NIH Working Group on Women in Biomedical Careers

The Working Group is co-chaired by the NIH Director, Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., and Office of Research on Women’s Health (ORWH) Acting Director, Janine Austin Clayton, M.D., and includes NIH Deputy Directors and Office of the Director (OD) senior staff, Institute and Center (IC) Directors, and other representatives of NIH intramural and extramural staff. The Working Group has sponsored national workshops focusing on mentoring women in biomedical careers and best practices for sustaining career success. The mandate for the NIH Working Group is:

• To maximize the potential of women scientists and engineers
• To consider how programs and policies it has created give attention to the NIH intramural communities and the concerns of intramural women
• To consider the broader context of girls and women in science
• To provide special attention to issues of barriers, minority women scientists and mentoring.

ORWH maintains the working group’s Web site, which provides a central focus for career development resources for women. ORWH also produces NIH Updates on Women in Science, an e-newsletter that includes profiles of outstanding early-career women scientists and examples of best practices for recruitment, retention, and advancement of women that are being implemented by U.S. research universities.

Reports from workshops sponsored by the working group are available: National Leadership Workshop on Mentoring Women in Biomedical Careers and Women in Biomedical Research: Best Practices for Sustaining Career Success workshops

For more information on the NIH Working Group on Women in Biomedical Careers and resources, visit: http://womeninscience.nih.gov/

ORWH Support for Intraumural Training and Education Programs

ORWH Summer Internship Programs for Students

For more information about ORWH’s Career Development Programs, contact Joyce Rudick, Director, Programs and Management: rudickj@mail.nih.gov