Office of Research on Women’s Health (ORWH)

• 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.

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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.

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]

The Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH) co-funds a variety of mentored and non-mentored individual career development awards in partnership with the administering Institute or Center (IC) to foster the transition to independence of scientists conducting research that advances women’s health.  

This includes research that: 

• Promotes interdisciplinary training in women’s health and integrates sex as a biological variable (SABV) into research 
• Emphasizes team science, mentorship, and career development 
• Incorporates innovative approaches to strengthen research rigor and applicability and to translate findings into real-world settings 

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

The Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH) co-funds a variety of individual fellowship awards in partnership with the administering Institute or Center (IC) to support projects that advance women’s health research.  

This includes research that: 

• Promotes interdisciplinary training in women’s health and integrates sex as a biological variable (SABV) into research 
• Emphasizes team science, mentorship, and career development 
• Incorporates innovative approaches to strengthen research rigor and applicability and to translate findings into real-world settings 

Current NRSA stipends, tuition/fees, and budgetary levels apply.

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

The Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH) co-funds a variety of mentored and non-mentored individual career development awards in partnership with the administering Institute or Center (IC) to foster the transition to independence of scientists conducting research that advances women’s health.  

This includes research that: 

• Promotes interdisciplinary training in women’s health and integrates sex as a biological variable (SABV) into research 
• Emphasizes team science, mentorship, and career development 
• Incorporates innovative approaches to strengthen research rigor and applicability and to translate findings into real-world settings 

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

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 

• Undergraduate
• Predoctoral
• Postdoctoral/Residency
• Early Career
• Established Investigator

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