57th Meeting of the NIH Advisory Committee on Research on Women’s Health
Date and Time
– October 18, 2022, 04:00 PM EDTVirtual only.
The 57th Meeting of the NIH Advisory Committee on Research on Women's Health (ACRWH) will provide a forum for ACRWH members to give advice and make recommendations on priority issues affecting women's health and sex differences research.
The NIH Revitalization Act of 1993 established the Advisory Committee on Research on Women's Health (ACRWH), a Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA) committee, to give advice and make recommendations on priority issues affecting women's health and sex differences research. ACRWH members are selected from among physicians, practitioners, scientists, and other health professionals who are not federal employees.
The ACRWH's responsibilities are to:
- Advise the ORWH director on appropriate NIH research activities in women's health
- Review the women's health research portfolio for NIH
- Survey goals for scientific career development
- Assess inclusion of women and minorities in NIH clinical research
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Agenda (Download)
| 9:30 a.m.–9:45 a.m. | Call to Order | Samia Noursi, Ph.D. Executive Secretary, ACRWH Associate Director, Science Policy, Planning, and Analysis, NIH Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH) |
9:45 a.m.–10:30 a.m.
| ORWH Director's Report | Janine A. Clayton, M.D., FARVO Chair, ACRWH Associate Director for Research on Women's Health, NIH Director, ORWH |
| 10:30 a.m.–11:00 a.m. | Accelerating Medicines Partnership® Autoimmune and Immune-Mediated Diseases (AMP® AIM) Program | Lindsey A. Criswell, M.D., M.P.H., D.Sc. Director, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases |
| 11:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m. | How Climate Change Impacts Women and Their Health | Rick Woychik, Ph.D. Director, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) |
| 12:00 p.m.–12:30 p.m. | Open Discussion | Janine A. Clayton, M.D., FARVO |
| 12:30 p.m. | Virtual Group Photo | |
| 12:30 p.m.–1:00 p.m. | LUNCH BREAK | |
| 1:00 p.m.–2:30 p.m. | Panel: Epidemiologic Contribution to Understanding the Environmental Impact on Women’s Health | Regine Douthard, M.D. Panel Moderator Senior Medical Officer, ORWH |
| Women’s Risk of Endometriosis (WREN) Study | Kristen Upson, Ph.D., M.P.H. Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Michigan State University Postdoctoral Fellow, NIEHS | |
| Study of Environment, Lifestyle & Fibroids (SELF) | Quaker E. Harmon, M.D., Ph.D. Staff Scientist, Women’s Health Group, NIEHS | |
| The NIEHS Sister Study | Dale Sandler, Ph.D. Senior Investigator, Chronic Disease Epidemiology Group, NIEHS | |
| 2:30 p.m.–2:50 p.m. | 2024–2028 NIH-Wide Strategic Plan for Research on the Health of Women: Content Area Discussion and Member Vote | Samia Noursi, Ph.D. Kelly Chandler, Ph.D. Ching-yi Shieh, Ph.D. |
| 2:50 p.m.–3:20 p.m. | Gender and Measurement: Concept Clearance | Elizabeth Barr, Ph.D. Social and Behavioral Scientist Administrator, ORWH |
| 3:20 p.m.–3:30 p.m. | ORWH E-Learning Courses: Demonstration | Elizabeth Barr, Ph.D. Emily Gericke |
| 3:30 p.m.–3:55 p.m. | Open Discussion | Janine A. Clayton, M.D., FARVO |
| 3:55 p.m.–4:00 p.m. | Closing Statement | Janine A. Clayton, M.D., FARVO |
Sign language interpreting services are available upon request. Individuals who need interpreting services and/or other reasonable accommodations to participate in this event should contact Sarah Heilman at sarah.heilman@nih.gov.