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.

Photo of BIRCWH Leadership and Scholars: Drs. Leslie Garcia, Quin Denfeld, Mary Roberts Davis, Bethany Samuelson Bannow, Estela Vasquez Guzman, Deanne Tibbitts, and Leslie Myatt, and Susan Rosenkranz
BIRCWH Leadership and Scholars (Left to Right): Drs. Leslie Garcia, Quin Denfeld, Mary Roberts Davis, Bethany Samuelson Bannow, C. Estela Vasquez Guzman, Deanne Tibbitts, and Leslie Myatt, and Susan Rosenkranz (Program Coordinator).
OHSU Research Week 2024 NW Women's Health and Sex/Gender Differences Conference

The 2024 Northwest Women's Health and Sex/Gender Differences Research Conference was held on May 8 at the OHSU Auditorium and featured Susan D. Reed, MD, MPH, MS as keynote speakerThank you to all of our speakers and poster presenters for your participation. 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.

View a recording of the 2024 conference

2024 Conference program

Next year's conference will take place during OHSU Research Week May 5-9, 2025. 

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Announcements and updates

Headshot of Dr. Wood

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 Annual Meeting, October 1, 2024, in Bethesda, MD.

BIRCWH & WRHR joint peer-to-peer meetings (virtual) - occur every other Friday from 1:00-2:30 p.m.