Commentary

A Food System Paradigm Shift: From Cheap Food at Any Cost to Food within a One Health Framework

by Madeleine Deye | Nov 22, 2021 | Commentary, Perspectives

  Every dollar spent on food in the United States produces two dollars of negative impact on public health and the environment. Today’s food system feeds people but harms the environment and the health of humans, animals, and plants globally (The Rockefeller...

Don’t “Waive” Goodbye to Education for Opioid Use Disorder

by Madeleine Deye | Oct 4, 2021 | Commentary, Perspectives

  Introduction As the United States continues grappling with the COVID-19 pandemic, a long-standing and worsening public health crisis escalates. In 2020, more than 93,000 people in the U.S. died of drug-related overdoses largely due to the synthetic opioid...

Researchers Should Consider How Disparities Change Over Time and Space: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic

by Madeleine Deye | Sep 8, 2021 | Commentary, Perspectives

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has revealed significant racial/ethnic inequalities in numerous aspects of American society. However, the massive disruption and upheaval to daily life caused by the pandemic can also present a unique moment in history...

Innovative Health Care Delivery: The Scientific and Regulatory Challenges in Designing mHealth Interventions

by Jenna Ogilvie | Aug 2, 2021 | Commentary, Perspectives

  Scientists looking for innovative ways to deliver healthcare have long searched for mechanisms that can enable the right intervention to be delivered at the right time. Traditional delivery mechanisms have been limited both to the availability of a provider...

The Road to Readiness: Guiding Families of Children and Adolescents with Serious Illness Toward Meaningful Advance Care Planning Discussions

by Madeleine Deye | Aug 2, 2021 | Commentary, Perspectives

  Seriously ill children, adolescents, and young adults (C-AYA) live with a heavy symptom burden, uncertain or poor prognoses, and evolving expectations of their disease course that require health care professionals (HCPs) to facilitate and maintain meaningful...

Protecting the Medically Vulnerable amid COVID-19: Insights from the Dually Eligible Population in the United States

by Jenna Ogilvie | Jul 19, 2021 | Commentary, Perspectives

The National Academies are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. Visit our resource center >>     Introduction Dually eligible beneficiaries are individuals enrolled in both Medicare and Medicaid. COVID-19 has exacerbated existing vulnerabilities within...