MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES

SUBJECT:       White House Initiative on Women’s Health Research

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the legal guidelines of the United States of America, it’s hereby ordered as follows:

Section 1.  Policy.  Women make up half of the United States inhabitants, however for too lengthy, a scarcity of well timed analysis and information on girls’s well being has left well being care suppliers with out necessary instruments to diagnose and deal with thousands and thousands of ladies with debilitating circumstances, together with heart problems, Alzheimer’s illness, autoimmune problems, psychological well being circumstances, and circumstances particular to girls comparable to endometriosis and fibroids.  

Beyond the fast well being penalties, underinvesting in girls’s well being analysis can lower girls’s well-being and high quality of life, maintain girls again within the office, and have an effect on their households’ financial safety.  By distinction, growing investments in girls’s well being analysis can yield broad societal good points, together with decrease well being care prices and a extra productive and inclusive workforce.

To handle pervasive gaps in our information of ladies’s well being, we should speed up analysis on the distinctive well being wants of ladies throughout their lifespans.  Research gaps are particularly acute for illnesses and circumstances which are extra prevalent amongst girls and for well being circumstances related to girls’s midlife and later years, together with perimenopause and menopause.  Gaps are sometimes much more important for many who have been traditionally underrepresented in, or excluded from, analysis.

We can — and should — improve our efforts to spend money on analysis that maximizes our capability to forestall, diagnose, and deal with well being circumstances in girls throughout the United States.  Meaningful progress requires strong, devoted analysis infrastructure — together with a powerful, numerous analysis workforce — and funding inside and past the Federal Government.  We all have an element to play in galvanizing girls’s well being analysis, growing progressive and cutting-edge interventions that promote girls’s well being, and making certain that girls throughout the United States have entry to high-quality well being care.

Accordingly, I hereby direct the next actions:

Sec. 2.  Establishment.  There is established, inside the Office of the First Lady, a White House Initiative on Women’s Health Research (Initiative).

Sec. 3.  Membership.  (a)  The Initiative shall be led by a Chair designated by the President who shall maintain a twin position within the Office of the First Lady and on the employees of the White House Gender Policy Council.

(b)  In addition to the Chair, the members of the Initiative shall encompass the heads of the next government departments and companies (companies) and workplaces, or their designees:

(i)      the Office of the Vice President;

(ii)     the Department of Defense;

(iii)    the Department of Agriculture;

(iv)     the Department of Health and Human Services;

(v)      the Department of Veterans Affairs;

(vi)     the Environmental Protection Agency;

(vii)    the Office of Management and Budget;

(viii)   the Domestic Policy Council;

(ix)     the Office of Science and Technology Policy;

(x)      the National Science Foundation;

(xi)     the National Institutes of Health;

(xii)    the Food and Drug Administration;

(xiii)   the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention;

(xiv)    the Indian Health Service;

(xv)     the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services;

(xvi)    the Health Resources and Services Administration;

(xvii)   the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration;

(xviii)  the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality;

(xix)    the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health;

(xx)     the National Institutes of Health Office of Research on Women’s Health; and

(xxi)    the heads of such different companies and workplaces because the Chair could, sometimes, designate.

(c)  The Department of Health and Human Services shall present funding and administrative assist as could also be mandatory for the efficiency and features of the Initiative, to the extent permitted by legislation and inside present appropriations.

(d)  At the course of the Chair, the Initiative could set up subgroups consisting completely of Initiative members or their designees, as acceptable, together with to coordinate throughout company workplaces devoted to girls’s well being.

Sec. 4.  Mission and Functions.  (a)  The mission of the Initiative is to advance girls’s well being analysis within the United States.  The features of the Initiative are advisory solely and shall embody, according to relevant legislation, the next actions with the aim of advancing girls’s well being analysis:

(i)     assessing the Federal analysis panorama to establish alternatives for added investments that might catalyze important progress in addressing girls’s well being wants;

(ii)    setting Initiative-wide priorities to assist information strategic Federal analysis investments;

(iii)   bettering coordination amongst companies and workplaces pursuing girls’s well being analysis, together with by higher integrating analysis efforts and facilitating interdisciplinary analysis;

(iv)    growing coverage suggestions to higher be sure that the well being wants of ladies are thought of, assessed, and reported for Federal analysis and information assortment efforts, the place possible and in accordance with present analysis and information assortment and evaluation pointers;

(v)     forming focused suggestions to deal with well being disparities and inequities affecting girls, together with these associated to race, ethnicity, age, socioeconomic standing, incapacity, and publicity to environmental elements and contaminants that may immediately have an effect on well being;

(vi)    growing suggestions to assist the interpretation of analysis developments into sensible advantages for sufferers and suppliers;

(vii)   figuring out alternatives to develop public-private partnerships and to extend coordination of Federal efforts with the non-public and philanthropic sectors to be able to drive innovation;

(viii)  partaking the scientific and analysis communities, together with by serving to promote the publication and dissemination of actionable analysis and information on girls’s well being and by making Federal datasets out there to assist analysis;

(ix)    assessing alternatives to recruit, prepare, and assist girls pursuing well being and biomedical analysis careers to assist strengthen and diversify the analysis workforce; and

(x)     figuring out methods to extend public consciousness of the necessity for better funding in and a focus to girls’s well being analysis, in addition to girls’s well being outcomes.

(b)  Consistent with the aims of this memorandum and relevant legislation, the Initiative could collect related info from exterior stakeholders, together with Federal, State, native, Tribal, and territorial authorities officers; researchers and lecturers; girls’s well being organizations; philanthropic leaders; trade stakeholders; and different entities and individuals which will help the Initiative in undertaking the aims of this memorandum.

Sec. 5.  Recommendations to the President.  (a)  Within 45 days of the date of this memorandum, the members of the Initiative or their designees shall present suggestions to the President, by means of the Chair, on concrete actions that companies and workplaces can take to advance girls’s well being analysis.

(b)  The heads of companies and workplaces collaborating within the Initiative shall help and supply info to the Chair, according to relevant legislation, as could also be mandatory to hold out the features of the Initiative.  Each collaborating company and workplace shall bear its personal expense for collaborating within the Initiative.

(c)  The heads of companies and workplaces collaborating within the Initiative, or their designees, shall inform the President, by means of the Chair, on progress implementing this memorandum at the least twice annually.

Sec. 6.  General Provisions.  (a)  Nothing on this memorandum shall be construed to impair or in any other case have an effect on:

(i)   the authority granted by legislation to an government division or company, or the pinnacle thereof; or

(ii)  the features of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget referring to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.

(b)  This memorandum shall be applied according to relevant legislation and topic to the provision of appropriations.

(c)  This memorandum just isn’t supposed to, and doesn’t, create any proper or profit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at legislation or in fairness by any get together in opposition to the United States, its departments, companies, or entities, its officers, workers, or brokers, or another individual.

(d)  The Secretary of Health and Human Services is permitted and directed to publish this memorandum within the Federal Register.

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the legal guidelines of the United States of America, it’s hereby ordered as follows:

Section 1.  Policy.  Women make up half of the United States inhabitants, however for too lengthy, a scarcity of well timed analysis and information on girls’s well being has left well being care suppliers with out necessary instruments to diagnose and deal with thousands and thousands of ladies with debilitating circumstances, together with heart problems, Alzheimer’s illness, autoimmune problems, psychological well being circumstances, and circumstances particular to girls comparable to endometriosis and fibroids.  

Beyond the fast well being penalties, underinvesting in girls’s well being analysis can lower girls’s well-being and high quality of life, maintain girls again within the office, and have an effect on their households’ financial safety.  By distinction, growing investments in girls’s well being analysis can yield broad societal good points, together with decrease well being care prices and a extra productive and inclusive workforce.

To handle pervasive gaps in our information of ladies’s well being, we should speed up analysis on the distinctive well being wants of ladies throughout their lifespans.  Research gaps are particularly acute for illnesses and circumstances which are extra prevalent amongst girls and for well being circumstances related to girls’s midlife and later years, together with perimenopause and menopause.  Gaps are sometimes much more important for many who have been traditionally underrepresented in, or excluded from, analysis.

We can — and should — improve our efforts to spend money on analysis that maximizes our capability to forestall, diagnose, and deal with well being circumstances in girls throughout the United States.  Meaningful progress requires strong, devoted analysis infrastructure — together with a powerful, numerous analysis workforce — and funding inside and past the Federal Government.  We all have an element to play in galvanizing girls’s well being analysis, growing progressive and cutting-edge interventions that promote girls’s well being, and making certain that girls throughout the United States have entry to high-quality well being care.

Accordingly, I hereby direct the next actions:

Sec. 2.  Establishment.  There is established, inside the Office of the First Lady, a White House Initiative on Women’s Health Research (Initiative).

Sec. 3.  Membership.  (a)  The Initiative shall be led by a Chair designated by the President who shall maintain a twin position within the Office of the First Lady and on the employees of the White House Gender Policy Council.

(b)  In addition to the Chair, the members of the Initiative shall encompass the heads of the next government departments and companies (companies) and workplaces, or their designees:

(i)      the Office of the Vice President;

(ii)     the Department of Defense;

(iii)    the Department of Agriculture;

(iv)     the Department of Health and Human Services;

(v)      the Department of Veterans Affairs;

(vi)     the Environmental Protection Agency;

(vii)    the Office of Management and Budget;

(viii)   the Domestic Policy Council;

(ix)     the Office of Science and Technology Policy;

(x)      the National Science Foundation;

(xi)     the National Institutes of Health;

(xii)    the Food and Drug Administration;

(xiii)   the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention;

(xiv)    the Indian Health Service;

(xv)     the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services;

(xvi)    the Health Resources and Services Administration;

(xvii)   the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration;

(xviii)  the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality;

(xix)    the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health;

(xx)     the National Institutes of Health Office of Research on Women’s Health; and

(xxi)    the heads of such different companies and workplaces because the Chair could, sometimes, designate.

(c)  The Department of Health and Human Services shall present funding and administrative assist as could also be mandatory for the efficiency and features of the Initiative, to the extent permitted by legislation and inside present appropriations.

(d)  At the course of the Chair, the Initiative could set up subgroups consisting completely of Initiative members or their designees, as acceptable, together with to coordinate throughout company workplaces devoted to girls’s well being.

Sec. 4.  Mission and Functions.  (a)  The mission of the Initiative is to advance girls’s well being analysis within the United States.  The features of the Initiative are advisory solely and shall embody, according to relevant legislation, the next actions with the aim of advancing girls’s well being analysis:

(i)     assessing the Federal analysis panorama to establish alternatives for added investments that might catalyze important progress in addressing girls’s well being wants;

(ii)    setting Initiative-wide priorities to assist information strategic Federal analysis investments;

(iii)   bettering coordination amongst companies and workplaces pursuing girls’s well being analysis, together with by higher integrating analysis efforts and facilitating interdisciplinary analysis;

(iv)    growing coverage suggestions to higher be sure that the well being wants of ladies are thought of, assessed, and reported for Federal analysis and information assortment efforts, the place possible and in accordance with present analysis and information assortment and evaluation pointers;

(v)     forming focused suggestions to deal with well being disparities and inequities affecting girls, together with these associated to race, ethnicity, age, socioeconomic standing, incapacity, and publicity to environmental elements and contaminants that may immediately have an effect on well being;

(vi)    growing suggestions to assist the interpretation of analysis developments into sensible advantages for sufferers and suppliers;

(vii)   figuring out alternatives to develop public-private partnerships and to extend coordination of Federal efforts with the non-public and philanthropic sectors to be able to drive innovation;

(viii)  partaking the scientific and analysis communities, together with by serving to promote the publication and dissemination of actionable analysis and information on girls’s well being and by making Federal datasets out there to assist analysis;

(ix)    assessing alternatives to recruit, prepare, and assist girls pursuing well being and biomedical analysis careers to assist strengthen and diversify the analysis workforce; and

(x)     figuring out methods to extend public consciousness of the necessity for better funding in and a focus to girls’s well being analysis, in addition to girls’s well being outcomes.

(b)  Consistent with the aims of this memorandum and relevant legislation, the Initiative could collect related info from exterior stakeholders, together with Federal, State, native, Tribal, and territorial authorities officers; researchers and lecturers; girls’s well being organizations; philanthropic leaders; trade stakeholders; and different entities and individuals which will help the Initiative in undertaking the aims of this memorandum.

Sec. 5.  Recommendations to the President.  (a)  Within 45 days of the date of this memorandum, the members of the Initiative or their designees shall present suggestions to the President, by means of the Chair, on concrete actions that companies and workplaces can take to advance girls’s well being analysis.

(b)  The heads of companies and workplaces collaborating within the Initiative shall help and supply info to the Chair, according to relevant legislation, as could also be mandatory to hold out the features of the Initiative.  Each collaborating company and workplace shall bear its personal expense for collaborating within the Initiative.

(c)  The heads of companies and workplaces collaborating within the Initiative, or their designees, shall inform the President, by means of the Chair, on progress implementing this memorandum at the least twice annually.

Sec. 6.  General Provisions.  (a)  Nothing on this memorandum shall be construed to impair or in any other case have an effect on:

(i)   the authority granted by legislation to an government division or company, or the pinnacle thereof; or

(ii)  the features of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget referring to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.

(b)  This memorandum shall be applied according to relevant legislation and topic to the provision of appropriations.

(c)  This memorandum just isn’t supposed to, and doesn’t, create any proper or profit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at legislation or in fairness by any get together in opposition to the United States, its departments, companies, or entities, its officers, workers, or brokers, or another individual.

(d)  The Secretary of Health and Human Services is permitted and directed to publish this memorandum within the Federal Register.

                                                                                                    JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR.