Biden Signs Executive Order to Boost Women's Health Research
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Source: Bloomberg
March 18, 2024 at 5:00 AM EDT
Updated on March 18, 2024 at 1:12 PM EDT
President Joe Biden signed an executive order to strengthen women’s health research standards across federal agencies and prioritize its funding, part of a broader effort to close the gap on long-standing disparities.
Biden called it the “most comprehensive executive actions ever taken to improve women’s health” at a White House event on Monday, and said it highlighted the administration’s efforts to bolster economic gains for women.
“Our administration has turned around the economy because we focused on women,” Biden said. “If you want to have the strongest economy in the world, you can’t leave half the workforce behind.”
Under the order, the National Science Foundation and Department of Health and Human Services are instructed to research ways to use artificial intelligence to advance women’s health research. It also directs the HHS to expand data collection on women’s midlife health and launch an agenda that can guide investments toward menopause-related research.
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March 18, 2024 at 5:00 AM EDT
The Biden administration is rolling out an executive order to strengthen women’s health research standards across federal agencies and prioritize its funding in an effort to close the gap on long-standing disparities.
As part of the order, the National Science Foundation and Department of Health and Human Services are instructed to research ways to use artificial intelligence toward advancing women’s health research. It also directs the HHS to expand data collection on women’s midlife health and launch an agenda that can guide investments toward menopause-related research.
Women’s health research has faced disparities for decades, from funding to trials. Women are historically underrepresented in clinical and research trials. A 2021 study in the Journal of Women’s Health concluded that the National Institutes of Health’s funding pattern favors males in nearly three-quarters of the cases where a disease primarily afflicts one gender.
“While we’ve made tremendous progress in the last few decades, from revolutionary discoveries in certain disorders affecting women, to increasing the number of women enrolled in clinical trials, we still know too little about how to effectively prevent, diagnose, and treat a wide array of health conditions,” said Carolyn Mazure, chair of the White House Initiative on Women’s Health Research.
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