Advancing Women’s Health To Improve Outcomes In All Phases Of Life

Women’s conditions remain understudied and insufficiently integrated into clinical practice. The order seeks stronger research, inclusion, accountability, and coordination across women’s life stages.

What the order does ​

• Directs NIH to establish a Women’s Health Division within 90 days.
• Tasks the division with expanding research, replication studies, advanced technologies, interdisciplinary work, and translation of discoveries into care and public health practice.
• Strengthens research methods for sex-specific outcomes, inclusion of women and girls in clinical trials, and compliance with NIH’s sex-as-a-biological-variable policy.
• Establishes a White House Women’s Health Task Force led by the Health and Human Services Secretary and White House Chief of Staff.
• Directs the task force to coordinate research, evidence-based clinical education, patient-centered care, provider and medical-product capacity, and consultation with public and private stakeholders.
• Revokes a 2024 executive order and a 2023 presidential memorandum on women’s health research.

Who it affects ​

• Women and girls across infancy, adolescence, reproductive years, pregnancy, midlife, menopause, and aging.
• Researchers and NIH grant recipients studying women’s health and sex-specific outcomes.
• Healthcare providers, public health programs, Federal agencies, and State, tribal, local, community, nonprofit, and private-sector partners.

Context ​

Implementation depends on applicable law and available funding.