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Overview
The NIH Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH) works in partnership with the 27 NIH Institutes and Centers to ensure that research on women’s health and sex and gender differences is part of the scientific framework at NIH—and throughout the scientific community.
ORWH develops and supports scientific seminars, symposia, and workshops that highlight scientific advances, career development, and promising as well as accomplished researchers in this expanding field.
News releases about ORWH activities and women’s health research at NIH are listed here.
Scientific Seminars, Symposia, & Workshops
ORWH sponsors meetings that highlight scientific advances in basic, clinical, and translational research by the NIH scientific community and by leading researchers worldwide involved with research on women’s health.
National Women’s Health Week at NIH and other special events underscore the ORWH mission to promote women’s health research and its relevance to the lives of women, men, and their families.
Information about health awareness days and months that promote women’s health.
How to reach NIH experts on:
- sex differences research: building studies and reporting data
- health topics with significant sex differences
(such as autoimmune disorders, cardiac health, joint injuries, PTSD, addiction) - women’s health topics (such as reproduction, pelvic floor issues, vulvodynia, menopause)
- the field of women’s health research
- interdisciplinary research
- career development for women scientists
For ORWH-related news, reporters may contact Ann Mosher, ORWH communications director, ann.mosher@nih.gov, 301-402-1770.
