Centers for gender and sex health research formed

AORN Journal,  Dec, 2002  

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The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH) has established 11 new specialized centers of research on sex and gender factors affecting women's health, according to an Oct 28, 2002, news release from the NIH. Funding will cost approximately $11 million per year, and the centers will be funded for five years. They are co funded by the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, the National Institutes on Drug Abuse, the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, and the US Food and Drug Administration. Oversight of the centers will be provided by NIAMS.

The centers will be multidisciplinary, allowing for innovative approaches in researching the role of sex- and gender-related health effects. They will undertake research based on three sources, including the Institute of Medicine report Exploring the Biological Contributions to Health: Does Sex Matter?, the ORWH publication An Agenda for Research on Women's Health for the 21st Century, and recommendations from NIH institutes and centers.

Those institutions chosen as centers are conducting at least three highly meritorious interdisciplinary research projects that explore important issues related to gender differences. These projects have a common theme and encompass clinical and basic research. Each institution has an administrative unit to oversee coordination of the individual projects. Institutions chosen as centers include

* Emory University, Atlanta;

* Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston;

* Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill;

* University of California, Los Angeles;

* University of California, San Francisco;

* University of Maryland, College Park;

* University of Michigan, Ann Arbor;

* University of Pittsburgh;

* University of Washington, Seattle;

* Washington University, St Louis; and

* Yale University, New Haven, Conn.

11 Institutions to Establish Specialized Centers of Research (news release, Bothesda, Md: Notional Institutes of Health, Oct 28, 2002) http://www.nih.gov/news/pr/oct2002/od -28.htm (accessed 28 Oct 2002).

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