Health Affairs January 22, 2025
Abstract
In 2016, ahead of the US presidential election, the National Academy of Medicine launched the strategic initiative Vital Directions for Health and Health Care—a series of papers on critical areas of US health care written by the nation’s experts and intended to provide nonpartisan guidance to the incoming administration. The National Academy of Medicine continued the initiative in 2021. The current series, titled Vital Directions for Health and Health Care: Priorities for 2025, contains six articles on priority areas in US health and medicine that demand urgent attention. Here we provide an overview of the articles, which spotlight key areas for action and transformative change: revitalizing the biomedical research enterprise, modernizing public health, charting new directions for women’s health,...
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