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Understanding the intricate relationship between climate dynamics and the macroeconomy is crucial for informed policy and long-term planning. However, there is a gap between climate modeling and the understanding of its full macroeconomic effects, partly due to challenges such as nonlinear climate dynamics, feedback loops, and model complexity. To address this, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, under the auspices of the Roundtable on Macroeconomics and Climate-Related Risks and Opportunities, convened a workshop on November 1-2, 2023, to consider the state of knowledge on cascading, compounding, and nonlinear physical climate risks and their implications for the macroeconomy. Through panels of invited speakers and interactive breakout discussions, the workshop focused on physical climate risks and explored how different disciplines assess and model impacts. Workshop discussions explored current and historical examples of shocks to the macroeconomy and how those have been modeled, and experts shared some of the lessons they have learned that may be relevant to policy makers today.
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ISBN Paperback: 0-309-72127-X
ISBN Ebook: 0-309-72128-8
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https://doi.org/10.17226/27811
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. Research on the Dynamics of Climate and the Macroeconomy: Proceedings of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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The National Academies Standing Committee on Reproductive Health, Equity, and Society hosted a 2-part public webinar series to assess the role of public and private financing, institutions, and systems in shaping equitable access to comprehensive reproductive health care at state and national levels. Discussions included insurance reimbursement rates for abortion care, inequities in financing for infertility care, contraceptive access initiatives, and the influence of different organizations, including the Veterans Health Administration and Indian Health Service, on access to and delivery of reproductive health services.
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ISBN Ebook: 0-309-72566-6
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https://doi.org/10.17226/27937
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. Shaping Access to Reproductive Health Care Through Financing and Delivery Systems: Proceedings of a Workshop—in Brief. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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Individuals, institutions, and communities all have a role in strengthening representation of Black men and Black women in science, engineering, and medicine (SEM). The SEM workplace has historically not been an equitable space for students, faculty, staff, and professionals, but promising practices nationwide are changing that narrative.
On September 19-20, 2022, the Roundtable on Black Men and Black Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a virtual workshop to examine local, regional, and national opportunities to engage with and leverage community support and mutually beneficial partnerships that build inclusive environments for Black undergraduate, graduate, and medical students and increase the representation of Black professionals in SEM. Workshop participants helped identify practices, policies, and partnerships with demonstrated success; laid a foundation for collaborative dialogue that involves student involvement in the planning, implementation, and evaluation of SEM programs; and identified the resources and actions necessary to further positive change for Black SEM students and professionals.
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ISBN Paperback: 0-309-71771-X
ISBN Ebook: 0-309-71772-8
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https://doi.org/10.17226/27731
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. Community Support, Partnerships, and Inclusive Environments for Black Students and Professionals in Science, Engineering, and Medicine: Proceedings of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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The Gulf Research Program and Policy and Global Affairs division of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine partnered on a pilot project called Community Engagement in Southeast Texas (CEST) to better understand the role that community engagement can play in enhancing "flood resilience" - the ability to plan and prepare for, respond to, and more successfully adapt to flooding. As part of the project, CEST convened a diverse group of community stakeholders for a 2-day workshop in Houston, TX, on April 26-27, 2023. The purpose of the workshop was to bridge community knowledge (like the lived experiences of flood survivors) and CEST knowledge (like data from the CEST discussions and survey) with knowledge from other relevant stakeholders to gain a more comprehensive understanding of flooding in NE Houston. The objectives of the workshop were to identify gaps and possible actions to fill gaps, while providing workshop attendees with opportunities to build relationships for future collaboration on enhancing flood resilience. The workshop agenda covered several topics - environmental hazards, mental health, drainage and green infrastructure, and community resilience hubs - through panel and breakout sessions.
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ISBN Ebook: 0-309-72228-4
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https://doi.org/10.17226/27848
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. Bridging Diverse Knowledge Systems on Flooding and Flood-Related Disasters in Northeast Houston Communities: Proceedings of a Workshop—in Brief. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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The CHIPS and Science Act recognized the importance of exposure to innovation and entrepreneurial concepts at the K-12 level by codifying into law the intention of broadening the base of Americans engaged in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). The Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable (GUIRR) has long sought ways to strengthen partnerships across diverse sectors of the U.S. research ecosystem to meet a range of national challenges, including addressing the issue of STEM education. On February 6 and 7, 2024, GUIRR convened a workshop for members and invited guests that focused on K-12 STEM education to understand how to shape the scientific workforce of the future.
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ISBN Ebook: 0-309-72221-7
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https://doi.org/10.17226/27845
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. Supporting K-12 STEM Education to Create the Foundations for Innovation: Proceedings of a Workshop—in Brief. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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The Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 has led to widespread devastation which presents acute and long-term challenges for Ukrainian science, education, and technology sectors. To discuss efforts to strengthen the science and innovation system, the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, in partnership with the Simons Foundation and ETH Zurich, convened a workshop with leading experts from around the world representing academia, ministries, industry, philanthropy, and foundations on March 19-20, 2024. This Proceedings of a Workshop - in Brief provides a high-level summary of the key discussions among speakers and participants during the workshop.
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ISBN Ebook: 0-309-72169-5
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https://doi.org/10.17226/27825
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. Rebuilding and Strengthening Ukrainian Science and Innovation in Support of Economic Recovery: Proceedings of a Workshop—in Brief. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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The Committee on Human Rights (CHR) promotes engagement with internationally recognized human rights norms to help shape effective, sustainable, and just responses to societal challenges. It advocates and marshals support for members of the research, technological, and health care communities who come under threat as a result of repression and discrimination. This annual report summarizes the activities of CHR in 2023.
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ISBN Ebook: 0-309-72117-2
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https://doi.org/10.17226/27808
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. Committee on Human Rights: Annual Report 2023. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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Family caregiving is not simply an outside obligation that has no bearing on the workings of academic science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine (STEMM) as it affects the lives of so many people working and studying in colleges and universities around the country. Caregiving responsibilities often clash with ingrained norms in academic STEMM environments, which demand that STEMM students and workers demonstrate immense devotion to their fields and are always available and visibly working.
Supporting Family Caregivers in STEMM describes the ways in which the labor and contributions of caregivers are often invisible and undervalued, with a specific focus on the academic STEMM ecosystem, including undergraduate and graduate students, postdoctoral scholars, resident physicians and other trainees, tenure-track and non-tenure-track faculty, staff, and researchers. This report reviews policies and practices that support caregivers, locally and nationally, and describes best practices in policy implementation and design. Supporting Family Caregivers in STEMM also highlights innovative practices and offers actionable recommendations to higher education institutions, public and private funders, and the federal government.
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ISBN Paperback: 0-309-71358-7
ISBN Ebook: 0-309-71359-5
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https://doi.org/10.17226/27416
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. Supporting Family Caregivers in STEMM: A Call to Action. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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People with disabilities are the largest minority group in the United States. While nothing about science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education, jobs, or workplaces would seem to inherently exclude people with disabilities, in practice, stigma and discrimination continue to limit opportunities for disabled people to fully contribute to and be successful in the STEM ecosystem. The planning committee for Beyond Compliance: Promoting the Success of People with Disabilities in the STEM Workforce of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, with funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation, organized a hybrid national leadership summit and virtual workshop series to address and explore issues of accessibility and inclusivity in STEM workplaces. Across the 5 days of workshops, dozens of panelists spoke about their personal and professional experiences of ableism and barriers to full participation in the STEM workforce, as well as identified positive examples of mentorship and efforts to create fully inclusive STEM spaces in education, labs, the private sector, and professional development settings.
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ISBN Paperback: 0-309-71038-3
ISBN Ebook: 0-309-71039-1
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https://doi.org/10.17226/27245
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. Disrupting Ableism and Advancing STEM: Promoting the Success of People with Disabilities in the STEM Workforce: Proceedings of a Workshop Series. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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The rapid evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) technology underscores the need for public and private institutions to understand the impact of AI on research and development (R&D), workforce development, and policies and practices in every sector of society. AI offers tremendous benefits and opportunities, but also hazards and challenges, many of which remain unknown.
In recognition of the rapidly changing AI landscape, the Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable (GUIRR) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened its membership at a workshop on October 10-11, 2023, in Washington, DC. Guests were invited to discuss the effects of the AI revolution on policy, organizational governance, and strategic cooperation among sectors in the research landscape and workforce development.
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ISBN Ebook: 0-309-71974-7
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https://doi.org/10.17226/27793
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. Artificial Intelligence at the Nexus of Collaboration, Competition, and Change: Proceedings of a Workshop—in Brief. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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The National Academies hosted a public webinar in February 2024 to discuss issues around contraception accessibility and implications for reproductive health of Americans following the overturn of the Roe v. Wade U.S. Supreme Court decision. This event was the final webinar in a 5-part series designed to consider society-wide effects of reproductive health care limits and challenges to health and well-being since the 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson Womens Health Organization ruling.
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ISBN Ebook: 0-309-71978-X
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https://doi.org/10.17226/27795
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. Pressing Issues Around Contraception Access Following the Repeal of Roe v. Wade: Proceedings of a Workshop—in Brief. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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The United States and the world face serious threats to nuclear stability and peace, now and in the coming decades. Within the nuclear arena, U.S. policy makers will need to make strategic decisions related to nuclear risks to assist with long-term planning as well as responding in real time to unanticipated events. The occurrence of unanticipated nuclear events is expected to increase as more countries develop, expand, or field nuclear energy capability; more countries consider development of nuclear weapon capability and new nuclear weapon states emerge; and nuclear weapon states expand their nuclear arsenals.
At the request of the Department of Defense, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine established and managed the Committee on Risk Analysis Methods for Nuclear War and Nuclear Terrorism to explore U.S. government methods for assessing nuclear war and nuclear terrorism risks and how those assessments are used to develop strategy and policy. This publication is the unclassified Phase 2 version of the final classified report. Risk Analysis Methods for Nuclear War and Nuclear Terrorism: Phase II builds on an earlier Phase I unclassified report. This book expands upon the use of analytical methods to assess the risks of nuclear terrorism and nuclear war and the role such approaches may play in U.S. security strategy.
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ISBN Paperback: 0-309-71825-2
ISBN Ebook: 0-309-71826-0
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https://doi.org/10.17226/27745
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. Risk Analysis Methods for Nuclear War and Nuclear Terrorism: Phase II (Expanded Abbreviated Report of the CUI Version). Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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Macroeconomic models, essential for decision making and federal budget planning, may not appropriately consider the wide breadth of climate-related impacts that potentially have large macroeconomic significance. Challenges integrating climate factors into macroeconomic analyses can stem from the complexity of macroeconomics, climate science, policy instruments, and their interactions. Although economists have made progress in developing tools to understand climate-related impacts on the macroeconomy, much of the climate and macroeconomic research has historically been conducted in disciplinary silos that can limit a holistic understanding of climate-related impacts on the macroeconomy.
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, under the auspices of the Roundtable on Macroeconomics and Climate-Related Risks and Opportunities, convened a workshop on June 14-15, 2023, to consider current macroeconomic models and suggest opportunities that may improve the incorporation of climate-related factors into macroeconomic modeling. Through panels of invited speakers and an interactive breakout discussion, the workshop explored an array of macroeconomic models and potential pathways to integrate some of the physical and transition effects of climate change. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussion of the workshop.
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ISBN Paperback: 0-309-71467-2
ISBN Ebook: 0-309-72116-4
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https://doi.org/10.17226/27447
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. Incorporating Climate Change and Climate Policy into Macroeconomic Modeling: Proceedings of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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A planning committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a series of three hybrid workshops to examine the key issues highlighted in the National Academies 2022 consensus study report, Defense Research Capacity at Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Other Minority Institutions: Transitioning from Good Intentions to Measurable Outcomes. As Department of Defense and other partners sought to implement the 2022 report recommendations, key questions remained to be explored, particularly related to how to seek ways of building research capacity at minority institutions (MIs) and develop true partnerships between MIs, other institutions of higher education, and federal agencies. The workshops featured commissioned research and literature reviews as well as case studies to illuminate problems, barriers, and approaches to increase research capacity at Historically Black Colleges and Universities.
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ISBN Paperback: 0-309-71609-8
ISBN Ebook: 0-309-71610-1
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https://doi.org/10.17226/27511
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. Building Defense Research Capacity at Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Tribal Colleges and Universities, and Minority-Serving Institutions: Proceedings of Three Town Halls. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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In December 2023, the National Academies hosted a public webinar in which medical and human rights experts explored concerns related to harassment, threats, and physical attacks against health care professionals working to provide essential reproductive health care. The event was the fourth in a webinar series designed to consider society-wide effects of limits to reproductive health care access in the U.S. following the 2022 Supreme Court Decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Womens Health Organization. This Proceedings of a Workshop-in Brief highlights the presentations and discussions that occurred at the webinar.
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ISBN Ebook: 0-309-71630-6
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https://doi.org/10.17226/27518
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. Harassment and Violence Against Health Professionals Who Provide Reproductive Care: Proceedings of a Workshop—in Brief. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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Increasing the number of Black men and Black women who enter the fields of science, engineering, and medicine (SEM) will benefit the social and economic health of the nation. On May 2-3, 2022 the Roundtable on Black Men and Black Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a workshop to highlight promising financial and supportive services and programs throughout various stages of career development. Sessions followed student progression through the major stages of education and career development, and identified policies and practices that aim to mitigate and alleviate long-standing barriers to the full participation of Black students in SEM at the K–12, undergraduate, and graduate and professional levels.
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ISBN Paperback: 0-309-71250-5
ISBN Ebook: 0-309-71251-3
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https://doi.org/10.17226/27339
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. Supporting Black Students Through Their Science, Engineering, and Medicine Career Journeys: Proceedings of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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On March 14-15, 2023, the Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held a 2-day workshop in Washington, DC to explore the use of data, research, and experiments to improve the processes for and outcomes of federal funding of scientific research. The workshop brought together researchers in the science of science funding and practitioners from government and the private sector with experience supporting or carrying out experimentation and evaluation to discuss illustrative examples of the use of experimentation from the United States and abroad; consider methods of evaluation; and foster relationships for future experimentation.
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ISBN Paperback: 0-309-71034-0
ISBN Ebook: 0-309-71035-9
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https://doi.org/10.17226/27244
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. Experimental Approaches to Improving Research Funding Programs: Proceedings of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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In the 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson Womens Health Organization decision, the U.S. Supreme Court removed the constitutional right to abortion by overturning Roe v. Wade, challenging and restricting the access and quality of Americans reproductive health care. In October 2023, the National Academies hosted a hybrid public workshop discussing new partnerships and methodologies in data generation, data integrity, data-sharing, and patient privacy needed to enable the health care and policymaking communities to understand the effects of resulting policies across the United States.
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ISBN Ebook: 0-309-71647-0
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https://doi.org/10.17226/27523
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2024. Reproductive Health, Equity, and Society: Exploring Data Challenges and Needs in the Wake of the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization Decision: Proceedings of a Workshop—in Brief. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.
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