On April 21, 2026, the Committee on Science, Technology, and Law (CSTL) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held a workshop in Washington, DC titled “Achieving a Just Response to Sudden Unexpected Infant Deaths.” Sudden Unexpected Infant Death (SUID) denotes the death of an apparently healthy child under the age of one from undetermined causes. It is an umbrella term applied to the sudden death of an infant at the outset of an investigation, prior to the final certification of causes that include sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), death from unknown or unexplained causes, and death from accidental suffocation and strangulation in bed (ASSB). […]