Trump signs order creating NIH women’s health division and White House task force
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President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday establishing a Women’s Health Division within the National Institutes of Health and a White House task force focused on women’s health.
The new NIH division must be established within 90 days and is intended to accelerate scientific discoveries, expand access to clinical care and modernize treatment throughout women’s lives. It will not replace the NIH Office of Research on Women’s Health, but will have a broader mandate extending beyond research, according to the White House.
The order calls for attention to maternal and mental health, endometriosis, Alzheimer’s disease, osteoporosis, heart disease and stroke. It does not set specific funding targets or dollar amounts, though it directs the Department of Health and Human Services to cover the task force’s administrative costs.
White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will co-chair the task force. Wiles recently announced that she was cancer-free after treatment for breast cancer.
First lady Melania Trump, who helped develop the initiative following meetings with federal health officials and physicians, described the order as a “transformative moment” and said it would help close research gaps and speed the discovery of treatments and cures. At the signing ceremony, she said emerging technologies, biotechnology and new therapies could help reshape women’s healthcare.
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