64th Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Research on Women’s Health (ACRWH)
Date and Time
– October 7, 2025, 4:00 PM EDTSave the date
Event Information
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
Agenda
| Time | Agenda | Presenter |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00 a.m.–9:15 a.m. | Call to Order | Lucia Hindorff, Ph.D., M.P.H. Executive Secretary, ACRWH Senior Advisor for Scientific and Organizational Strategy, Office of Research on Women’s Health, NIH |
| 9:15 a.m.–10:00 a.m. | ORWH Director’s Report and Welcome | Janine A. Clayton, M.D., FARVO Chair, ACRWH Associate Director for Research on Women’s Health, NIH Director, Office of Research on Women’s Health, NIH |
| 10:00 a.m.–10:45 a.m. | IC Director’s Report | Gary H. Gibbons, M.D. Director, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, NIH |
| 10:45 a.m.–11:10 a.m. | Implementing a Maternal health and PRegnancy Outcomes Vision for Everyone (IMPROVE) Update | Nahida Chakhtoura, M.D. Branch Chief, Pregnancy and Perinatology Branch, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, NIH |
| 11:10 a.m.–11:20 a.m. | Break | |
| 11:20 a.m.–11:50 a.m. | NIH Inclusion Report | Dawn Corbett, M.P.H. NIH Inclusion Policy Officer, Office of Policy for Extramural Research Administration, Office of Extramural Research, NIH |
| 11:50 a.m.–12:15 p.m. | Open Discussion | ACRWH Members |
| 12:15 p.m.–12:25 p.m. | Group Photos | |
| 12:25 p.m.–1:20 p.m. | Lunch | |
| 1:20 p.m.–1:30 p.m. | Welcome and Introduction | Regine Douthard, M.D., M.P.H. Senior Medical Officer Co-Chair, 35th Anniversary Planning Committee, Office of Research on Women’s Health, NIH |
| Janine A. Clayton, M.D., FARVO Chair, ACRWH Associate Director for Research on Women’s Health, NIH Director, Office of Research on Women’s Health, NIH | ||
| 1:30 p.m.–1:50 p.m. | Opening Remarks from NIH Director | Jay Bhattacharya, M.D., Ph.D. Director, NIH |
| 1:50 p.m.–2:25 p.m. | Keynote Presentation: Advancing Women’s Health: ORWH’s Role in Transforming Research Gaps into Breakthroughs | Chloe E. Bird, Ph.D., FAAAS, FAAHB Director, Center for Health Equity Research, Tufts Medical Center Sara Murray Jordan Professor of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine Senior Sociologist, RAND Corporation |
| 2:25 p.m.–3:50 p.m. | Panel Welcome and Introduction Cutting-Edge Advances in Women’s Health | Rajeev K. Agarwal, Ph.D. Senior Research Program Officer Co-Chair, 35th Anniversary Planning Committee, Office of Research on Women’s Health, NIH |
| Moderator: Ayush Giri, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Associate Director, Center for Research on Women’s Health, Vanderbilt University Medical Center ACRWH Member, NIH | ||
| Rewiring Immunity: The Metabolic Control of Autoimmune and Chronic Inflammatory Diseases | Mariana Kaplan, M.D. NIH Distinguished Investigator Chief, Systemic Autoimmunity Branch Deputy Scientific Director, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, NIH | |
| Assessing the Impact of PFAS and Microplastics Exposures on Women’s Health, Reproductive Health, and Across the Lifespan | Lida Chatzi, M.D., Ph.D. Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences Director, USC Center on Translational Exposomics Research Director, USC Superfund Research Program Deputy Director, Southern California Environmental Health Sciences Center, University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine | |
| The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Advancing Women’s Health through Data Science and Innovation | Sheida Nabavi, Ph.D. Associate Professor, School of Computing, University of Connecticut | |
| Discussant Presentation | Ayush Giri, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Associate Director, Center for Research on Women’s Health, Vanderbilt University Medical Center ACRWH Member, NIH | |
| Panel Q&A | Speakers & ACRWH Members | |
| 3:50 p.m.–4:00 p.m. | Closing Remarks | Janine A. Clayton, M.D., FARVO Chair, ACRWH Associate Director for Research on Women’s Health, NIH Director, Office of Research on Women’s Health, NIH |