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Introducing the NIH-Wide Strategic Plan for Research on the Health of Women 2024-2028
The new Strategic Plan serves a comprehensive roadmap that will guide and inform NIH-supported research on various diseases and health conditions that affect women.
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Watch Now: Forging into the Future: Research on the Health of Women at NIH and Beyond
NIH Director Dr. Monica Bertagnolli shares her vision for the future of research on women’s health in this video launching the new NIH-Wide Strategic Plan for Research on the Health of Women 2024-2028.
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Women’s Health Visionary Award Bestowed to ORWH Director, Dr. Janine Clayton
ORWH Director Dr. Janine Clayton was honored at the Society for Women’s Health Research 2024 Annual Awards Gala with the Women’s Health Visionary Award for her contributions to advancing women’s health.
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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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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.
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.
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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.