 New Issue of In Focus Explores Autoimmune Diseases in Women
The latest issue of Women’s Health in Focus at NIH explores research on autoimmune diseases in women. The feature story describes seven autoimmune diseases that predominately affect women. A guest editorial by the first-ever Office of Autoimmune Disease Research Director Victoria Shanmugam, MBBS, MRCP, FACR, CCD, details the mission of the new office and efforts under way to improve women’s health. This issue also spotlights new leadership at NIH, including NIH Director Monica Bertagnolli, M.D., and ORWH Deputy Director Vivian Ota Wang, Ph.D., FACMG, CGC.
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ORWH Announces Science Policy Scholar Travel Award for a Junior Investigator to Present at the 2024 Annual Meeting of the Organization for the Study of Sex Differences
ORWH is offering a Science Policy Scholar Travel Award to support the development of one junior investigator who is focused on women’s health or sex and gender differences and is also interested in research policy. The travel award will provide $6,000 to support the junior investigator’s attendance at the Organization for the Study of Sex Differences (OSSD) Annual Meeting on May 6–9, 2024, in Bergen, Norway.
Applications are due by February 2, 2024, at 11:59 p.m. EST.
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NIH ORWH and OAR Request for Information on Research Opportunities Related to HIV and Women’s Health
The NIH ORWH and Office of AIDS Research (OAR) launched a joint HIV and Women Signature Program in 2023 to advance the NIH vision for women’s health—a world in which all women, including cisgender, transgender, and gender-diverse women, receive evidence-based care, prevention, and treatment tailored to their unique needs, circumstances, and goals. To ensure accountability to the communities we serve, ORWH and OAR seek comments and input from women with lived experience of HIV, the advocacy and research communities, the general public, and others interested in research on HIV and women.
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Notice of Special Interest: Health Influences of Gender as a Social and Structural Variable
ORWH and our institute, center, and office partners issued a Notice of Special Interest (NOSI) inviting investigators to submit research and training grant applications focused on health impacts of gender-related social and structural variables. For this NOSI, relevant domains include gender roles and norms, gender relations, gender equity/inequity, gender equality/inequality, gender-related power dynamics, and structural sexism. Applications can consider one or more domains as they relate to health.
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