The NIH Office of Research on Women’s Health (ORWH) is funding up to $3,000 to support a policy scholar to attend the upcoming Organization for the Study of Sexual Differences 2019 meeting in Washington, D.C. The deadline for the application is December 1, 2018. Applicants are encouraged to submit abstracts related to research policies relevant to women and sex/gender differences. This award is open to medical students from any health-related discipline, a post-doctoral trainee, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) fellows, medical residents, members of the uniformed services or national guard, or investigators who are no more than 5 years past doctoral degree or residency.

For more information, please visit the ORWH website at https://orwh.od.nih.gov/.

NIH is continuing to address the issue of sex and gender inclusion and reporting across biomedical research multi-dimensionally — through program oversight, review and policy, and collaboration with extramural researchers, health care providers, advocates, and the public. This includes developing policies that require researchers to consider sex as a biological variable (SABV) in the design, analysis, and reporting
of all basic and preclinical studies.