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Webinar Series on Critical Resource Continuity: Recordings and Presentations Available

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This webinar series will examine shared risks, system dependencies, and resilience challenges across these resources; and foster cross-sector dialogue to surface insights, lessons learned, and priorities for strengthening preparedness and informing future efforts.

May 14, 2026

Digital Overview: A Vision for the Manufacturing USA Program in 2030 and 2035

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American manufacturing is at a crossroads. A new National Academies' report examines how the Manufacturing USA program can be strengthened to meet the nation’s manufacturing challenges over the next decade and beyond. Find out more by exploring the digital overview.

May 14, 2026

U.S. Should Substantially Boost Support for Manufacturing USA Program, Issue National Industrial Manufacturing Strategy, Says New Report

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To better compete globally and drive national progress in manufacturing, the U.S. should develop a comprehensive industrial strategy to align resources for manufacturing and maximize the economic and national security impacts of the Manufacturing USA program — a network of 17 institutes that specialize in different types of advanced manufacturing.

May 14, 2026

Watch Recording: Webinar 2 - MEDICAL OXYGEN: Building Resilient Oxygen Systems

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May 11, 2026

Watch Recording: Webinar 1 - BLOOD: Ensuring Continuity and Resilience of the U.S. Blood System

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May 4, 2026

Paleoenvironmental Data 101: Using Earth’s Past to Prepare for the Future

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While data collected by modern instruments can provide information on decades of Earth’s extreme events, paleoenvironmental data found in natural archives such as ice cores and tree rings can extend that record by hundreds, thousands, or millions of years into the past. Drawing on a new National Academies report, this interactive webpage offers an introduction to different paleoenvironmental archives and how they are being used to develop a deeper understanding of disasters in the past and plan for a more resilient future.

May 4, 2026

Supporting Responsible Innovation of Synthetic Cells

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Synthetic cell technology has the potential to offer innovative solutions in health, environmental sciences, agriculture, and manufacturing. A new National Academies report examines how this emerging field can advance and makes recommendations to ensure research develops in ways that are safe, secure, and responsive to societal needs while managing uncertainty and risk.

Apr 29, 2026

Opportunities to Prevent Pregnancy-Related Cardiovascular Disease and Maternal Mortality Identified in New Report

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Cardiovascular conditions are a leading cause of pregnancy-related death for women in the United States. A new National Academies report makes recommendations to help reduce mortality and improve maternal health outcomes throughout the reproductive period.

Apr 21, 2026

Action Collaborative on TBI Care

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Members of the Forum’s Action Collaborative on TBI Care have published guidance to support outpatient management of TBI in adults able to care for themselves at hospital discharge or who did not require acute hospitalization (available from Annals of Family Medicine and Journal of Neurotrauma). Developed for primary care and frontline clinicians, these resources identify priority clinical actions spanning diagnosis, risk assessment, patient education, symptom management, return-to-activity, and referral to specialty care, providing a structured approach to management in the first months after injury.

Apr 13, 2026

Mental Health After TBI – From Evidence to Integrated Care: A Workshop

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On May 11-12, 2026 the Forum on Traumatic Brain Injury will convene a virtual workshop exploring factors affecting mental health after TBI and practical strategies to improve screening, care delivery, and outcomes for patients and families.

Apr 13, 2026

Approaches to Address Unmet Research Needs in Traumatic Brain Injury Among Older Adults

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This interactive webpage translates findings from the Forum’s recent workshop into a dynamic, visual format. Sessions highlighted issues from better understanding comorbidities and recovery trajectories to gaps in data and representation, while pointing to opportunities to strengthen evidence and care for TBI in the older adult population.

Apr 13, 2026

Understanding TBI as a Chronic Condition

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Building on the Forum’s recent workshop, the Brain Injury Associations of America and the National Academies cohosted a webinar examining TBI’s long term effects and the need for awareness, research, and care models spanning acute care through recovery to better address persistent symptoms after injury.

Apr 13, 2026

Policy Issues for Integrating Artificial Intelligence in Cancer Research and Care: A Workshop

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This workshop examined the current and potential future uses of AI in cancer care, and ways to anticipate and address challenges related to integration of these technologies in the care of patients with cancer. A recording from the workshop is now available to watch.

Apr 2, 2026