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Nursing faces critical issues, resulting in the current nursing crisis. How do we understand the nuances impacting the profession, build mutual understanding, and find solutions? The panelists represented varied perspectives across the nursing workforce. They addressed the impacts of the shortage, strategies for addressing it, and the role of policy in solutions.

Get to know Kathryn McDonald, PhD, MM, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Health Systems, Quality and Safety.

It’s clear that changes in telehealth policy, mobile technology development, and consumer demand have fundamentally reshaped mental health treatment and substance use care in the US and around the world. What does this mean for people’s outcomes, specifically behavioral health care access, quality, and cost?

Get to know Joanne Kenen, the first Commonwealth Fund Journalist in Residence at the Bloomberg School of Public Health.

For many years, there has been a collective excitement about using artificial intelligence in healthcare delivery. Still, AI technology is often talked about as if it is science fiction and the future of healthcare. Despite the FDA's approval of more than 500 medical AI systems by July 2022, many experts question if AI is a reality in the medical arena, or if it remains far in the future—and how to overcome the obstacles to adopting the new technologies?

Get to know the Director of the Institute for Health and Productivity Studies at the Bloomberg School of Public Health and HBHI Affiliate Ron Goetzel

What responsibility do employers have to the health and well-being of their employees? The question is more important than ever since the COVID-19 pandemic and with more employees working from home.

The main asset of a business is its people, without whom organizations could not function. As such, employers are naturally motivated to invest in their workers. But how should they go about improving the health of employees while also improving the company’s bottom line?

Do companies have a responsibility for the health consequences of their products? Should those consequences drive how a company designs its product or service to be used by customers? What are the tradeoffs?

As the health of Americans gets worse, with chronic disease and physical and mental illnesses on the rise, do corporations have a role to play in addressing the health crisis?