Forum on Traumatic Brain Injury
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Forum on Traumatic Brain Injury convenes leaders across TBI prevention, care, research, and lived experience to advance recommendations from the report Traumatic Brain Injury: A Roadmap for Accelerating Progress (NASEM 2022), foster progress in understanding TBI and enhancing prevention, diagnosis, care and recovery, and identify opportunities for collective action. The Forum addresses topics relating to critical research gaps, the complexity of the systems involved in TBI treatment and rehabilitation, the challenge of coordination across the lifecycle, and other needs and challenges facing those involved in this field.
In progress
"Fostering understanding and action to advance traumatic brain injury (TBI) prevention, research, care, and recovery across the lifespan."
News and Updates
Building Integrated Care Pathways for Traumatic Brain Injury – From Enhanced Characterization to Coordinated Care: A Workshop
Update
On October 19–20, 2026, the Forum on Traumatic Brain Injury will convene a virtual workshop exploring opportunities to build more coordinated TBI care pathways, with particular focus on acute care through the first few months of recovery. Discussions will consider what a high-quality TBI care pathway could entail and how advances in TBI characterization can be translated into clinical practice.
Mental Health After TBI – From Evidence to Integrated Care: A Workshop
Update
On May 11-12, 2026 the Forum on Traumatic Brain Injury convened a virtual workshop exploring factors affecting mental health after TBI and strategies to improve screening, care delivery, and outcomes for patients and families. Written proceedings coming soon.
Action Collaborative on TBI Care
Update
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.
