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On behalf of the Office of Research on Women’s Health (ORWH) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), I would like to invite you to attend the first webinar of the 2020 Understudied, Underrepresented, and Underreported (U3) Women’s Health Lecture Series, on Wednesday, July 22, at 2:00 p.m. ORWH’s U3 program focuses on critical research gaps and opportunities in populations of women that are understudied, underrepresented, and underreported in biomedical research. The U3 Women’s Health Lecture Series is designed to stimulate interest in complex issues affecting the health of women, such as influences of community attributes on health.

We are still living through unprecedented times. In addition to this event, ORWH, as an extension of the U3 program, plans to co-sponsor several funding opportunities for research on the social, economic, behavioral, and health consequences of COVID-19, particularly as they pertain to the health of women, health disparity populations, and other vulnerable groups. These opportunities can be found here.

The webinar is titled “Improving chronic disease outcomes through approaches that address social determinants of health” and will feature Leah H. Rubin, Ph.D., M.P.H.—Associate Professor of neurology, psychiatry and behavioral sciences, and epidemiology at Johns Hopkins University—and Marie Lynn Miranda, Ph.D., Professor of applied and computational mathematics and statistics at the University of Notre Dame. The webinar will focus on social determinants of central nervous system dysfunction based on lessons from HIV populations and residential segregation’s role in shaping health and well-being. More information about the webinar can be found on the registration page.

As these resources are closely aligned with the work of Laura W. Bush Institute for Women's Health, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, we are bringing them to your attention and encouraging you to join and share them with your network (e.g., on social media, in your newsletter, with office staff, and on your online platforms).

To stay informed about ORWH resources and activities, please sign up for ORWH communications here.

 

 

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/article-abstract/2756983

Key Note Speaker:  John Griswold, MD, FACS

Title:  Evolution of Healthcare:  The Transformation of Prehospital Response in Rural West Texas

Announcement of new Executive Director for the Clinical Research Institute (CRI)
Dr. John A. Griswold

It is my pleasure to announce the appointment of John A. Griswold, M.D., as the new Executive Director of the Clinical Research Institute effective September 1, 2019. Dr. Griswold replaces Dr. Alan Peiris who is retiring August 31, 2019.

Click here to read the entire pdf announcement for Dr. Griswold

Congratulations to Meredith Gavin MS4 recipient

Congratulations to this year's recipients of the CRI Seed Grant!!

Dr. Courtney Queen, Department of Public Health and Dr. M Haris Nazim, Department of Surgery-Amarillo "Intergrating and testing a point-of-care iagnostic tool for the early detection of melanoma"

Dr. Nadezhda German, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Dr. Kendra Rumbaugh, Department of Surgery-Lubbock "Assessing the activity of selected inhibitors of quorum sensing in P. aeruginosa and S. aureus using in vitro polymicrobial infection models.

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