Description of Collaborative Activity: |
The Office of Research on Women’s Health (ORWH) is responsible for an NIH-wide strategic plan on research on the health of women that promotes allocation of NIH resources for conducting and supporting research efforts on the health of women across NIH Institutes and Centers. ORWH is currently undergoing the process of updating the NIH-Wide Strategic Plan for Research on the Health of Women. Recent, significant public health events (e.g., the COVID pandemic) have had an outsized effect on the health of women. Several topics relevant to the health of women were reviewed by the NIH and the NIH Advisory Committee on Research on Women’s Health (ACRWH) in 2021, through the congressionally directed and ORWH-led Women’s Health Conference. This convening included a review of NIH activities to identify research opportunities to address maternal mortality and morbidity, survival rates of cervical cancer, and chronic and debilitating diseases in women. The recommendations that the ACRWH made consequent to this conference as well as recent scientific advances; new technologies; current health priorities; and feedback from a Request for Information will all be considered in the development of the next NIH-Wide Strategic Plan for Research on the Health of Women to help guide future NIH research efforts to improve the health of all women throughout the entire life course. NIH published a Notice (NOT-OD-22-186) to solicit input from the basic, clinical, and translational scientists; advocacy and patient communities; and the public on topics under consideration for the next strategic plan. ORWH established NIH, HHS, and VA engagement in the development of the 2024-2028 NIH-Wide Strategic Plan on Research on the Health of Women that will be released in 2024. |
NIH Participating Institutes/Centers/Office of the Director: |
CC, CSR, NCATS, NCCIH, FIC, NCI, NEI, NHGRI, NHLBI, NIA, NIAAA, NIAID, NIAMS, NIBIB, NICHD, NIDA, NIDCD, NIDCR, NIDDK, NIEHS, NIGMS, NIMH, NIMHD, NINDS, NINR, NLM, OD/AoU, OD/DPCPSI/OAR, OD/DPCPSI/OBSSR, OD/DPCPSI/ODS, OD/DPCPSI/ODSS, OD/DPCPSI/OEPR, OD/DPCPSI/ONR, OD/DPCPSI/SGMRO |
HHS Agency Collaborators on this Activity: |
AHRQ, CDC, FDA, HRSA, OASH |
