[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 35 (Friday, February 21, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 8033-8034]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-4259]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Public Health Service
National Institutes of Health
Office of Research on Women's Health; Notice of Meeting--``Beyond
Hunt Valley: Research on Women's Health for the 21st Century''
Notice is hereby given that the Office of Research on Women's
Health, Office of the Director, National Institutes of Health, will
convene a meeting on April 5, 6, and 7, 1997, at the Pyramid Crowne
Plaza Hotel, Albuquerque, New Mexico. The purpose of the meeting is to
update the current biomedical and behavioral research agenda for
women's health, as presented in the Report of the National Institutes
of Health: Opportunities for Research on Women's Health, a publication
based on a conference held in Hunt Valley, Maryland, September 1991.
The NIH/FAES is accredited by the Accreditation Council for
Continuing Medical Education to sponsor continuing medical educations
for physicians.
The NIH/FAES designates this educational activity for a maximum of
10 hours in category 1 credit towards the AMA Physician's Recognition
Award. Each physician should claim only those hours of credit that he/
she actually spent in the educational activity.
The first day, April 5 will be devoted to receiving public
testimony from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 from individuals representing
organizations interested in biomedical and behavioral research on
women's health issues. On April 6 and 7 concurrent working groups will
discuss women's health research, with particular reference to
differences among populations of women. The schedule for April 6 is
8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and on April 7 the meeting will end
approximately at 2:30 p.m. All sessions of the meeting are open to the
public.
Studies have shown that differences exist among women, in regards
to health status and health outcomes. Also, some diseases, disorders,
and conditions are more common among some populations of women than
others. The reasons for these differences have not been delineated.
Some studies have implicated socioeconomic status, access to health
care, individual behavior and attitudes, provider attitudes, culture
and race/ethnicity as different reasons. However, some differences
cannot be explained totally on the basis of any of these examples.
The purpose of this conference is to identify where differences
exist in the diverse populations of women and to modify the NIH
research agenda to better enable the identification of why these
differences exist. In addition, strategies, based upon the research
which can result in an improved health status and health outcome for
all women, will be developed.
Experts in the fields of basic and clinical science, practitioners
interested in women's health, representatives of scientific,
professional and women's health organizations, and women's health
advocates will be asked to assess the current status of research in
women's health, in these, and other areas, identify gaps in existing
knowledge, and recommend scientific approaches and strategies to take
advantage of promising opportunities for research on women's health.
Open sessions will be devoted to identifying those factors which
may influence health status and health outcomes including, but not
limited to, racial, cultural and ethnic beliefs, attitudes, behavior
environmental influences, biologic difference, effects of the changing
health care environment, and socioeconomic status.
Sessions that follow will be devoted to identifying major factors
among populations of women within each life stage/age group and
examples of diseases, disorders, and conditions where population
differences most impact women's health, and recommend research (and
public policy) strategies to address these gaps in knowledge.
The Office of Research on Women's Health invites individuals
representing organizations with an interest in research areas related
to women's health to provide written and oral testimony on these topics
and on career issues for women scientists.
Due to time constraints, only one representative from each
organization may present oral testimony, with presentations limited to
10 minutes. A letter of intent to present such testimony should be sent
by interested individuals and organizations to Ms. Nancy Teed, Houston
Associates, 1010 Wayne Avenue, Suite 1200, Silver Spring, MD 20910. The
date of receipt of the letter will establish the order of presentations
at the April meeting.
Presenters should send three (3) written copies of their testimony,
including a brief description of their organization, to the above
address no later than March 20, 1997.
Individuals and organizations wishing to provide written statements
only made send three (3) copies of their statements to the above
address by March 20, 1997. All written testimony will be made available
to the conferees prior to the April 6 meeting day. Comments and
questions related to the April meeting should be addressed to Ms. Teed.
This meeting is the second of three regional public hearings and
scientific workshops of similar design to be convened by the Office of
Research on Women's Health. At the conclusion of this series of
meetings, the Office of Research on Women's Health will convene a
national meeting to address the deliberations and recommendations from
the regional public hearingsand scientific workshops for the purpose of
developing a report of priorities for research on women's health for
the 21st century.
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Dated: February 10, 1997.
Ruth L. Kirschstein,
Deputy Director, NIH.
[FR Doc. 97-4259 Filed 2-20-97; 8:45 am]
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