Fierce Biotech March 18, 2024
Ten days after asking Congress to fund women’s health research with $12 billion, President Joe Biden is doing what he can to boost investment via an executive order to expand and improve research on women’s health.
The orders come with 20 new actions across federal agencies such as the Department of Health and Human Services, under which the FDA sits. Within the actions is a $200 million National Institutes of Health initiative for fiscal year 2025 to fund new women’s health research. This would be the first step in the call to action issued by Biden at the State of the Union on March 8.
Through the orders, Biden has called on the agencies to integrate women’s health across the...