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The International Organization for Migration (IOM) is a United Nations related organization working in the field of migration. The organization implements operational assistance programmes for migrants , including internally displaced persons , refugees , and migrant workers .
The report is a highly collaborative venture, drawing on expertise of IOM staff specialising in migration programme delivery, policy development and migration research and analysis, as well as leading migration researchers from around the world. The report was peer reviewed by IOM experts and senior migration academics, including: [70]
In 1971, Dr John MG Davies was recruited from Cambridge University to head a new Pathology Branch at IOM, and to continue his research into asbestos-related diseases. An extensive programme of research on the toxicology of fibres has shown that persistence of some asbestos fibres in the lung as a result of their insolubility was an important determinant of carcinogenicity and fibrogenicity ...
Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century is a report on health care quality in the United States published by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) on March 1, 2001. A follow-up to the frequently cited 1999 IOM patient safety report To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System , Crossing the Quality Chasm advocates for ...
In October 2017, IOM X premiered a video series to help aspirant Bangladeshi migrants obtain the right documentation before the leave home for work. [6] IOM X research found that many Bangladeshis were at risk of deception after going abroad for employment due to not having the right visas and work permits from their broker.
The IOM is a registered association under the name "Leibniz-Institut für Oberflächenmodifizierung e.V." (Leibniz Institute of Surface Engineering) based in Leipzig, which, according to its statutes, pursues exclusively and directly non-profit and peaceful purposes.
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The institute was founded in 1970, under the congressional charter of the National Academy of Sciences as the Institute of Medicine. [2]On April 28, 2015, NAS membership voted in favor of reconstituting the membership of the IOM as a new National Academy of Medicine and establishing a new division on health and medicine within the NRC that has the program activities of the IOM at its core.