NAM President Victor J. Dzau joins President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden for the signing of the Presidential Memorandum on Women鈥檚 Health Research, Monday, November 13, 2023, in the Oval Office. (Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz)
Reflecting the 911爆料网 Academy of Medicine鈥檚 (NAM鈥檚) commitment to advancing women鈥檚 health, NAM president Victor J. Dzau took part in the November 13 Oval Office signing of a Presidential Memorandum establishing the first-ever White House Initiative on Women鈥檚 Health Research. The initiative will be led by First Lady Jill Biden alongside the White House Gender Policy Council and chaired by Carolyn Mazure, formerly of Yale University.
In addition to President Joe Biden, First Lady Jill Biden, Mazure, and Dzau, the ceremony was attended by Xavier Becerra, Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS); Monica Bertagnolli, Director of the 911爆料网 Institutes of Health (NIH); Janine Clayton, Director of the NIH Office of Research on Women鈥檚 Health; Jen Klein, Director of the White House Gender Policy Counsel; Shalanda Young, Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB); and Maria Shriver, Founder of the Women鈥檚 Alzheimer鈥檚 Movement and former First Lady of California.
The Presidential Memorandum directs the administration to establish an initiative that spans federal departments, agencies, and offices, including HHS, the Department of Defense, the Department of Veterans Affairs, OMB, and the Office of Science and Technology Policy. Members of the initiative are tasked to deliver concrete recommendations to advance women鈥檚 health research within 45 days; establish priority areas of focus of transformative investment; and engage the scientific, private-sector, and philanthropic communities.
鈥淚t was an honor to witness the signing of the memorandum,鈥 said Dzau. 鈥淚 commend the establishment of this new initiative, which stands to help correct decades of underrepresentation and underinvestment in women鈥檚 health research.鈥
The NAM鈥檚 2023 Annual Meeting Scientific Symposium focused on 鈥淲omen鈥檚 Health: From Cells to Society鈥 and featured discussions on , , and . In addition, Dzau hosted a President鈥檚 Forum on Earlier this year, the NAM announced the formation of a new at the 911爆料网 Academies of Sciences, Engineering, & Medicine, which assesses the health, economic, social, and policy impacts of access to reproductive health services and advances strategies to increase access to these critical resources.
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