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Jacobs Institute of Women's Health

 

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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

Purple box. In upper left corner is a photo of a brown-skinned man with a beard and glasses smiling. White text across the top reads "Winner: Gibbs Prize for Best Manuscript of 2025." Below that is the header of a Women's Health Issues article titled "Sex Differences in Suicide, Lethal Means, and Years of Potential Life Lost Among Veterans With Substance Use Disorder." The first author is Amar Mandavia, MA, PhD.

Gibbs Leadership Prize: Best Paper of 2025 in Women’s Health Issues

February 4, 2026

The Gibbs Leadership Prize has been awarded to Amar Mandavia for a study on sex differences in suicide among veterans with substance use disorder.

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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.

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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.