The role of human factors in home health care

By Steve Olson

Challenges and opportunities in using residual newborn screening samples for translational research

By Steve Olson, Adam C. Berger

"Newborn screening samples are used to test more than 4 million infants each year for life-threatening diseases that are treatable if found at birth. These specimens also represent a potentially in...

The new profile of drug resistant tuberculosis in Russia

By Steve Olson

An estimated 2 billion people, one third of the global population, are infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium that causes tuberculosis. Spread through the air, this infectious dise...

Global technology

By Steven Olsen

"In the first half of the forum, each panelist explored a specific dimension of the global spread of technology. The topics varied widely, from reducing poverty to the impact of young people on tec...

Toward an integrated science of research on families

By Steve Olson

"Demographic changes, immigration, economic upheavals, and changing societal mores are creating new and altered structures, processes, and relationships in American families today. As families unde...

Measuring the impacts of federal investments in research

By Steve Olson, Stephen A. Merrill

"The enactment of the America COMPETES Act in 2006 (and its reauthorization in 2010), the increase in research expenditures under the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), and Preside...

Integrating large scale genomic information into clinical practice

By Steve Olson

The initial sequencing of the human genome, carried out by an international group of experts, took 13 years and $2.7 billion to complete. In the decade since that achievement, sequencing technology...

Allied health workforce and services

By Steve Olson

"The demand for health care is growing as the nation ages and seeks to provide coverage for the millions of Americans who lack health insurance. At the same time, escalating costs have led to a var...

Information sharing and collaboration

By Steve Olson, Deepali Patel

"After the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and subsequent anthrax mailings, the U.S. government prioritized a biosurveillance strategy aimed at detecting, monitoring, and characterizing natio...

Thinking evolutionarily

By Jay B. Labov, Steve Olson