60th Meeting on the Advisory Committee on Research on Women's Health (ACRWH)

Date and Time

– April 9, 2024, 4:35 PM EDT

Hybrid.

Event Information

The 60th Meeting of the NIH Advisory Committee on Research on Women's Health (ACRWH) will provide a forum for ACRWH members to give advice and make recommendations on priority issues affecting women's health and sex differences research.

The NIH Revitalization Act of 1993 established the ACRWH, a Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA) committee, to give advice and make recommendations on priority issues affecting women's health and sex differences research. ACRWH members are selected from among physicians, practitioners, scientists, and other health professionals who are not federal employees.

The ACRWH's responsibilities are to:

  • Advise the ORWH director on appropriate NIH research activities in women's health
  • Review the women's health research portfolio for NIH
  • Survey goals for scientific career development
  • Assess inclusion of women and minorities in NIH clinical research

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9:30 a.m.–9:45 a.m. 

Call to Order

Vivian Ota Wang, Ph.D., FACMG, CGC
Executive Secretary, ACRWH 
Deputy Director, Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH), NIH

9:45 a.m.–10:30 a.m. 

ORWH Director’s Report 

Janine A. Clayton, M.D., FARVO
Chair, ACRWH 
Associate Director for Research on Women’s Health, NIH  
Director, ORWH, NIH 

10:30 a.m.–11:00 a.m. 

 

NIH Inclusion Update

 

Dawn Corbett, M.P.H.
NIH Inclusion Policy Officer, Office of Extramural Research, NIH

 

11:00 a.m.–11:05 a.m. 

 

Introduction of the NIH Deputy Director for Program Coordination, Planning, and Strategic Initiatives

 

Tara A. Schwetz, Ph.D.
NIH Deputy Director, Program Coordination, Planning, and Strategic Initiatives, NIH
Director, Division of Program Coordination, Planning, and Strategic Initiatives (DPCPSI), OD, NIH

 

11:05 a.m.–11:20 a.m. 

Open Discussion  

Janine A. Clayton, M.D., FARVO
Chair, ACRWH 
Associate Director for Research on Women’s Health, NIH  
Director, ORWH, NIH 

11:20 a.m.–11:50 a.m. 

 

Enhancing Community Engagement at ORWH

Elizabeth Barr, Ph.D.
Social and Behavioral Scientist Administrator, ORWH, NIH 

11:50 a.m.–12:00 p.m. 

Group Photo 

  

12:00 p.m.–12:45 p.m. 

Lunch Break 

 

12:45 p.m.–1:45 p.m. 

NIH Director's Report

Monica M. Bertagnolli, M.D.
Director, NIH

1:45 p.m.–2:25 p.m. 

White House Women's Health Research Initiative Update

Carolyn Mazure, Ph.D.
White House Initiative on Women's Health Research Chair and Norma Weinberg Spungen and Joan Lebson Bildner Professor in Women’s Health Research, Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology, Yale University

 

2:25 p.m.–3:45 p.m. 

Panel: Middle-Life Health of Women and Menopause

 

Moderator: Chhanda Dutta, Ph.D.  
Chief, Clinical Gerontology Branch, Division of Geriatrics and Clinical Gerontology, National Institute on Aging, NIH

 

Women and Alzheimer’s Disease Risk Begins in Midlife During the Menopausal Transition: Implications for Prevention and Treatment

 

Roberta Diaz Brinton, Ph.D.  
Director, Center for Innovation in Brain Science, University of Arizona Health Sciences

 

Impact of the Midlife and Menopause on Bone Health: What We Know, What We Need to Learn

 

Sherri-Ann Burnett-Bowie, M.D., M.P.H.
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School

 

Timing of Menopausal Hormone Therapy and Reduction of All-Cause Mortality and Cardiovascular Disease

 

Howard Neil Hodis, M.D.
Harry J. Bauer and Dorothy Bauer Rawlins 
Professor of Cardiology, Professor of Medicine, Population and Public Health Sciences, and Molecular Pharmacology and Toxicology, Director of Atherosclerosis Research Unit

 

3:45 p.m.–4:05 p.m. 

Concept Clearance: NIH Office of Autoimmune Disease Research (OADR-ORWH) Notice of Special Interest (NOSI)

Victoria Shanmugam, MBBS, MRCP, FACR, CCD
Director, NIH Office of Autoimmune Disease Research in ORWH (OADR-ORWH), NIH 

4:05 p.m.–4:30 p.m. 

Open Discussion

Janine A. Clayton, M.D., FARVO
Chair, ACRWH 
Associate Director for Research on Women’s Health, NIH  
Director, ORWH, NIH 

4:30 p.m.–4:35 p.m. 

Closing Statement

Janine A. Clayton, M.D., FARVO
Chair, ACRWH 
Associate Director for Research on Women’s Health, NIH  
Director, ORWH, NIH 

Special Accommodations

Sign language interpreting services are available upon request. Individuals who need interpreting services and/or other reasonable accommodations to participate in this event should contact Ashley Benitez at ashley.benitez@nih.gov. Requests should be made at least five business days prior to the event.