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Who We Are
The Jacobs Institute of Women’s Health is based at the Milken Institute School of Public Health at George Washington University and publishes the peer-reviewed journal Women's Health Issues. Our mission is to identify and study aspects of healthcare and public health, including legal and policy issues, that affect women’s health at different life stages; to foster awareness of and facilitate dialogue around issues that affect women’s health; and to promote interdisciplinary research, coordination, and information dissemination.
Women's Health Issues
We publish high-quality peer-reviewed research on topics that affect women's health across the lifespan.
Commentaries call for improvements in policy, research, and practice to improve women's health.
Our supplements collect recent research on important women's health topics.
Scientific Integrity Work
We work to educate lawmakers about legislation that can help ensure the federal government produces and uses scientific evidence appropriately.
We collaborate with other organizations to promote science-based policymaking across the federal government.
We comment on proposed actions by federal agencies that have implications for scientific integrity and women's health.
Recent Articles
Clinicians Inconsistent in When They Stop Cervical Cancer Screening for Older Patients
December 17, 2025
The latest WHI Editor's Choice study shows why new American Cancer Society guidelines for cervical cancer screening exit were needed.
Authors Find Variation by Race in How Emergency Departments Evaluate Abnormal Uterine Bleeding
October 13, 2025
In the latest WHI Editor's Choice study, authors compare the care of different groups of women who visited emergency departments with abnormal uterine bleeding.
Do People Have Enough Information to Make Contraceptive Decisions? Study Uses New Metric to Investigate
August 5, 2025
The latest WHI Editor's Choice study asked if people had enough information to make a decision about birth control. More than one-fourth did not or were unsure.