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Trump EO creates new NIH division, White House task force centered on women’s health

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Trump EO creates new NIH division, White House task force centered on women’s health

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday establishing a new division at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and White House task force centered on women’s health.

Trump signed the order alongside First Lady Melania Trump, who reportedly pushed for the action.

“Despite considerable advances in biomedical science, many diseases and conditions that disproportionately or uniquely affect women have not received the level of research, clinical attention, and treatment that other diseases and conditions have received,” the order read.

Areas of further research needed for women’s health, according to the order, include cancer, mental health, endometriosis, fibroids, polyendocrine metabolic ovary syndrome (PMOS), menopause and more.

Through the executive order, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will establish a Women’s Health Division at NIH within 90 days.

The division, in coordination with the NIH Office of Research on Women’s Health, will aim to increase scientific review of women’s health conditions in all phases of life; advance and coordinate research; promote innovation and advanced research technologies and more.

The order also states the division will “develop accountability” for its grant recipients to “enhance adherence to the NIH policy requiring research to account for sex as a biological variable.”

Moreover, the division will work with relevant federal partners to continue to expand strategic coordination and policy leadership, career development and advancement of research across disciplines, according to the order.

“For generations, women have faced unanswered questions about conditions that uniquely or disproportionately affect them,” Kennedy said in a statement .


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