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The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Research on Women’s Health (ORWH) presents:

ORWH’s 30th Anniversary Virtual Meeting Series:
Advancing the Health of Women Through Science
For 30 years, ORWH has been putting science to work for the health of women. To highlight these efforts, the office is hosting
several meetings, which will offer enlightening presentations on health research, scientific advances in the influence of sex and
gender on health and disease, and progress for women in biomedical careers. Speakers will include:

Francis Collins, M.D., Ph.D.
Director, NIH

Jocalyn Clark, Ph.D.
Executive Editor,
The Lancet

Pauline M. Maki, Ph.D.
Director, Women’s Mental Health
Research Program, University of
Illinois at Chicago

Patricia E. Molina, M.D., Ph.D.
Richard Ashman Professor of
Physiology at the Louisiana State
University School of Medicine in
New Orleans

For more details on ORWH’s 30th Anniversary Virtual Meeting Series and to register, please go to https://go.usa.gov/x7qt6.

ORWH 30th Anniversary Virtual Meeting Series Information:
BIRCWH Annual Meeting
December 14, 2020
10:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m. EST

• The Ruth L. Kirschstein Memorial Lectureship, provided by Patricia E. Molina,
M.D., Ph.D., the Richard Ashman Professor of Physiology at the Louisiana State
University School of Medicine in New Orleans, will focus on the importance of,
and improvements made in, mentoring young investigators.
• Claire Sterk, Ph.D., President Emerita and Charles Howard Candler Professor of
Public Health at Emory University, will be giving a Legacy of Leadership lecture
in honor of BIRCWH’s 20th anniversary, and the plenary session will feature
presentations on research findings by leading BIRCWH Scholars.

Building Interdisciplinary
Research Careers in
Women’s Health

• Register here.

#2020BIRCWH

ORWH 30th Anniversary Scientific
Symposium, “Advancing the Health of
Women Through Science”
December 15, 2020
9:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m. EST

• NIH Director Francis Collins, M.D., Ph.D., will give the opening remarks, which
will be followed by a morning keynote address on women’s mental health
across the life course by Pauline M. Maki, Ph.D., Professor of Psychiatry,
Psychology, and Obstetrics & Gynecology and Director of the Women’s Mental
Health Research Program at the University of Illinois at Chicago. The afternoon
keynote speaker will be Mary Woolley, M.A., President of Research!America.
• A panel of leaders from across NIH will discuss their perspectives on women’s
health. In addition, there will be presentations on high-priority women’s
health topics, such as applying the principle of studying sex as a biological
variable across scientific disciplines.
• Register here.

#ORWHturns30

#SCORE2020

SCORE Annual Meeting
Keynote Address
December 16, 2020
10:40 a.m.–11:30 a.m. EST

• Jocalyn Clark, Ph.D., Executive Editor of The Lancet, will present the
keynote address, titled “Sex Differences Research and the Health of
Women: An Editor’s Perspective.”
• Register here.

To learn more about ORWH resources and activities, sign up at https://bit.ly/322LY7L.
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