Our Products & Services
The National Academies offer a wide variety of products and services:
- Consensus studies are the most common type of service. The Academies appoint a group of distinguished scientists, engineers, healthcare professionals, and others with the appropriate expertise who meet to review the state of knowledge in a particular subject. These scientists, who often have diverse backgrounds and ideas, work together to reach consensus on timely, often controversial, topics.
- Workshops and symposia bring together policy makers, members of industry, scientists, engineers, healthcare professionals, and sometimes laypeople to exchange information and views and to discuss timely issues. There may be anywhere from 25 to 250 participants. Proceedings or workshop summaries are often produced.
- Roundtables are discussion groups that exchange information and ideas but do not produce reports.
- Postdoctoral fellowships and internships are offered for scientists, physicians, and engineers who are interested in science policy.
A representative sampling of recent Academies products includes both science-based analytical reports and the special audience-targeted products based on them, such as brochures, pamphlets, posters, and Web sites.
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