• Animal Welfare Challenges in Research and Education on Wildlife, Non-Model Animal Species and Biodiversity

    Virtual Event

    The National Academies will host a meeting 9-10 February 2022 to discuss the current understanding of animal welfare challenges in research on wildlife and biologically diverse vertebrate animal species. Research to advance understanding of the ecology and biology of wildlife species is more important than ever as the world confronts issues ranging from biodiversity loss

  • Building Public Trust in Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response (PHEPR) Science

    Virtual Event

    The National Academies' Planning Committee on Building Public Trust in Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response (PHEPR) Science will hold a workshop on 29-30 March. Workshop discussants and participants will collaboratively generate actionable strategies and approaches to (re)build and maintain trust across this continuum, across stakeholders, across levels of the system (federal, state, tribal, territorial,

  • What Happened to the Plans? Lessons Observed from COVID-19 – A Workshop

    National Academies of Sciences 2101 Constitution Ave NW, Washington, DC, United States
    Hybrid Event

    A planning committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will organize and convene a day and half public health workshop. During this workshop, invited participants from government, NGO, and private sector organizations will explore the nation’s Public Health Emergency (PHE) preparedness enterprise, including existing PHE preparedness and response plans, systems, and structures,

  • Considerations and Approaches for Obese Patient Populations in Drug Development Studies

    Virtual Event

    Obese patients are a large segment of the U.S. population and should be included in medical countermeasure and drug development studies. There are presently no clear dosing guidelines for obese pediatric patients. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in collaboration with the University of Maryland Center of Excellence in Regulatory Science and Innovation (M-CERSI)

  • Regulatory Framework for Distributed and Point of Care Pharmaceutical Manufacturing

    Virtual Event

    The FDA and Product Quality Research Institute (PQRI) will host a webcast workshop on the Regulatory Framework for Distributed and Point of Care Pharmaceutical Manufacturing on 14-16 November 2022. Future pharmaceutical manufacturing may occur not only in large manufacturing facilities; it may occur in smaller, more geographically distributed facilities or even at the point of

  • Prioritizing Actions for Epidemic and Pandemic Preparedness

    Virtual Event

    The Prioritizing Actions for Epidemic and Pandemic Preparedness Virtual Symposium will be held 4 May and 18 May 2023. This first session will be held from 8:00am-12:00pm ET on 4 May 2023 and the second session from 8:00 am-12:00pm ET on 18 May 2023. The purpose of this symposium is to convene global health planning

  • Prioritizing Actions for Epidemic and Pandemic Preparedness

    Virtual Event

    The Prioritizing Actions for Epidemic and Pandemic Preparedness Virtual Symposium will be held 18 May 2023. This is the second of two sessions. The purpose of this symposium is to convene global health planning stakeholders, including those in government and academia, and across health- and non-health sectors, to strengthen the capacity for evidence-based prioritization of global

  • Tunneling Nanotubes and Intracellular Protrusions Workshop

    Virtual Event

    The Tunneling Nanotubes and Intracellular Protrusions Workshop will be hosted 4 October 2023 by the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB). This FASEB Catalyst Conference will be an exciting forum for discussing new discoveries in the field of tunneling nanotubes and related cell protrusions, and their potential implications for human disease. In the