The Women's Health Research Program (WHRP) is funding research in women’s health. We released the program’s first annual Request for Proposals (RFP) in November of 2010. Each year, two $50,000 peer-reviewed grants will be awarded. Preference will be given to one award within Obstetrics and Gynecology. BACKGROUND: The Woman’s Health Research Program is a multi-disciplinary effort seeking to translate research findings into better clinical practices and outcomes. We share the IOM’s definition of women’s health: encompassing health conditions that are specific to women; are more common or more serious in women; have distinct causes or manifestations in women; have different outcomes or treatments in women; or have high morbidity or mortality in women (IOM Women’s Health Research Brief Report, September 2010). Successful proposals will address one or more of these categories of women’s health.
ELIGIBILITY: Principal investigators must be MCW faculty with no current R01 support in women’s health. Criteria for funding include: 1) meeting the goals of women’s health; and 2) the potential for proposed studies, if successfully completed, to generate extramural funding from NIH, NSF