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Hybrid.
2024-04-09T20:35:00Z 2024-04-09T13:30:00Z 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
Agenda
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School | |
| Timing of Menopausal Hormone Therapy and Reduction of All-Cause Mortality and Cardiovascular Disease | 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.
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