President Joe Biden is expected to sign an executive order on Monday aimed at expanding research on women's health care, including strengthening data standards.
The president is also expected to announce more than 20 new actions and commitments by federal agencies, including $200 million for National Institutes of Health research. The White House described the investment as the first step toward the Women's Health Fund, which Biden urged Congress to invest in in his State of the Union address this month.
This executive action follows First Lady Jill Biden's announcement last month of $100 million in funding for women's health.
“Never before has the federal government taken such a comprehensive approach to promoting innovation and women’s health and ensuring that relevant federally funded research works better for women. This is a huge transformative opportunity that will help improve the health and lives of women across the country,” Carolyn Mazure, chair of the White House Women's Health Research Initiative, said at a press conference Sunday afternoon. Ta.
She pointed out that research on women's health is underfunded and under-researched, even though women make up half of the population.
“We have made great strides in the past 20 years, from revolutionary discoveries in specific diseases that affect women to increasing numbers of women participating in clinical trials, but we have made significant progress in treating a wide range of diseases effectively. We still don't know much about how to prevent, diagnose, or treat women's health conditions. Mazure said it also includes conditions unique to women, such as membranous disease and uterine fibroids.
The president and first lady launched the White House initiative on women's health research in November. Mazure said Jill Biden is spearheading this effort by traveling the country touring her research institutes and speaking with women and medical innovators about the need to transform women's health research. It is said that he came to stand.
Jen Klain, director of the White House Gender Policy Council, said the announcement on women's health research comes as the president called on Congress in his State of the Union address to invest $12 billion in new funding for women's health research. This includes the establishment of a central fund. As part of NIH's ongoing research into women's health, we will create a national network dedicated to research on this topic.
Klein said the president has directed federal agencies to “integrate women's health across the federal research portfolio,” through organizations such as the Health Advanced Research Projects Agency ARPA-H and the Small Business Innovation Research Program. The company is prioritizing investment in research and innovation. The initiative aims to revitalize research into midlife women's health, including postmenopausal diseases and conditions such as heart attacks, Alzheimer's disease, and osteoporosis, and to “identify federal funding gaps and report them to government agencies.” The goal is to assess the unmet need to support women's health research by mandating “their progress in improving women's health,” she said.
The executive order comes in the wake of widespread backlash from the Alabama Supreme Court's recent decision that embryos are considered children when it comes to in vitro fertilization treatments, and the state's Republican Party We urge them to swiftly pass legislation to protect them.
Biden has repeatedly criticized the Supreme Court's landmark 2022 overturn of Roe v. Wade, and Democrats have made reproductive rights a major focus of their 2024 campaign.
