The National Academy of Medicine (NAM) has selected seven outstanding health professionals for the class of 2024 NAM fellowships. The fellows were chosen on the basis of their professional qualifications, reputations, and accomplishments and the relevance of their current field expertise to the work of the NAM and the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM; also known as the National Academies).

Jennifer Bacci, Pharm.D., MPH, FCCP, BCACP, has been selected for the 2024–2026 NAM Fellowship in Pharmacy. Bacci is the Endowed Associate Professor of Innovative Pharmacy Practice and co-director of the Center for Pharmacy Practice Transformation at the University of Washington School of Pharmacy. Her research program applies implementation science to evaluate and advance patient care models in community pharmacy practice. Her major scientific and practice contributions focus on optimizing and exploring existing and novel community pharmacy–based services.

Fellows will collaborate with eminent researchers, policy experts, and clinicians from across the country during their 2-year fellowship. They will also participate in initiatives convened by the National Academies to provide nonpartisan, scientific, and evidence-based guidance to policymakers, academic leaders, health care administrators, and the public.

“I am delighted to welcome these exceptional health science scholars into the NAM fellowship program,” said NAM President Victor J. Dzau. “The fellows will play an active role in our process of developing comprehensive policy solutions to provide health advice to the nation and globally, and will gain access to a network of mentors to support them throughout their careers.”

Fellows will continue in their primary academic or research posts while engaging part-time over a 2-year period in National Academies health and science policy work. They will also work with an expert study committee or roundtable related to their professional interests, including contributing to reports or other products. A flexible research grant will be awarded to each fellow.

The overall purpose of the NAM fellowship program is to enable talented, early-career health science scholars to participate actively in the work of the NAM and the National Academies and to further their careers as future leaders in the field.

The NAM, established in 1970 as the Institute of Medicine, is an independent organization of prominent professionals from diverse fields including health and medicine; the natural, social, and behavioral sciences; and beyond. It serves alongside the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering as an adviser to the nation and the international community. Through its domestic and global initiatives, the NAM works to address critical issues in health, medicine, and related policy and inspire positive action across sectors. The NAM collaborates closely with its peer academies and other divisions within the National Academies.