Womens Health
by Jenna Ogilvie | Oct 14, 2024 | Commentary, Perspectives
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Research on Women’s Health (ORWH) was founded in 1990 with a mission to expand women’s health research, ensure that women are included in NIH research, and promote the advancement of women in biomedicine. In...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Sep 30, 2024 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
This discussion paper provides an overview of the tenth annual District of Columbia (DC) Public Health Case Challenge (see https://nam.edu/initiatives/dc-public-health-case-challenge/ [accessed March 20, 2024]), a student competition held in 2023 by the...
by Madeleine Deye | Jan 8, 2024 | Commentary, Perspectives
This commentary is adapted from the keynote speech delivered by Paula A. Johnson, MD, MPH at the 2023 NAM Annual Meeting. Since the predecessor of the National Academy of Medicine, the Institute of Medicine (IOM), was founded in 1970, the country has looked to us to...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Nov 23, 2020 | Commentary, Perspectives
In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, mental health care has become an increasingly important topic in light of the cumulative stressors of social isolation, economic insecurity, anxiety and fears of infection, financial hardship, and the potential loss of...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Jan 21, 2020 | Commentary, Perspectives
The death of a child, at any age, is considered to be one of the most—if not the most—stressful life events a person can go through. This experience is shared across cultures and continents, and the stress is enduring [1]. In the United States, the prevalence...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Jan 6, 2020 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
ABSTRACT | Obesity affects many women of reproductive age in the United States. In 2009, the Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council published the report Weight Gain During Pregnancy: Reexamining the Guidelines, which recommends...
by Jenna Ogilvie | May 30, 2019 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
ABSTRACT | Individual, institutional, and societal risk factors for the development of burnout can differ for women and men physicians. While some studies on physician burnout report an increased prevalence among women, this finding may be due to actual...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Apr 30, 2018 | Commentary, Perspectives
On January 18, 2018, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced the creation of a Conscience and Religious Freedom Division within its Office of Civil Rights. The purpose of the new division is to better enforce 25 existing federal statutes...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Mar 7, 2017 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
As an obstetric resident I once took care of a young Native American woman who had been transported by helicopter from a remote rural community because she had been assaulted by her intoxicated partner. She was early in her third trimester, and the damage to...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Aug 2, 2016 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
Breastfeeding offers numerous health benefits to children and women globally. For this reason, international health organizations and American expert groups strongly support this infant feeding behavior (Victora et al., 2016). Given the high cost-effectiveness of...
