In early 2022, the U.S. National Academies' Committee on Human Rights (CHR) convened a meeting with the leaders of national and international science and healthcare associations to discuss the serious global problem of attacks on health professionals, ranging from harassment of colleagues responding to the pandemic to physical attacks on health workers in conflict zones. Due to widespread concern about this issue among the participants, the CHR created the collaborative Forum to Address Attacks on Health Professionals to facilitate information-sharing and joint action by science and healthcare associations in support of colleagues under threat worldwide.