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Prize Competition for Enhancing Faculty Gender Diversity: Toolkit
This new Toolkit is an invaluable resource that shares the successful strategies of the winners of NIH’s Prize for Enhancing Faculty Gender Diversity in Biomedical and Behavioral Science challenge.
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Pathways to Prevention (P2P)’s Postpartum Health Initiative
The P2P workshop Identifying Risks and Interventions to Optimize Postpartum Health aims to address the maternal health crisis by identifying and closing research gaps in postpartum health. Two new reports from this workshop are now available which highlight opportunities and resources to improve postpartum outcomes.
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8th Annual Vivian W. Pinn Symposium
Join us for the 8th Annual Vivian W. Pinn Symposium on May 15, 2024, from 1:00 – 5:00 p.m. EDT. This year’s theme is “Synergy in Science: Innovations in Autoimmune Disease Research and Care.”
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Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Women’s Health Research
In coordination with the White House Initiative on Women’s Health Research, NIH issued a NOSI to highlight interest in receiving research applications focused on diseases and health conditions that predominantly affect women or are female specific.
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President Biden Issues Executive Order on Advancing Women’s Health Research and Innovation
NIH leadership was honored to attend the historic signing of President Biden’s new Executive Order (EO) on improving women’s health research. The EO will ensure women’s health is integrated across the federal research portfolio, prioritized in its funding, and supported in new research initiatives.
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Introducing the 2024 ORWH OSSD Science Policy Scholar Travel Award Recipient
ORWH recently awarded Mayte Restrepo, Ph.D., M.P.H., M.A., the Science Policy Scholar Travel Award. The $6,000 award will support Dr. Restrepo’s cost of attendance at the 2024 Organization for the Study of Sex Differences (OSSD) Annual Meeting held in Norway, where she will present on “Armed Conflict and Women’s Intimate Partner Violence Risk in Colombia.”
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New Issue of In Focus Explores Global Women's Health
The most recent edition of Women’s Health in Focus at NIH explores the progress made in global women’s health, as well as some of the key remaining challenges. The issue also covers the worsening maternal health crisis in the United States and spotlights the new NIH Director, Monica Bertagnolli, M.D.
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ORWH Announces The Menopause Society Travel Award
This award will provide two junior investigators up to $3,000 each to defray the cost of attending The Menopause Society Annual Meeting from September 10-14th, 2024, in Chicago, Illinois.
About ORWH
Established in 1990, the Office of Research on Women's Health serves as the focal point for women's health research at the National Institutes of Health. For over thirty years, ORWH has worked across the NIH and beyond to advance our understanding of sex and gender as influences in health and disease, support women in biomedical careers, and stimulate research to improve the health of women.
Director's Corner
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Janine Austin Clayton, M.D., FARVO
Janine Austin Clayton, M.D., FARVO, was appointed Associate Director for Research on Women’s Health and Director of the Office of Research on Women’s Health at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 2012. Dr. Clayton has strengthened NIH support for research on diseases, disorders, and conditions that affect women. She is the architect of the NIH policy requiring scientists to consider sex as a biological variable across the research spectrum, including research designs, analyses, and reporting in vertebrate animal and human studies. The policy serves as the keystone of NIH's initiative to enhance research reproducibility, rigor, and transparency.