ORWH recently published the report, Perspectives of Advancing NIH Research to Inform and Improve the Health of Women. This report provides background on the public health needs of the three priority topics of MMM, chronic debilitating conditions, and cervical cancer; current NIH activities in women's health research and the three priority topics; research gaps on the health of women; and research opportunities at NIH.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Research on Women’s Health (ORWH) published a request for information (RFI), NOT-OD-22-186, to solicit input from stakeholders across the scientific research, advocacy, and patient communities, as well as the public, to inform the topics that will be included in the forthcoming NIH-Wide Strategic Plan for Research on the Health of Women.
ORWH’s Pearls of Wisdom series features Noni Byrnes, Ph.D., Director of the NIH Center for Scientific Review (CSR). In this video clip, Dr. Byrnes advises to be proactive in your job search and “don’t undersell yourself or underestimate yourself.”
ORWH is pleased to announce a new program, Galvanizing Health Equity Through Novel and Diverse Educational Resources (GENDER) R25 (RFA-OD-22-015).
The latest issue of Women’s Health in Focus at NIH explores the menopausal transition, the stage of a woman’s life that generally begins between ages 45 and 55 and ends at menopause, marked by her final menstrual period.
July 8, 2022
ORWH’s Pearls of Wisdom series features Jon R. Lorsch, Ph.D., Director of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS). In his video clip, Dr. Lorsch discusses how “climbing the ladder” is a potential barrier to advancement.
The Pearls of Wisdom series features Debara L. Tucci, M.D., M.S., M.B.A., Director, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD). In this Pearls of Wisdom video clip, Dr. Tucci talks about how to stay motivated.
On October 5, 2021, ORWH hosted a forum, Effective Approaches to Fostering Faculty Gender Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Celebrating Progress , to formally recognize and promote the winners’ effective, evidence-based practices, address challenges, and improve the existing career paradigm for many women in biomedical and behavioral science.
The Pearls of Wisdom series features Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., former Director of the NIH. In this Pearls of Wisdom video clip, Dr. Collins discusses how to increase the opportunity for women’s advancement into leadership roles.
The recently expanded Pearls of Wisdom series features Diana W. Bianchi, M.D., Director of the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. In this Pearls of Wisdom video clip, Dr. Bianchi discusses resiliency through life challenges.
The ORWH e-learning course, Bench to Bedside: Integrating Sex and Gender to Improve Health, offers up to six CME Credits.
The recently expanded Pearls of Wisdom series features Rena N. D’Souza, D.D.S., M.S., Ph.D., Director of the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR). In this Pearls’ video, Dr. D’Souza responds to the question, “What do you consider to be success?”
The next session of the “Diverse Voices: Intersectionality and the Health of Women” series will focus on COVID-19 and women.
Jeff Todd, President and CEO of Prevent Blindness, interviewed the ORWH Director, Janine Austin Clayton, M.D., FARVO, about women’s eye health and safety.
May 4, 2022
The recently expanded Pearls of Wisdom series features Lindsey A. Criswell, M.D., M.P.H., D.Sc., Director of the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS). In this Pearls’ video, Dr. Criswell talks about effective leadership styles.
ORWH will host the 6th Annual Vivian W. Pinn Symposium. Held annually during National Women's Health Week, the symposium is ORWH's signature event, honoring the first full-time Director of ORWH. The title of this year’s symposium is “The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Careers of Women Scientists."
This year is the 5th anniversary of one of ORWH’s signature research programs, the U3 Administrative Supplement Program, which supports research focused on women of populations often understudied, underrepresented, and underreported in clinical research. ORWH marks this important milestone with the launch of the U3 Interdisciplinary Research webpage.
April is National Minority Health Month and this year ORWH is highlighting the important roles individuals and organizations play in helping to reduce health disparities and improve the health of racial and ethnic minorities. The recently expanded Pearls of Wisdom series features Eliseo J. Pérez-Stable, M.D., Director for the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD).
Produced and funded by the NIH Office of Research on Women's Health, the Pearls of Wisdom online series of short videos aims to inspire, motivate, and inform individuals at all stages of their biomedical careers, with a particular focus on women in STEMM fields.
The NIH published two emergency Requests for Applications (RFAs) to solicit applications to participate in Phase III of the Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics Underserved Populations (RADx-UP) initiative.
The latest issue of Women’s Health in Focus at NIH explores NIH research efforts to understand and address medical problems common among transgender women, individuals whose sex assigned at birth was male but who identify as women.
The “SABV Primer: Train the Trainer” course provides researchers and trainers within the biomedical research community the tools to account for and expertly teach the NIH Policy on Sex as a Biological Variable (SABV).
The biennial report details the NIH-wide programs and accomplishments carried out in fulfillment of ORWH’s core mission. It also includes a summary of ORWH activities during FY 2019-2020.
December 23, 2021
This NOSI highlights the availability of administrative supplements to support research focusing on sex and gender influences on human health.
December 23, 2021
This funding opportunity encourages projects examining common sources of disparities in the health of women and girls, with an emphasis on those that consider intersectionality, multidimensional models, and perspectives from multiple disciplines.
ORWH’s new quarterly lecture series, titled “Diverse Voices: Intersectionality and the Health of Women,” will amplify research that incorporates an intersectional framework and addresses the breadth of topics relevant to the health of women.
The awards defray the costs of attending the Organization for the Study of Sex Differences (OSSD) Annual Meeting on May 2-5, 2022, in Marina del Rey, CA.
At this year’s meeting, Tracy L. Bale, Ph.D., of the University of Maryland School of Medicine will present the keynote address, titled “Extracellular Vesicles as Stress Signals: Identifying Novel Biomarkers in Maternal and Fetal Health.”
This event will include two major lectures—the 5th Ruth L. Kirschstein Memorial Lectureship and the Legacy of Leadership Lectureship—as well as presentations on research findings by leading BIRCWH Scholars and a live Q&A session. An e-poster session featuring abstracts from BIRCWH Scholars will occur in the afternoon.
NIH recently released a funding opportunity announcement titled American Women: Assessing Risk Epidemiologically (AWARE) (R01 Clinical Trial Optional).
This webinar will increase awareness of and discuss sustainable strategies for integrating gender-based violence prevention/intervention services in diverse care settings.
This e-learning course gives users a thorough and up-to-date understanding of NIH requirements for factoring sex as a biological variable into research designs.
October 22, 2021
The series will include a consideration of the health care of incarcerated women, discussion of midlife health disparities identified by the Study of Women’s Health Across the Nation, and an interview with Vivian Pinn, M.D., the first full-time Director of ORWH.
The 2-day workshop will review the state of science on cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk across the lifespan of women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) and identify knowledge gaps and opportunities in PCOS-related cardiovascular disease research.
Research in the U.S. confirms that COVID-19 is disproportionately affecting populations that were already experiencing health disparities and medical or social vulnerabilities.
The workshop will focus on researching interconnected physiological systems, investigating multicomponent interventions of therapeutic systems, and examining the impact of these interventions on multisystem or multiorgan outcomes.
NIH recently awarded $50,000 each to 10 institutions as part of a prize competition recognizing their biomedical and behavioral science departments for enhancing gender diversity and equity among their faculties.
This funding opportunity complements and expands research support through the COBRE program and will advance the capacity of research on women’s health in Institutional Development Award (IDeA) States, areas that have historically received low levels of NIH funding.
The key topics discussed at this event will be rising maternal morbidity and mortality rates, increasing rates of chronic debilitating conditions in women, and stagnant cervical cancer survival rates.
This funding opportunity announcement solicits secondary analyses of existing datasets to provide evidence about appropriate strategies for long-term osteoporosis therapies, including drug holidays (i.e., physician-directed temporary cessation of pharmaceutical treatment), and to understand their risks and benefits more thoroughly.
The webinar will feature presentations by two panelists, Grace M. Aldrovandi, M.D., of the UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital and Susan E. Cohn, M.D., M.P.H., of the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, followed by a Q&A session.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office on Women’s Health recently released a funding opportunity to solicit applications for State, local, territorial, and Tribal partnership projects designed to identify and reduce violence-related deaths among pregnant people and postpartum people.
Responsible sharing of data and biospecimens relies on robust informed consent practices and clear, efficient communication of the potential risks and benefits of sharing.
NIH has awarded $50,000 each to 10 institutions for their efforts in enhancing faculty gender diversity.
A recent request for information (RFI) from NIH invites public comments from the extramural scientific community, professional societies, and the general public to help identify gaps in women’s health research.
ORWH Social and Behavioral Scientist Administrator Elizabeth Barr, Ph.D., and colleagues recently published “Impact of Dedicated Women’s Outreach Workers (WOWs) on Recruitment of Women in ACTG Clinical Studies” in HIV Research & Clinical Practice.
June 24, 2021
ORWH recently released Notice of Participation of the Office of Research on Women’s Health (ORWH) in PAR-20-214, “Research to Improve Native American Health (R21 Clinical Trials Optional)” (NOT-OD-21-132), and Notice of Participation of the Office of Research on Women’s Health (ORWH) in PAR-20-238, “Intervention Research to Improve Native American Health (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)” (NOT-OD-21-133).
This year’s symposium, titled “Integrating Sex and Gender into Biomedical Research as a Path for Better Science and Innovation,” focused on illustrating the scientific, societal, and economic opportunities of integrating sex and gender into biomedical research.
NICHD’s HPP is a collaborative research effort to develop tools for studying placental development and function in real time and in a safe, noninvasive manner.
This lecture series honors Vice Admiral Vivek H. Murthy, M.D., the 19th and 21st Surgeon General of the United States.