Health Policy

Advocacy Updates

Upcoming Briefing: In Her Genes: Using Genetic Tests to Target Cancer in Women (March 9, 2010)

SWHR's Signature Piece of Legislation Included as a Provision in Historic Healthcare Reform Bill

Other Policy News

• SWHR Testifies to House Veterans Affairs Subcommittee
  
  Eliminating the Gaps: Examining Women Veterans’ Issues
  
  On July 16, 2009, Phyllis Greenberger, M.S.W., president and CEO of the Society for Women’s Health Research, testified for the Subcommittee on Disability Assistance and Memorial Affairs and the Subcommittee on Health of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Veterans’ Affairs on the important topic of eliminating the gaps in women veterans’ health care.
  
  On behalf of SWHR, Greenberger recommended that Congress request an update on the research conducted by the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) since the establishment of its women’s health research agenda in November 2004. She also recommended that Congress provide the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) with the funding necessary to conduct research that will result in improved care for women veterans.
  
  

  • Read Greenberger’s written testimony.    
  • Watch Greenberger’s oral testimony.  
  • Read a related SWHR article, "Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in Women Returning from Combat".
    
    
• SWHR Participates in White House Meeting on Women’s Health in Health Care Reform
  
  Martha Nolan, vice president for Public Policy at the Society for Women’s Health Research, spoke at a White House meeting called to address women’s health issues and concerns in the health care system and implications for health care reform. The meeting was moderated by Nancy-Ann DeParle, Director of the White House Office of Health Reform and attended by other White House and HHS officials and webcast live.
  
  
• SWHR Testifies to VA Committee - The Growing Needs of Women Veterans: Is the VA Ready?
  
  On May 20, 2009 Phyllis Greenberger, CEO and President of the Society for Women’s Health Research advised the House Committee on Veterans Affairs that the Veterans Administration is uniquely situated to lead the nation in furthering essential sex differences research and in translating that research into clinical practice. Learn more about the meeting and read Ms. Greengberger's testimony.

   

   

SWHR Advocacy Priorities

• Supporting the permanent authorization of women’s health offices at government agencies.
• Working with the FDA to ensure that drugs are properly studied to determine if they have different effects on women and men.
• Holding Congressional Briefings on important women's health issues.
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SWHR Priority Issues

• Funding for Research
• Clinical Trials
• Sex-based Biology
• Drug Labeling
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