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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.
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.
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.