  ORWH Collaborates with NIGMS to Facilitate Trans-NIH Effort to Address Women’s Health Issues Through the IDeA Program
ORWH, the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), and other NIH Institutes have provided supplemental research funds to recipients of grants from the Institutional Development Award (IDeA) program. The supplemental funds will support the expansion of the investigators’ work to address important issues concerning women’s health, particularly maternal morbidity and mortality... Read More
ORWH Will Host Virtual Lecture on COVID-19, Intersectionality, and the Health of Women, November 4
Ana Langer, M.D., the director of the Women and Health Initiative (W&HI) at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and Jewel Gausman, Sc.D., M.H.S., a research associate at the W&HI, will lead a plain-language discussion of topics explored in their commentary article “Sex and Gender Disparities in the COVID-19 Pandemic,” recently published in the Journal of Women’s Health... Read More
ORWH Joins HHS Office on Women’s Health in Observing National Women’s Blood Pressure Awareness Week
ORWH joins OWH and the health community in drawing special attention to the benefits of tracking and managing blood pressure—particularly high blood pressure, known as hypertension, which is associated with heart disease and stroke... Read More
Death Rates Associated with Drugs, Alcohol, and Suicide Increase, Show Trends Related to Sex and Other Demographic Factors
U.S. life expectancy has decreased in recent years, a trend driven in large part by “deaths of despair”—suicides as well as fatalities related to alcohol and other drugs... Read More
NIH Launches IMPROVE Initiative to Prevent Maternal Morbidity and Mortality
With an estimated 700 women dying each year in the U.S. from conditions related to or associated with pregnancy or childbirth, the highest rate among developed nations, and over 50,000 women experiencing severe maternal morbidity, NIH has launched the IMPROVE initiative to support research on how to reduce maternal morbidity and mortality... Read More
NIH Launches Challenge Prize to Address Gender Diversity and Equity Problems Faced by Faculty in Higher Education
ORWH is now accepting applications for a Challenge Prize competition aimed at increasing gender diversity among faculty members at colleges and universities and removing barriers to the uptake of systemic institutional approaches for transformative change... Read More
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 Visit the ORWH Booth at the NIH Virtual Seminar on Program Funding and Grants Administration on October 27–30
Sponsored by the NIH Office of Extramural Research, this event is intended to help demystify the application and review process, clarify Federal regulations and policies, and highlight current areas of special interest or concern. The seminar is intended for grants administrators, researchers new to NIH, and graduate students... Read More
HHS Awards Nearly $360 Million to Programs Supporting Maternal and Child Health
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced approximately $341 million in funding to 55 states, territories and nonprofit organizations through the Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program and approximately $16 million in funding to the State Maternal Health Innovation Program to improve maternal health outcomes... Read More
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As everyone knows, fish live in water—with all its oxygen, nutrients, predators, and pollutants. That’s the environment in which fish thrive or languish. It affects their physiology, behavior, and survival. Similarly, society is our water, and the social determinants of health (SDOH) have a pervasive influence on us and our health—for good and bad, just as with fish. 
