The first-ever White House Conference is set to be hosted President Biden and first lady Jill Biden, regarding Women’s Health Research, as per the details shared with The Hill. Business and philanthropic leaders; academic researchers in addition to women’s health advocates, investors and federal agency representatives are going to attend the conference.
One White House official stated that these group of attendees will be discussing on scientific innovations on women’s health care and business of investing in women’s health.
In addition, an initiative has been launched by Biden administration in 2023 that aimed at closing the gap in women’s health research which has been continuing for decades now. An executive order has also been issued by Biden early in 2024 that directs towards agencies to accelerate/expand research on health of women while strengthening their data collection to “prevent, diagnose, and treat conditions” which affects females uniquely/differently than men.
Health conditions majorly affecting females have been under-researched while historically been underfunded in comparison to studies that examines diseases alongside health conditions primarily impacting men.
In both private and public sectors, women’s health research has been underfunded. National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine’s recent report has found that around 9% of the research of National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) spending between 2013 and 2023 went to health research of females.
