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NIH wants input on women's research

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If you want to help set the research agenda for women's health, the nation's biggest funder wants to hear from you.

The National Institutes of Health and its Office of Research in Women’s Health will host a conference from Sept. 21 through 23 in Providence at which health care providers and members of the public can offer testimony about what they think are the key issues that biomedical scientists should be exploring. Dr. JudyAnn Bigby, Massachusetts secretary of health and human services, will give the keynote address for the conference, which also includes scientific workshops.

The NIH conference, sponsored in Providence by The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and Women & Infants Hospital, is one of four such gatherings around the country. Others have been held in St. Louis and San Francisco; a third one is scheduled for next month in Chicago.

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