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White House Initiative on Women’s Health Research (WHI-WHR) Workshop
“The Next Frontier in Women’s Health at the NIH: Harnessing Innovation to Power Interdisciplinary Research” workshop was held on October 29, 2024, at the White House. It featured talks from NIH and White House Gender Policy Council leadership.
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Awardees Announced for NOFOs on Understanding Chronic Conditions Understudied Among Women
The awards will fund research on chronic conditions that are understudied among women and/or that disproportionately affect populations of women who are understudied, underrepresented, and underreported in biomedical research.
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Health Influences of Gender as a Social and Structural Variable Webinar
The webinar on January 14 will gather the research community and program staff from across NIH to discuss Institute-, Center-, and Office-specific interests related to health influences of gender as a social and structural variable.
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RECAP: The 2024 Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women’s Health (BIRCWH) Annual Meeting
Discover the recap of ORWH’s Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women’s Health (BIRCWH) Annual Meeting, which took place on October 1, 2024.
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Introducing the 2024 Office of Autoimmune Disease Research R56 Awardees
The 2024 Office of Autoimmune Disease Research R56 awards will support short-term, highly meritorious extramural research focused on autoimmune disease topics highly impactful to quality of life and survival.
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Non-Communicable Diseases Funding Opportunities
ORWH is supporting research on non-communicable diseases in low- and middle-income countries and among Native American populations in the United States.
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ORWH Director Elected to the National Academy of Medicine
The National Academy of Medicine (NAM) has announced that ORWH Director, Janine Austin Clayton, M.D., FARVO, has been elected as a new NAM member.
Featured Publications
ORWH Quarterly Publication: Women's Health in Focus at NIH
Within these pages, you will find thought-provoking information about women's health, learn about new research NIH is funding, and find important information for and about women scientists in the biomedical field.
- Opioids and Chronic Pain: Impact of the NIH Pathways to Prevention Evidence-Based Workshop Program, Prevention Science, 2023
- Public Priorities in Women's Health: Analysis of Request for Information Published to Inform "Advancing NIH Research on the Health of Women: A 2021 Conference," Journal of Women's Health, 2023
- Current gaps and opportunities in screening, preventing, and treatment of cervical cancer, Cancer, 2022
- Perspectives from Advancing National Institutes of Health Research to Inform and Improve the Health of Women, Obstetrics & Gynecology, 2022
- The gender health innovation gap: A perspective from the NIH Office of Research on Women's Health, Med, 2022
- Sex as a Biological Variable in Cardiovascular Diseases: JACC Focus Seminar, Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 2022
- Community voices: NIH working toward inclusive excellence by promoting and supporting women in science, Nature Communications, 2022
- Cross-Sectional Analyses of High-Impact Pain Across Pregnancy Status by Race and Ethnicity, Journal of Women's Health, 2022
- Research on Women's Health: Ready for the Future, Journal of Women's Health, 2022
- Fifth anniversary of the Sex and Gender Equity in Research (SAGER) guidelines: taking stock and looking ahead, BMJ Global Health, 2021
- The roles of sex and gender in women’s eye health disparities in the United States, Biology of Sex Differences, 2021
- USPSTF Approach to Addressing Sex and Gender When Making Recommendations for Clinical Preventive Services, JAMA, 2021
- Developing the Process and Tracking the Implementation and Evaluation of the National Institutes of Health Strategic Plan for Women's Health Research, Global Advances in Health and Medicine, 2021
- The Integration of Sex and Gender Considerations into Biomedical Research: Lessons from International Funding Agencies, The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, 2021
- Special Issue of Journal of Women's Health on Maternal Morbidity & Mortality
- Pregnant in the United States in the COVID19 pandemic: a collision of crises we cannot ignore, Journal of the National Medical Association, 2021
- HIV-Related Stigma Research as a Priority at the National Institutes of Health, AIDS and Behavior, 2021
- The Intersection of Maternal Morbidity and Mortality and Intimate Partner Violence in the United States, Current Women's Health Reviews, 2020
- The role of gynecologists in screening older women for ocular surface disease symptoms, Menopause, 2020
- Sex as a Biological Variable: A 5-year progress report and call to action, Journal of Women’s Health, 2020
- Using the Ecological Systems Theory to Understand Black/White Disparities in Maternal Morbidity and Mortality in the United States, Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, 2020
See additional journal publications in Director's Corner Publications page.
Director's Corner
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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.