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March 2024
Medications and Obesity: Exploring the Landscape and Advancing Comprehensive Care: A Workshop
This workshop will explore the relationship between medications and obesity, including medications that are used to treat obesity, state of the science around the safety and efficacy of medications in people with overweight or obesity, medications that may cause changes in body composition and weight status, and medications used to treat obesity and obesity-related comorbidities. The workshop will focus on lived experiences and attention to weight bias and stigma, and will also address the implications of pharmacotherapy for obesity on…
The Impact of Menopause on Women at Work: A Guide Conversation
SWHR hosts this webinar to discuss the challenges that women experiencing menopause symptoms face in the workplace and explore strategies that employers and supervisors can implement to improve workplace environments for midlife and postmenopausal women.
It’s a Juggling Act: Supporting Women’s Health Through the Lifecycle
Across all industries, women are over 40% of the workforce. In some sectors such as health care, women make up 75% or more of an organization’s employees. Despite this representation, women’s health care and health care benefits are more expensive and often more restrictive. Attend this ½-day educational forum to hear about the disparity in health care cost and access, and what you as an employer can do about it. This program is available both in-person and virtually. Meet SWHR…
HIV & Women Scientific Workshop
This 2-day scientific workshop will foster interdisciplinary, intersectional, community-centered knowledge exchange on topics of relevance to HIV & women – including cisgender, transgender, and gender diverse women; and individuals assigned female at birth – across the life course. REGISTER
Webinar on Women’s Health — Obtain Updates on Funding and more!
WHIS is teaming up with G2G Consulting, WHAM, American Medical Women’s Association, Black Women’s Health Imperative, FemInnovation, Health Collaboration Partners, HealthyWomen, Society for Women’s Health Research, and Women In Bio Capital Region to share updates on the new $100M ARPA-H Sprint for Women’s Health Program and the White House Initiative on Women’s Health Research. Hear from ARPA-H Director Renee Wegrzyn, PhD and White House Initiative on Women’s Health Research Director Carolyn Mazure, PhD on the new $100M ARPA-H Sprint for…
Empowering Endo Sistas
Get ready to laugh, learn, and lift your spirits at the Empowering Endo Sistas. Mark your calendars for March 23, 2024, because Endo Black, Inc. is coming to Atlanta, GA and it's about to be lit with good vibes! Picture this: a star-studded panel discussion featuring influential figures who rocked the Empowering Endo Sistas PSA. They'll spill the tea on the challenges faced by African American women dealing with endometriosis, sharing their moves to navigate the disorder, and recounting their…
On Aging 2024
Join experts, gerontologists and thought leaders from diverse fields to drive innovative solutions in aging as they celebrate innovation and drive social impact to improve the lives of older adults at On Aging 2024. On Aging is the nation’s largest multidisciplinary conference on aging and the annual conference for members of the American Society on Aging. On Aging 2024 will bring together thousands of professionals working in aging and related fields in San Francisco, California from March 25–28, 2024. Meet…
Genomics in Practice: High Risk Early-Stage ER+ Breast Cancer
During this second of three webinars in the 'Genomics in Practice' series, Dr. Jaime Alberty, MD, FACS and Dr. William Audeh, MD, MS will review the latest MammaPrint + BluePrint data, clinical utility, and case studies focused on identifying ER+ early-stage breast cancer patients for neoadjuvant CT. REGISTER
Trainee Research Presentation: Clinical Research
The WHRC is partnering with the Women’s Health Research Institute and the Gynecological Cancer Initiative to hold a collaborative Trainee Research Presentation (TRP) taking place on Wednesday March 27th, from 1-3 pm PST. This hybrid event will focus on research that falls under our Applied theme—therapies and treatments that improve women’s health—to showcase research on clinical applications related to women’s health and/or sex differences research. TRP sessions feature rapid-research presentations by undergraduate, graduate, or postdoctoral trainees about their research projects. They are an excellent opportunity to join…
Diverse Voices: Endometriosis
The March 2024 session of Diverse Voices: Intersectionality and the Health of Women is titled “Endometriosis.” The session will feature presentations by Drs. Bruce J. Nicholson and Jessica Opoku-Anane. Dr. Nicolson will present a talk titled Cell Mechanisms of Endometriosis Lesion Formation Provide Clues to a Non-Surgical Diagnostic. Dr. Opoku-Anane is a co-investigator on a Fiscal Year 2023 U3 project titled Leveraging Electronic Medical Records and Machine Learning Approaches to Study Endometriosis in Diverse Populations. Her presentation will highlight her work as part of that…