NIH Strategic Plan for Women's Health Research
Moving into the Future with New Dimensions and Strategies for Women's Health Research: A Vision for 2020 for Women's Health Research is the NIH strategic plan for women's health and sex/gender differences research. As the third NIH scientific agenda for women's health coordinated by the ORWH and released in September 2010, this plan is the product of a highly interactive scientific and public partnership involving more than 1,500 leading scientists; women's health advocates; public policy experts; health care providers; Federal, State, and local elected officials; and the general public.
The strategic plan identifies three crosscutting themes that provide a conceptual framework for integrating women's health within the biomedical research landscape:
- Advancing understanding of sex/gender differences in health and disease
- Integrating sex/gender perspectives in emerging basic science fields and in translational research and technologies
- Fostering partnerships to improve translating and disseminating health information
NIH Strategic Plan for Women's Health Research
- Executive Summary (Vol. 1) (PDF - 1.3MB)
- Regional Scientific Reports (Vol. 2) (PDF - 3.9MB)
- Public Testimony (Vol. 3) (PDF - 4.0MB)
- Pinn, V. W., Clayton, J. A., Begg, L., & Sass, S. E. (2010). Public Partnerships for a Vision for Women's Health Research in 2020. Retrieved June 24, 2016, from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2965696/