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Description of Event
Virtual only.
2023-04-12T19:50:00Z 2023-04-12T13:30:00Z Event Information
The 58th 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 Advisory Committee on Research on Women's Health (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
Videocast Link: https://videocast.nih.gov/watch=49390
Agenda
| 9:30 a.m.–9:45 a.m. | Call to Order | Executive Secretary, ACRWH Associate Director, Science Policy, Planning, and Analysis, NIH Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH) | |
| 9:45 a.m.–10:30 a.m. | ORWH Director's Report | Chair, ACRWH Associate Director for Research on Women’s Health, NIH Director, ORWH, NIH | |
| 10:45 a.m.–11:30 a.m. | NCATS' Efforts to Advance Women's Health Through Translational Science | Director, National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, NIH | |
| 11:30 a.m.–12:00 p.m. | NIH Inclusion Update | NIH Inclusion Policy Officer, Office of Extramural Research, NIH | |
| 12:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m. | Open Discussion | ||
| 12:30 p.m. | Virtual Group Photo | ||
| 12:30 p.m.–1:00 p.m. | Lunch Break | ||
| 1:00 p.m.–2:00 p.m. | Autoimmune Research Spotlight | Senior Research Program Officer, ORWH, NIH | |
| Innate immune dysregulation and autoimmunity: Sex differences and impact on organ damage in women with lupus | Chief, Systemic Autoimmunity Branch, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), NIH | ||
| Sex differences among patients with different forms of autoimmune muscle disease | Chief, Muscle Disease Section, NIAMS, NIH | ||
| 2:00 p.m.–2:30 p.m. | 2024–2028 NIH-Wide Strategic Plan for Research on the Health of Women: Update | Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Development and Professor of Emergency Medicine, University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville Health Science Policy Analyst, ORWH, NIH | |
| 2:30 p.m.–3:00 p.m. | Concept Clearance: Reentry, Reintegration, and Retraining Supplements | Associate Director for Careers, ORWH, NIH | |
| 3:00 p.m.–3:15 p.m. | Concept Clearance: Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women's Health (BIRCWH)—Postdoctoral Opportunities | | |
| 3:15 p.m.–3:45 p.m. | Open Discussion | | |
| 3:45 p.m.–3:50 p.m. | Closing Statement | | |
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 Sarah Heilman at sarah.heilman@nih.gov . Requests should be made at least 5 days prior to the event.
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