On October 14-16, 2009 the Office of Research on Women’s Health (ORWH), NIH, DHHS along with Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine and Northwestern Memorial Hospital is co-hosting the fourth in a series of regional scientific workshops to explore new dimensions for the NIH women’s health research agenda in the next decade.
With continuing rapid advances in science and wider global understanding of women’s health and sex/gender contributions to well-being and disease, the purpose of the regional meetings is to ensure that NIH continues to support cutting edge women’s health research that is based upon the most advanced techniques and methodologies.
The ideas and recommendations emerging from this conference, which includes public hearings and scientific workshops, and other regional conferences will help inform future women’s health research priorities at the NIH.
Focus areas for discussion at this workshop:
- Under-Studied and Under-Represented Populations
- Clinical and Translational Research
- New Technologies — Bioengineering — Imaging
- Genetics — Epigenetics
- Sex Hormones and Disease
- Neuroscience
- Women in Science Careers