Expressing support for the designation of a "Women's Health Research Day".

Bill: 115-hres-706
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Schakowsky, Janice D. [D-IL-9]
Introduced: 2018-01-19
Policy area: Health
Subjects: Commemorative events and holidays

Congressional tributes

Health care quality

Medical research

Sex, gender, sexual orientation discrimination

Women's health
Latest action: action_date: 2018-01-26
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.

Summaries:
action_date: 2018-01-19
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>Expresses support for the designation of a Women's Health Research Day. <br /></p> <p>Supports efforts to: (1) recognize the importance of biomedical and clinical research to women's health, (2) increase awareness of the value of sex- and gender-based biomedical research, and (3) encourage individuals to advocate on behalf of sex- and gender-inclusive research.<br /></p>

tv_txt: IV 115th CONGRESS 2d Session H. RES. 706 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES January 19, 2018 Ms. Schakowsky (for herself, Ms. Wasserman Schultz , Ms. Jackson Lee , Mrs. Watson Coleman , Mr. Quigley , Mr. Danny K. Davis of Illinois , Mr. Rush , Mrs. Lawrence , Mr. Foster , and Mr. Moulton ) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce RESOLUTION Expressing support for the designation of a Women’s Health Research Day .

Whereas women constitute 50.4 percent of Americans; Whereas women across races, ethnicities, socioeconomic statuses, and age groups experience many diseases and disorders differently than men; Whereas the incidence, prevalence, symptomology, and severity of disease may differ between men and women across races, ethnicities, socioeconomic statuses, and age groups; Whereas women and men have fundamental biological differences; Whereas women across races, ethnicities, socioeconomic statuses, and age groups vary in the risks and benefits of medical therapies; Whereas for many years, women across races, ethnicities, socioeconomic statuses, and age groups were underrepresented in biomedical and clinical research; Whereas the improvement of women’s health relies on sex- and gender-based biomedical and clinical research; Whereas the promise of individualized medicine cannot be realized without sex- and gender-based parity in research; Whereas, on January 25, 2016, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) implemented a policy requiring federally funded investigators to consider sex as a biological variable in preclinical research; and Whereas this policy ushered in a new era of inclusivity and parity in women’s health research: Now, therefore, be it

That the House of Representatives— (1) expresses support for the designation of a Women’s Health Research Day ; and (2) supports efforts to— (A) recognize the importance of biomedical and clinical research to women’s health and well-being to advancing human health; (B) increase awareness of the value of sex- and gender-based biomedical research; and (C) encourage individuals, including researchers and patients, to advocate on behalf of sex- and gender-inclusive research across races, ethnicities, socioeconomic statuses, and age groups.