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JOIN THIS IMPORTANT MEETING - contribute your insights "Moving into the Future - New Dimensions and Strategies for Women's Health Research for the National Institutes of Health"
October 14-16, 2009, Northwestern University, Chicago IL
Dear Colleague,
We have a unique opportunity to help identify effective efforts to enhance the careers of women in science and also help set future women's health research priorities for the NIH Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH) which will hold its fourth and final Regional Scientific Workshop at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, IL, October 14-16, 2009.
Molly Carnes (U Wisconsin) and I will co-chair the "Women In Science Careers" workgroup (Oct 15) whose scope is described in the attachment. Please join the workgroup and contribute your opinion of future research/approaches that should be funded.
Registration for this important meeting is free. Please register today on the web site at http://www.orwhmeetings.com/movingintothefuture/northwestern/ and see the attached flyer for more information. The website also has the current draft of the agenda for the meeting.
In addition to the Women in Science Careers, the working group topic areas of the Northwestern University meeting are Special Populations, Clinical Trials-Research, New Technologies-Bioengineering-Imaging, Genetics-Epigenetics, Sex Hormones and Disease, and Neuroscience. You will be able to register to participate in a working group in one of these topic areas.
You can also register to give testimony on Oct 14 (by clicking on "testimony" on the above web page) to speak about a topic of their choice related to women's health. Please invite colleagues as well to give testimony or join the workgroups.
As a result of the ORWH's strategic planning initiatives over the years, the parameters of women's health research have been redefined to better understand sex and gender differences between men and women in development, health and disease, and to focus on populations of women that have been underrepresented in clinical research in the past. Ten years after the last research agenda was developed, the ORWH has launched a series of four regional, scientific workshops and public hearings to ensure that research on women's health continues to be on the cutting edge of science. The ideas and recommendations from the four regional scientific workshops, along with input from the NIH scientific community, will define the focus of women's health research priorities at the NIH in the coming decade.
Best regards,
Sandra K. Masur, PhD
Professor of Ophthalmology & Cell Biology/Anatomy Mount Sinai School of Medicine
1 Gustave Levy Place
New York NY 10029-6574
telephone: 212-241-0089
fax: 212-289-5945
email: sandra.masur at mssm.edu
"Moving into the Future - New Dimensions and Strategies for Women's Health Research for the National Institutes of Health"
Women in Science and Careers Workgroup
The participation and advancement of women in academic medicine, science, and engineering with sufficient numbers of women in leadership positions is integral to improvements in women's health. This working group will examine how existing NIH funding mechanisms can be used to support the leadership and management training of mid-career women, the development of effective mentors, the promotion of institutional transformation to achieve gender equity and the juggling of career and family responsibilities. Building on the recommendations of earlier ORWH Regional Scientific Workshops which call for institutional transformation to achieve gender equity, we will examine the critical role of top academic leadership as well as the need for stimulating individual faculty members and scientists to recognize stereotype-based biases in their own thoughts and actions and replace these with more egalitarian thoughts and actions. We will seek to identify best practices from industry and governmental funded programs for transplantation to organizations receiving NIH funding. Finally, we will examine ways in which NIH can use its considerable influence to promote institutional change; for example, by requiring grant applications to include institutional data on the gender and ethnic/racial composition of faculty.
Workgroup Co-Chairs:
Molly Carnes, MD, MS (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Sandra K. Masur, PhD (Mount Sinai School of Medicine)
Northwestern University Oct 14-16, 2009
Sent: Thu. September 17, 2009
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