Office of Research on Women’s Health (ORWH)

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Mission Statement

ORWH envisions a world where women receive evidence-based disease prevention and treatment tailored to their own unique needs, circumstances, and goals; women are appropriately represented in clinical research populations; sex is considered at every stage of biomedical research and health care delivery; and all women in scientific career fields are empowered to reach their full potential.

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Assistance Listing

Assistance listings are detailed public descriptions of federal programs used across government agencies that provide grants, loans, scholarships, insurance, and other types of assistance awards. They are maintained in the System for Award Management (SAM) and can be used to search for opportunities in Grants.gov.

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  • 93.313 - NIH Office of Research on Women's Health

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Funding Opportunities and Notices

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Administrative Supplements
In addition to our Administrative Supplements overview, consider the following ORWH-specific information.
Administrative Supplement Interest Areas:
  • ORWH co-funds administrative supplements in partnership with the administering Institute or Center (IC) and strongly encourages interested applicants to contact their current Program Officer, as listed on the most recent Notice of Award, to discuss whether a supplement request is appropriate.
  • For mentored research training and mentored career development awards, ORWH prioritizes co-funding for applications that justify sustaining or restoring research productivity, supporting successful return to full productivity, and facilitating continued career development, with evidence of institutional commitment, mentoring, and available resources.
Administrative Supplement Contact:

[email protected]

Conferences and Meetings
In addition to our Conferences and Meetings overview, consider the following ORWH-specific information.
Conferences and Meetings Interest Areas:

The Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH) supports meetings that advance interdisciplinary research to improve women’s health across the lifespan, strengthen rigor through integration of sex as a biological variable (SABV), address disparities in women’s health outcomes, accelerate prevention, diagnosis, and treatment strategies to improve women’s health, promote development of Common Data Elements, and foster workforce development and cross-IC collaboration.

The Office of Autoimmune Disease Research in the Office of Research on Women’s Health (OADR-ORWH) is interested in applications seeking funding for the support of scientific conferences and workshops that will bring together subject matter experts in autoimmune disease research with the goal of developing and refining Common Data Elements (CDEs) for autoimmune disease research. The use of CDEs supports the NIH Data Management and Sharing Policy by facilitating harmonization and interoperability of data from different studies.

Conferences and Meetings Contacts:

The Office of Research on Women’s Health (ORWH) 
Email: [email protected]

The Office of Autoimmune Disease Research (OADR-ORWH) 
in the Office of Research on Women’s Health
Email: [email protected]

Research Education
In addition to our Research Education overview, consider the following ORWH-specific information.
Research Education Interest Areas:

The Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH) co-funds research education awards in partnership with the administering Institute or Center (IC). ORWH supports programs that advance women’s health research by building a skilled, cross-disciplinary workforce at all career and educational stages.  

Interest areas include: 

  • Interdisciplinary training in women’s health research 
  • Integration of sex as a biological variable (SABV) into curricula, including in health professions education 
  • Projects emphasizing team science, cross-sector collaboration (e.g., industry, academia, government), and multi-site research environments 
  • Workforce development across the career continuum, including reentry and reskilling opportunities 
  • Activities that support mentoring networks, career advancement, and leadership development across the career continuum 
  • Workforce development initiatives promoting innovative approaches that translate discoveries into real-world applications 
  • Training that equips researchers with tools (e.g., methods, frameworks, community engagement approaches) to improve the generalizability of research findings  
  • Short-term, mentored, hands-on research experiences 
Research Education Participants:
ORWH prioritizes funding for participants in the following areas:
  • Undergraduate
  • Predoctoral
  • Postdoctoral/Residency
  • Early Career
  • Established Investigator
Research Education Funding Instruments:
ORWH awards Research Education Cooperative Agreements (UE5)
ORWH awards Research Education Grant Projects (R25)
Research Education Contacts:

The Office of Research on Women’s Health (ORWH) 
[email protected] 

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