The purpose of accreditation is to build a competent health workforce by ensuring the quality of training taking place within those institutions that have met certain criteria. It is the combination of institution or program accreditation with individual licensure?for confirming practitioner competence?that governments and professions use to reassure the public of the capability of its health workforce. Accreditation offers educational quality assurance to students, governments, ministries, and society. Given the rapid changes in society, health, and health care, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine hosted a workshop in April 2016, aimed to explore global shifts in society, health, health care, and education, and their potential effects on general principles of program accreditation across the continuum of health professional education. Participants explored the effect of societal shifts on new and evolving health professional learning opportunities to best ensure quality education is offered by institutions regardless of the program or delivery platform. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussions from the workshop. Table of Contents Front Matter 1 Introduction 2 Varying Views on Accreditation 3 Competency-Based Accreditation and Collaboration 4 Engaging New Partners in Accreditation 5 Moving Forward Appendix A: Workshop Agenda Appendix B: Speaker Biographical Sketches Appendix C: Forum-Sponsored Products

An adequate, well-trained, and diverse health care workforce is essential for providing access to quality health care services. However, despite more than a decade of concerted global action to address the health workforce crisis, collective efforts are falling short in scaling up the supply of health workers. The resulting health workforce shortage affects people's access to quality health care around the globe. In October 2016, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a workshop to explore resources for financing health professional education in high-, middle-, and low-income countries and innovative methods for financially supporting investments in health professional education within and across professions. Participants examined opportunities for matching population health needs with the right number, mix, distribution, and skill set of health workers while considering how supply and demand drive decisions within education and health. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussions from the workshop. Table of Contents Front Matter 1 Introduction 2 Matching the Health Workforce to Population Needs 3 Understanding and Applying a Model for Financing Health Professional Education 4 Reflections and Potential Next Steps for Building a Model Appendix A: Workshop Agenda Appendix B: Future Financing of Health Professional Education Workshop Background Document Appendix C: Speaker Biographical Sketches Appendix D: Forum-Sponsored Products

In September 2014, the Global Forum on Innovation in Health Professional Education and the Forum on Public-Private Partnerships for Global Health and Safety of the Institute of Medicine convened a workshop on empowering women and strengthening health systems and services through investing in nursing and midwifery enterprise. Experts in women's empowerment, development, health systems' capacity building, social enterprise and finance, and nursing and midwifery explored the intersections between and among these domains. Innovative and promising models for more sustainable health care delivery that embed women's empowerment in their missions were examined. Participants also discussed uptake and scale; adaptation, translation, and replication; financing; and collaboration and partnership. Empowering Women and Strengthening Health Systems and Services Through Investing in Nursing and Midwifery Enterprise summarizes the presentations and discussion of the workshop. This report highlights examples and explores broad frameworks for existing and potential intersections of different sectors that could lead to better health and well-being of women around the world, and how lessons learned from these examples might be applied in the United States. Table of Contents Front Matter 1 Introduction PART I 2 Women's Empowerment 3 Strengthening Health Systems PART II 4 Nursing and Midwifery Education and Enterprise 5 Country Perspectives 6 Innovations and Organizational Strategies to Strengthen Health Systems 7 Social Enterprise and Investment in Health PART III 8 Transferability of Models and Lessons Learned 9 Models for the United States and the Larger Global Context Appendix A: Workshop Agenda Appendix B: Speaker Biographical Sketches Appendix C: List of Participants Appendix D: Innovations in the Provision of Health Services Using Empowered Nurses and Midwives in the Philippines--Oscar F. Picazo, Valerie Gilbert T. Ulep, Ida Pantig, Danica Ortiz, Melanie Aldeon, and Nina Ashley de la Cruz

The Evidence for Violence Prevention Across the Lifespan and Around the World is the summary of a workshop convened in January 2013 by the Institute of Medicine's Forum on Global Violence Prevention to explore value and application of the evidence for violence prevention across the lifespan and around the world. As part of the Forum's mandate is to engage in multisectoral, multidirectional dialogue that explores crosscutting approaches to violence prevention, this workshop examined how existing evidence for violence prevention can continue to be expanded, disseminated, and implemented in ways that further the ultimate aims of improved individual well-being and safer communities. This report examines violence prevention interventions that have been proven to reduce different types of violence (e.g., child and elder abuse, intimate partner and sexual violence, youth and collective violence, and self-directed violence), identifies the common approaches most lacking in evidentiary support, and discusses ways that proven effective interventions can be integrated or otherwise linked with other prevention programs. Table of Contents Front Matter 1 Introduction Part I: Workshop Overview 2 The Need for Evidence 3 Generating and Integrating Evidence 4 Disseminating Evidence 5 Translating Evidence into Effective Action Part II: Papers and Commentary from Speakers II.1 Implementation and Scaling Violence Prevention Interventions--Dean Fixsen, Karen Blase, Melissa Van Dyke, and Allison Metz II.2 The Federal Role in Promoting Evidence-Based Violence Prevention Practices--Mary Lou Leary and Thomas P. Abt II.3 Evidence for Global Violence Prevention During Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood--Jennifer L. Matjasko and Sarah Bacon II.4 Can Interventions Reduce Recidivism and Revictimization Following Adult Intimate Partner Violence Incidents?--Christopher D. Maxwell and Amanda L. Robinson II.5 Integrating Evidence on Violence Prevention: An Introduction--Anthony Petrosino II.6 Making and Using Lists of Empirically Tested Programs: Value for Violence Interventions for Progress and Impact--Patrick H. Tolan References Appendixes Appendix A: Workshop Agenda Appendix B: Speaker Biographical Sketches