The most recent edition of Women’s Health In Focus at NIH explores women and mental health across the lifespan. The feature story highlights several areas of research on the biological and social drivers of women’s mental health. It describes how leading experts in the field are working to unravel the complex web of genetic, social, hormonal, and neurobiological influences on mental health disorders.  

The “Scientist Spotlight” article features an interview with Jill M. Goldstein, Ph.D., M.P.H., founder and director of Innovation Center on Sex Differences in Medicine (ICON-✘) at Massachusetts General Hospital and professor of psychiatry and medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Goldstein’s research focuses on the comorbidity of depression, cardiovascular disease, and Alzheimer’s disease by applying a sex differences lens to understand their shared pathophysiology. 

The “Institutional Spotlight” article features the University of Minnesota Medical School Center for Women in Medicine and Science (CWIMS), which was created after a university-conducted environmental scan to assess gender equity suggested the need for several institutional-level changes. CWIMS now serves 27 medical school departments and over 3,700 faculty members.  

Read the latest issue of In Focus 7.2 online.

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