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To Achieve Health Equity, Leverage Nurses and Increase Funding for School and Public Health Nursing, Says New Report

News Release

Nursing in the next 10 years will demand a larger, more diversified workforce prepared to provide care in different settings, to address the lasting effects of COVID-19, to break down structural racism and the root causes of poor health, and to respond to future public health emergencies, says a new report from the National Academy of Medicine.

May 11, 2021

medical worker and a mother and two children

Featured Publications

Prevention of and Response to Sexual Harassment in Higher Education: Tools for Department Chairs and Principal Investigators: Part 1: Proceedings of a Workshop—in Brief

Proceedings

2026

Pathways to Doctoral Degrees in Computing

Consensus Study Report

2025

Considerations for Supporting Postdoctoral Scholars Experiencing Sexual Harassment in Higher Education: Issue Paper

Issue Paper

2025

Empowering Senior Higher Education Leaders in Developing an Equitable Research Ecosystem: Proceedings of a Workshop—in Brief

Proceedings

2025

Re-envisioning Postdoctoral Training in Neuroscience: Proceedings of a Workshop—in Brief

Proceedings

2021

Featured work

Education for Thriving in a Changing Climate

Consensus/Advisory Activity

Recently Completed

Modernizing Mathematics Education for Grades 9-14

Consensus/Advisory Activity

Identifying Gaps in Sexual Harassment Remediation Efforts: Issue Paper

Individually-Authored Product

Supporting Postdoctoral Scholars Experiencing Sexual Harassment in Higher Education

Individually-Authored Product

Preventing Retaliation to Discourage Sexual Harassment

Individually-Authored Product

The Postdoctoral Experience Revisited

Consensus/Advisory Activity

The Science of Effective Mentoring in STEMM

Consensus/Advisory Activity

Workplace Barriers, Solutions, and Policies for STEM and STEM Education Professionals and Postsecondary Students with Disabilities

Consensus/Advisory Activity

Addressing Environmental Harms to Reduce Sexual Harassment

Individually-Authored Product

Addressing Abuses of Power to Prevent Sexual Harassment

Individually-Authored Product

Units

Social and Economic Systems Program Area

Oversight Unit

Happy and smiling multiracial family with grandparents by the beach in New England

Center for Advancing Science and Technology (CAST)

Oversight Unit

Health Care and Public Health Program Area

Oversight Unit

Extensive series of patients, doctors and nurses of various ages and ethnicities in a modern exam room.

Used for: A Long COVID Definition
A Chronic, Systemic Disease State with Profound Consequences

Mathematical Sciences Education Board

Standing Committee

Action Collaborative on Education and Workforce Trajectories in Tech

Action Collaborative

Recently Completed

Forum on Drug Discovery, Development, and Translation

Roundtable/Forum

Global Forum on Innovation in Health Professional Education

Roundtable/Forum

Board on Higher Education and Workforce

Standing Committee

The Committee on Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine

Standing Committee

Climate Crossroads

Oversight Unit

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