The NIH Sex and Gender in Health and Disease (SGHD) Scientific Interest Group (SIG) will be hosting a webinar, titled Sex as a Biological Variable (SABV) Policy and Sex-Inclusive Research: Making Progress, Taking Stock, and Visioning the Future on November 30, 2023, from 1:30 PM to 3:00 PM EDT.
Janine Austin Clayton, M.D., FARVO, NIH Associate Director for Research on Women’s Health and Director of the NIH Office of Research on Women’s Health, will provide opening remarks. Three distinguished speakers Drs. Natasha A. Karp, Shirin Heidari, and Barbara Stranger will highlight progress and discuss challenges across three important domains of SABV:
- Importance of rigorous experimental design in biomedical research
- Transparent and inclusive scientific reporting
- Sex-inclusive approaches as fundamental to advancing biomedical research
A discussion of the biomedical, social, and ethical complexities of sex-inclusive research will follow the presentations.
Visit the event page for additional details and the registration link.