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November 2023
Delving Into Maternal Mental Health: An MMHLA Webinar Series
Join MMHLA for a new webinar series delving into four different areas of maternal mental health. Each webinar will be one hour long and will provide research, evidence-based information, and lived experience testimonies related to each webinar topic. This series is ideal for healthcare providers, birth workers, policymakers, advocates, and anyone who works to improve maternal mental health. The more we know about the unique challenges facing different populations of our nation’s mothers and childbearing people, the better we can…
Military Families & Maternal Mental Health Webinar
In this webinar, you will learn about the lived experience, advocacy work, and policy recommendations that uplift and address the unique perinatal mental health challenges that military and veteran mothers, birthing people, and their families face and what we can do to support them. REGISTER
Sex As a Biological Variable (SABV) Policy and Sex-Inclusive Research: Making Progress, Taking Stock, and Visioning the Future
This Webinar is a special meeting of the NIH Sex and Gender in Health and Disease (SGHD) Scientific Interest Group (SIG) sponsored by the NIH Office of Research on Women’s Health. The SGHD SIG aims to explore the influences of sex (as a biological variable) and gender (as a social construct) on health and disease across the lifespan. The SIG aims to promote the dissemination of research and foster potential interdisciplinary collaborations among NIH scientists who work on or are…
January 2024
Diverse Voices: Graphic Medicine
The January 2024 session of Diverse Voices: Intersectionality and the Health of Women is titled “Graphic Medicine.” The session will feature presentations by MK Czerwiec and Whit Taylor on graphic medicine, or the use of comics to tell personal stories of illness and health. Nurse, artist, and educator MK Czerwiec will describe the history and current state of the intersection of comics and health. Then she will discuss the role that comics can play in research, specifically in women’s health, and will…
May 2024
OSSD 2024 Annual Meeting
More information coming soon! REGISTER Are you attending the OSSD Annual Meeting in May 2024? You may be eligible for the new SWHR Emerging Scholars in Women’s Health Research Award! This award will be offered to three trainee members whose abstracts demonstrate research excellence in addressing important knowledge gaps in health and disease areas that disproportionately, differently, or exclusively affect women. The award is due February 2, 2024. Learn more and apply today!
VCU Health of Women 2024
The annual Health of Women conference (formerly the Congress on Women’s Health), has become the premier interdisciplinary women’s health conference in the U.S. and includes a speaker program with experts on a broad range of topics (including reproductive health, cardiovascular health, breast health, bone health, mental health), poster sessions, and national awards for outstanding research, leadership, and public policy & advocacy in women’s health. Stay tuned for additional details. LEARN MORE Before the Conference: The Society for Women’s Health Research…
VCU Health of Women 2024 | Emerging Topics in Women’s Health: Autoimmune Disease Challenge
Join us for the VCU Health of Women Conference 2024 SWHR Pre-conference Symposium! The Society for Women’s Health Research (SWHR) is dedicated to promoting research on biological sex differences and increasing awareness of health conditions and diseases that disproportionately, differently, or exclusively affect women. Sex and gender influences in autoimmune disorders are undeniable, with women representing more than 80% of the 23.5 million individuals in the United States living with autoimmune diseases. SWHR has taken on the charge to address persistent…