NIH created the Office of Research on Women's Health to support and coordinate initiatives to include women in medical research (Legato, 2002; Pinn, 1999; GAO, 1990).
The Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH), established in 1990 within the Office of the Director, National Institutes of Health (NIH), a) advises the NIH Director and staff on matters relating to research on women's health; b) strengthens and enhances research related to diseases, disorders, and conditions that affect women; c) ensures that research conducted and supported by NIH adequately addresses issues regarding women's health; d) ensures that women are appropriately represented in biomedical and biobehavioral research studies supported by NIH; e) develops opportunities for and supports recruitment, retention, reentry, and advancement of women in biomedical careers; and f) supports research on women's health issues.
These include the National Institute of Dental Research (NIDR), which has an interest in pain and the relationship between temporomandibular disorders and fibromyalgia; the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), which has an interest in pain research; and three offices within the NIH Office of the Director: the Office of Alternative Medicine, the Office of Research on Women's Health, and the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research.
Department of Health and Human Services, the Office of Research on Women's Health in the National Institutes of Health, the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute in NIH and the U.
Fogarty International Center (FIC) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), in partnership with the National Eye Institute (NEI), the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), the NIEHS, the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR), the Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS), and the Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH), invites applications from current and former NIH-supported foreign research trainees to compete for funds that will support their research efforts upon return to their home countries.
Other Federal partners now support the Resource Center in addition to NIAMS, including NIA, as well as the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institute of Dental Research, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, the NIH Office of Research on Women's Health and the HHS Office of Women's Health--in cooperation with the National Osteoporosis Foundation, The Paget Foundation and the Osteogenesis Imperfecta Foundation.
