The initiative builds on First Lady Jill Biden’s announcement last month in which the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) earmarked $100 million in funds to “fundamentally change” how the U.S. approaches and funds women’s health research.
This week’s executive order follows President Biden’s March 7 State of the Union address, in which he called on Congress to invest $12 billion in new funding for women’s health research.
Biden’s executive order will create directives that will ensure women’s health is integrated and prioritized across the federal research portfolio and budget, according to the White House. It will also motivate new research on a wide range of topics in womenR…