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February 2024
Unveiling the Hidden Burden: Gender Disparities in Obesity Exposed
SWHR is convening an interdisciplinary Obesity Policy Working Group of health care providers, researchers, patients and patient advocates, and health care policy leaders for a closed, roundtable meeting in February 2024. During the roundtable, the Working Group will discuss the impact of obesity on women’s health, with an particular emphasis on the impact of obesity on cardiovascular disease, health care costs, and related health disparities. Following the roundtable, the Working Group will support SWHR in developing a call to action…
60 Years Later: Honoring Black Trailblazers in Health and Science at NIH
The Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion are hosting a hybrid panel discussion titled “60 Years Later: Honoring Black Trailblazers in Health and Science at NIH” in honor of Black History Month on Wednesday, February 28, at 12:00 p.m. EST. The event will feature a panel discussion with multiple trailblazers in the field of health and science, including ORWH’s first full-time director, Vivian W. Pinn, M.D., J. Taylor Harden, Ph.D., RN, Kenneth Olden, Ph.D., and Nathan Stinson, Jr., Ph.D., M.D.…
Cardiometabolic Health & Obesity in Women: AMWA Stakeholder Summit
Please join the Cardiometabolic Health & Obesity in Women: AMWA Stakeholder Summit, which will take place on February 29, 2024 in Washington DC. Panelists and speakers will discuss and provide information with a focus on potential solutions regarding: The impact of obesity on cardiometabolic health across a woman's lifespan The current landscape of obesity policy Stigma, bias, and inequities associated with obesity The event will conclude by identifying action areas for various stakeholder groups, including advocacy organizations, so that together, groups can work…
Getting at the Heart of Needs in Women’s Heart Health
This American Heart Month, SWHR hosted a webinar to review the burden of heart disease in women in the United States and will launch SWHR’s Heart Health Policy Agenda.
March 2024
Sprint for Women’s Health Proposers’ Day
The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) aims to galvanize the innovator, investor, researcher, and patient advocate communities to understand women’s health challenges better, take action, and spur innovation. ARPA-H commits $100 million towards transformative research and development in women's health as part of a new request for solutions (RFS) funding opportunity. The funding announcement will kick off with a virtual Proposers’ Day on March 6, 2024 at 11 a.m. ET. Researchers and innovators can learn more about the Sprint for Women’s Health, ask…
Closing the women’s health gap: The $1 trillion opportunity
As you may have seen in The Guardian, Fortune, and Forbes, the McKinsey Health Institute’s latest report in collaboration with the World Economic Forum, Closing the women's health gap: A $1 trillion opportunity to improve lives and economies, has sized the health and economic returns of investing in women’s health. Even though women live longer on average, they also spend 25% more time in poor health than men, and most of this health burden happens during their working years. McKinsey found a $1 trillion…
Webinar: A New Blueprint – Establishing a Research Agenda for Equitable, High-Value Care
In this era of ongoing disruptions and transformation in health care, understanding the key priorities and challenges is crucial to providing care that is both high-value and equitable. Join hosts for a must-see one-hour webinar as we explore and shape the future of health services research with a comprehensive research agenda focused on advancing high-value, equitable health care. This session will guide you through the process of crafting the research agenda and its guiding framework, the parameters for developing the…
SWHR Policy Advisory Council Meeting
SWHR’s Policy Advisory Council will meet for its quarterly closed-door meeting. Council members will have an opportunity to work collaboratively to develop policy positions, promote research, and create materials designed benefit women’s health.
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.
Goals
- Provide an overview of the impacts of menopause on women’s health and the workplace
- Discuss the importance of creating menopause-friendly workplaces
- Highlight information and strategies from SWHR’s Menopause Workplace Resource Guides
- Increase visibility of diverse experiences of women during and after the menopause transition
Panelists
Claire Gill
Claire Gill
Claire Gill joined the Bone Health and Osteoporosis Foundation in January 2013, after a 20+ year career in Public Relations and Marketing for national nonprofit organizations and public relations firms with Fortune 500 clients. During her tenure at BHOF, she has served in various roles, including Chief Marketing Officer, Chief Mission Officer, and Interim CEO, prior to assuming the full-time CEO role in May 2020.
Claire has led all of BHOF’s consumer and professional education programs. She created and launched BHOF’s “Break Free from Osteoporosis” campaign, which generated hundreds of millions of media impressions from 2013-2016. As chief Mission Officer, Claire created the Healthy Bones, Build Them for LifeTM Patient Registry, a first for the osteoporosis industry. She also helped to launch the National Bone Health Policy Institute and created the Coalition to Strengthen Bone Health, consisting of 14 leading aging, caregiver and bone health patient organizations. The Bone Health and Osteoporosis Foundation (BHOF) was previously named the National Osteoporosis Foundation (NOF), and changed its name in October of 2021.
In September 2019, Claire founded and launched the National Menopause Foundation to bring about a positive change in how people perceive and experience health at midlife. She now serves as Founder and board member.
Claire is native of New York and graduated from Syracuse University. She now resides in Lorton, VA, with her husband and daughter.
Machelle (Mache) M. Seibel, MD, NCMP
Machelle (Mache) M. Seibel, MD, NCMP
Dr. Mache (MAYsh) Seibel (rhymes with Bible) is a 25-year member of the Harvard Medical Faculty, author of the best-selling books, The Estrogen Window and The Estrogen Fix, and Editor of the #1 digital magazine for midlife women The Hot Years. His most recent book is Working Through Menopause: The Impact on Women, Businesses and the Bottom Line. Dr. Seibel is also a founder of Second Bloom Health, an educational platform for midlife women. Before transitioning to focus on menopause, Dr. Mache was a leading expert in infertility who performed some of the first In vitro fertilization successes in the United States. Dr. Mache has published over 200 scientific articles and 17 books for both professionals and consumers, and has received multiple national awards for patient education, research and writing. He is also an award-winning musician. He is board certified in gynecology and reproductive medicine and a NAMS Certified Menopause Practitioner (NCMP).
Alicia A. Grandey, PhD
Alicia A. Grandey, PhD
Dr. Alicia Grandey joined the industrial-organizational psychology program at Penn State in 1999. She has published 65+ articles on emotional labor (e.g., “service with a smile”), workplace mistreatment, and work diversity (age/gender/racial/political), and their implications for both performance and health of service workers. She also co-edited the book Emotional Labor in the 21st Century. Her award-winning research is heavily cited by scholars (24,000+ times) and media (e.g., Harvard Business Review, New Yorker, Reddit, NPR). She was named Fellow of Association of Psychological Science (APS) and Society of Industrial-Organizational Psychologists (SIOP). Dr .Grandey has mentored over 20 doctoral students in her two decades at PSU and received a Psi Chi Honors Society Award for Mentoring and Penn State’s Eisenhower Award for Distinguished Teaching.
Explore the Menopause Workplace Resource Guides!
Explore the Menopause Workplace Resource Guides!
Sponsors
Support for this educational program has been provided by Astellas Pharma, Bayer, Nutrafol, and Pfizer. SWHR maintains independence and editorial control over program development, content, and work products.
