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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.

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Commentaries call for improvements in policy, research, and practice to improve women's health.

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Our supplements collect recent research on important women's health topics. 

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Scientific Integrity Work

 

We work to educate lawmakers about legislation that can help ensure the federal government produces and uses scientific evidence appropriately. 

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We collaborate with other organizations to promote science-based policymaking across the federal government.

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We comment on proposed actions by federal agencies that have implications for scientific integrity and women's health.

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Recent Articles

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What Helps Women Leaders Flourish in Academic Medicine? A New Study Identifies Suggestions for Success

June 23, 2026

The latest WHI Editor's Choice study offers suggestions, collected from women leaders at five academic medical centers, for helping women leaders flourish.

Three women who appear to be in their 60s or 70s walk with their arms around each other along a paved walkway surrounded by trees. A white woman with short blond hear wearing a salmon-colored zip-up jacket is on the left; a white woman with dark curly hair waring a gray tee is in the middle; and a black woman with curly gray hair wearing a fuschia zip-up jacket is on the right.

Women's Health Issues: Call for Papers on Improving the Health of Midlife and Older Women

June 11, 2026

The journal Women's Health Issues invites submission of research articles on improving the health of women at midlife and older

Trump targets science in OMB’s grants revamp

May 29, 2026

Liz Borkowski spoke with E&E News about what a new proposed regulation from the Office of Management and Budget means for scientific research.