Welcome to the Oregon BIRCWH
The Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH), in the Director's Office of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), established the BIRCWH Program in 2002 to advance mentored research career development of junior faculty who will be engaged in interdisciplinary basic, behavioral, clinical, or health services research in women's health. The Oregon BIRCWH program is dedicated to training tomorrow's leaders in women's health research.
Annual NW Women's Health and Sex/Gender Differences Research Conference
The 2025 Northwest Women's Health and Sex/Gender Differences Research Conference will be held on May 9 at the OHSU Auditorium and feature Judy Regensteiner, PhD, as keynote speaker. Please visit the Annual Research Conference page for more information and updates. We appreciate our conference co-sponsors for their support: The Oregon BIRCWH Program, OHSU Center for Women's Health, and the OHSU Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology.
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Announcements and updates
Congratulations to BIRCWH Scholar Dr. Elizabeth Wood on her KL2 award funded through the National Institutes of Health and National Center for Advancing Translational Science by the Oregon Clinical & Translational Research Institute (OCTRI) at OHSU. Her project entitled, "Maternal-placental-fetal inflammatory programming of infant cardiometabolic disease," builds upon her initial work identifying the role of maternal factors in infant psychopathology and will center on the influence of maternal prenatal diet and metabolic state on childhood cardiometabolic health. In addition, Dr. Wood has recently been featured in OHSU Foundation News as an OHSU researcher leading health advances.
Events
BIRCWH & WRHR joint peer-to-peer meetings (virtual) - occur every other Friday from 1:00-2:30 p.m.