enter into cooperative agreements and other agreements.
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ISBN Paperback: 0-309-73349-9
ISBN Ebook: 0-309-73350-2
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https://doi.org/10.17226/28870
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2025. Accommodating Federal Agencies at Airports and Related Contractual Concerns. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) live in the American imagination as promising tools for solving pressing global challenges and enhancing quality of life. Despite the importance of the STEM disciplines in the landscape of U.S. political, economic, and social priorities, STEM learning opportunities are unevenly distributed, and the experiences an individual has in STEM education are likely to vary tremendously based on their race, ethnicity, socio-economic class, gender, and a myriad of other factors.
Equity in K-12 STEM Education: Framing Decisions for the Future approaches equity in STEM education not as a singular goal but as an ongoing process that requires intentional decision-making and action toward addressing and disrupting existing inequities and envisioning a more just future. Stakeholders at all levels of the education system - including state, district, and school leaders and classroom teachers - have roles as decision-makers who can advance equity. This consensus study report provides five equity frames as a guide to help decision-makers articulate short- and long-term goals for equity and make decisions about policy and practice.
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ISBN Paperback: 0-309-69950-9
ISBN Ebook: 0-309-69951-7
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https://doi.org/10.17226/26859
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2025. Equity in K-12 STEM Education: Framing Decisions for the Future. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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When oil and gas production began in the 19th century in North America, standards and regulations for the drilling and plugging of wells had not yet been developed. Over time, many of these and other wells were abandoned - unplugged, or not plugged to modern standards, and have sat idle for an extended, possibly unknown, period of time. These wells might not have been originally operated and maintained in accordance with existing statutes and regulations and, due to degradation over time and potential improper prior operations, they can emit methane, contaminate groundwater, and impact ecosystems, creating risks for both the environment and the public.
To explore and share the variety of existing procedures and standards for plugging orphaned and abandoned wells, including current best practices for well-plugging technologies, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a workshop on July 18-19, 2024. Sponsored by the Department of the Interior's Orphaned Wells Program Office, the workshop included members of the federal government, state leaders, tribal representatives, industry experts, and other affected parties. This proceedings summarizes the presentation and discussion of the workshop.
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ISBN Paperback: 0-309-72914-9
ISBN Ebook: 0-309-72915-7
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17226/28035
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2025. Practices and Standards for Plugging Orphaned and Abandoned Hydrocarbon Wells: Proceedings of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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In July 2024, the National Academies Forum on Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders hosted a public workshop to address the workforce needs and challenges across the behavioral health continuum. Experts shared insights on improving infrastructure to enhance access and quality of mental health services with a focus on advancing health equity. Discussions highlighted structural and policy challenges, care integration, and the potential role of technology and innovation to tackle workforce shortages. This proceedings highlights the presentations and discussions that occurred at the workshop.
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ISBN Paperback: 0-309-73121-6
ISBN Ebook: 0-309-73122-4
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https://doi.org/10.17226/28583
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2025. Addressing Workforce Challenges Across the Behavioral Health Continuum of Care: Proceedings of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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At the request of the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center and D.E. Shaw Research (DESRES), the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine appointed a fifteenth committee of experts to review and evaluate submissions received in response to a Request for Proposals for biomolecular simulation time on Anton 3, a supercomputer specially designed and built by DESRES.
The proposals were evaluated based on their scientific merit, capabilities, past accomplishments, scientific promise of the applicant, suitability of the targeted biochemical system for simulation on Anton 3, overall feasibility of the proposed studies, and the likely scientific impact. This report summarizes the evaluations and identifies proposals that best meet the selection criteria for the project.
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ISBN Ebook: 0-309-73457-6
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https://doi.org/10.17226/29047
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2025. Proposal Evaluation for Allocation of Supercomputing Time for the Study of Molecular Dynamics: Fifteenth Round. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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On February 21-22, 2024, the Chemical Sciences Roundtable of the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine hosted a workshop, Publishing in the Age of Open Science, to discuss the various benefits and issues related to open access and FAIR (findable, accessible, interoperable, reusable) data practices for chemistry and chemical engineering research and publications. This Proceedings of a Workshop-in Brief summarizes the presentations and discussions that occurred at the workshop.
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ISBN Ebook: 0-309-72311-6
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17226/27876
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2025. Publishing in the Age of Open Science: Proceedings of a Workshop—in Brief. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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On February 19, 2024, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Gulf Research Program and the Cultural Programs of the National Academy of Sciences convened a one-day workshop at the 2024 Gulf of Mexico Conference in Tampa, Florida focused on artist and scientist collaborations - and how they could support and inspire a healthy, resilient, and sustainable future across Gulf Coast communities. An ad hoc committee planned a workshop that delved into areas including creative problem-solving, ways to understand and engage with complex topics through creative practices, mutual learning and educational opportunities that result from artists and scientists working together, and how art and science collaborations can elevate community voices.
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ISBN Ebook: 0-309-73509-2
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https://doi.org/10.17226/29062
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2025. Science and Art Collaborations: Engaging Gulf Communities in Understanding and Addressing Complex Environmental Issues: Proceedings of a Workshop—in Brief. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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On October 10-11, 2023, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine hosted the U.S. Research Data Summit at the National Academy of Sciences Building in Washington, DC. The summit was undertaken by a planning committee organized under the U.S. National Committee for CODATA. The summit was informed by input from 29 organizations, including leaders from federal government agencies, the private sector, public and nonprofit organizations, and research institutions. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussion of the summit.
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ISBN Paperback: 0-309-73517-3
ISBN Ebook: 0-309-73515-7
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https://doi.org/10.17226/29064
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2025. U.S. Research Data Summit: Strengthening Cooperation Across Organizations and Sectors: Proceedings of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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The U.S. Department of Transportation and Congress should direct and support states, localities, regional planning organizations, and other recipients of federal surface transportation funds to pilot test the use of metrics for informing transportation investments aimed at addressing the needs of all people in a deliberate and equitable manner.
This is among the recommendations in TRB Special Report 356: An Assessment of Data, Tools, and Metrics for Equity in Decisions About Surface Transportation Investments, from the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. The report, called for by Congress, considers the needs of state and local jurisdictions as they strive to use their federal transportation funds to promote safe and reliable access to life needs such as housing, jobs, health care, and education, and to avoid and mitigate any adverse effects from transportation. The report's findings and advice will also inform a follow-on National Academies' research project to pilot test promising approaches for equity analysis.
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ISBN Paperback: 0-309-73161-5
ISBN Ebook: 0-309-73162-3
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https://doi.org/10.17226/28591
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2025. An Assessment of Data, Tools, and Metrics for Equity in Decisions About Surface Transportation Investments. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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Women make up over half of the U.S. population, yet research on women's health conditions, including those that are female specific such as fibroids, more common among women such as anxiety, or affect women differently such as cardiovascular disease, is severely lacking. Medical advances for women have lagged, in part due to a lack of understanding of basic sex-based differences in physiology. To address this, the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) Office of Research in Women's Health tasked the National Academies with convening a committee of experts to assess the state of women's health research at NIH, identify critical knowledge gaps, assess the level of funding for women's health research, and more.
The resulting report outlines specific recommendations for NIH women's health research priorities; training and education efforts to build, support, and maintain a robust women's health research workforce; improving internal structures, systems and processes; soliciting, reviewing, and supporting women's health research; and ensuring appropriate levels of funding.
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ISBN Paperback: 0-309-73139-9
ISBN Ebook: 0-309-73140-2
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https://doi.org/10.17226/28586
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2025. A New Vision for Women's Health Research: Transformative Change at the National Institutes of Health. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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State departments of transportation (DOTs) are responsible for the construction and maintenance of the nation's roadway infrastructure, which requires quality materials and workmanship verified through inspection and testing.
NCHRP Synthesis 638: State DOT Certification Programs for Materials Sampling and Testing Personnel, from TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program, documents practices used by DOTs for implementing qualification and certification programs for the personnel who conduct materials sampling and testing in accordance with federal requirements.
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ISBN Paperback: 0-309-73285-9
ISBN Ebook: 0-309-73286-7
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https://doi.org/10.17226/28849
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2025. State DOT Certification Programs for Materials Sampling and Testing Personnel. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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In 2023, the National Academies convened an expert committee to assess the current use of racial and ethnic categories in biomedical research, review existing guidance for researchers, and provide new guidance for future use. The resulting 2025 report, Rethinking Race and Ethnicity in Biomedical Research, outlines nine actionable recommendations and associated resources for advancing the responsible use of race and ethnicity.
The recommendations of Rethinking Race and Ethnicity in Biomedical Research address how to: decide whether to use race and ethnicity in different research contexts; characterize and disclose limitations of datasets that include racial and ethnic information; identify factors to investigate instead of or alongside race and ethnicity; include overlooked populations in analysis; and support sustained community engagement.
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ISBN Paperback: 0-309-72463-5
ISBN Ebook: 0-309-72464-3
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17226/27913
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2025. Rethinking Race and Ethnicity in Biomedical Research. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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The complex challenges facing society today call for new ways of doing research that bring researchers, policy makers, community leaders and members, industry stakeholders, and others together to identify evidence needs, contribute different kinds of knowledge and expertise, and use evidence to accomplish shared goals. Although momentum is building toward a research enterprise that more routinely enables and rewards this type of collaboration, the development of institutional capacities to support diverse forms of engaged research have not kept pace with the need for them.
To explore opportunities for engaged and societally impactful scholarship, the Board on Science Education at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a workshop, Building Institutional Capacity for Engaged Research in Washington, D.C, held online on June 13 and 14, 2024. A diverse set of leaders and stakeholders from across the research ecosystem shared actionable ideas and innovations that participants could use for building institutional capacity for engaged research in their own in their own institutions and settings and proposed concrete ideas for coordination and capacity building to advance engaged research. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussion of the workshop.
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ISBN Paperback: 0-309-73033-3
ISBN Ebook: 0-309-73034-1
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https://doi.org/10.17226/28337
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2025. Building Institutional Capacity for Engaged Research: Proceedings of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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In most state departments of transportation (DOTs), a significant portion of the workforce continues to be eligible for retirement, which could lead to a loss of institutional knowledge. Collaboration and interdisciplinary work are also increasing the need for effective, efficient, and timely knowledge transfer. State DOTs and other transportation agencies could benefit from knowledge management (KM) techniques and practices to help identify, capture, and transfer institutional knowledge and support continuous learning. KM continues to evolve, particularly in the understanding of factors such as cognitive science, learning cultures, and knowledge risk.
NCHRP Research Report 1134: Knowledge Management at State Departments of Transportation: Research Roadmap, from TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program, presents a research roadmap for promoting KM among state DOTs and other transportation agencies. The roadmap consists of 11 research problem statements covering a broad set of research needs that agencies at different stages of readiness for conducting KM research can undertake to support their KM programs.
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ISBN Paperback: 0-309-73190-9
ISBN Ebook: 0-309-73191-7
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https://doi.org/10.17226/28598
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2025. Knowledge Management at State Departments of Transportation: Research Roadmap. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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Electric vehicle (EV) sales in the United States have increased from around 100,000 in 2013 to more than one million in 2023. In turn, airports have installed charging stations to meet their customers' needs, prepare for expected demand, and comply with local ordinances. At least 93 out of the 145 hub airports are offering EV charging in their passenger parking facilities, up from 37 in 2014.
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ISBN Paperback: 0-309-73169-0
ISBN Ebook: 0-309-73170-4
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https://doi.org/10.17226/28593
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2025. Electric Vehicle Charging Stations at Airport Passenger Parking Facilities. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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On May 29-30, 2024, the National Materials and Manufacturing Board and the Board on Mathematical Sciences and Analytics of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held a workshop, Methods for Enhancing Additive Manufacturing Qualification and Certification for Defense Applications, sponsored by the Department of Defense. The aim of the workshop was to explore current approaches to enhancing predictive accuracy and innovations in process, control, and inspection, as well as to discuss recent advances in statistics and analytics. This Proceedings of a Workshop-in Brief summarizes the presentations and discussions that occurred at that workshop.
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ISBN Ebook: 0-309-73177-1
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https://doi.org/10.17226/28595
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2025. Methods for Enhancing Additive Manufacturing Qualification and Certification for Defense Applications: Proceedings of a Workshop—in Brief. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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