Universities should experiment to improve caregiver support, U.S. National Academies says New report recommends paid leave, flexible work policies, and changes in academic culture

As academic institutions are facing increasingly fierce competition for a highly skilled workforce, support for caregivers could be a key selling point, committee member Robert Phillips Jr., founding executive director of the Center for Professionalism and Value in Health Care, pointed out during today’s webinar. “Our universities, our science settings, could really enhance their competitiveness within the country—for funding, for success—by creating a workplace that not just accommodates caregiving, but that embraces it and makes it possible.”