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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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NIH Panel Explores Endometriosis Advances, Emphasizes Awareness
ORWH Director Janine Austin Clayton, M.D. FARVO, joined a panel to discuss new advances in endometriosis research and the documentary Below the Belt, which follows a group of people as they navigate their endometriosis symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment.
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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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New Interview with ORWH Director Dr. Clayton Discusses “The Power of Why: Women’s History Month”
In celebration of Women’s History Month, this interview highlights why it is crucial for women to be leaders in science, creative ways ORWH helps scientists succeed, Dr. Clayton’s career journey, and the new White House initiative supporting women’s health research.
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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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Meet the 2023 EXACT-PLAN Awardees
The Office of Autoimmune Disease Research in the Office of Research on Women’s Health awarded six researchers for the EXposome in Autoimmune Disease Collaborating Teams PLANning (EXACT-PLAN) Awards. The awards are intended to enable institutions to develop a research framework and strategies to support coordination among studies, collaborative research projects, and sites.
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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.
View the new Trans-NIH Strategic Plan for Women’s Health Research (2019–2023)