Jill Biden announces $100M for ‘life-changing' research, development in women's health – NBC Boston
Jill Biden on Wednesday introduced $100 million in federal funding for analysis and growth into girls’s well being as a part of a brand new White Home initiative that she is heading up.
The cash is the primary main deliverable of the White Home Initiative on Girls’s Well being Analysis, which was introduced late final 12 months. The cash comes from the Superior Analysis Tasks Company for Well being, or ARPA-H, which is underneath the federal Division of Well being and Human Providers.
The primary girl introduced the ARPA-H Dash for Girls’s Well being throughout an look in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Biden has stated girls do not know sufficient about their well being as a result of the analysis traditionally has been underfunded and missing. The White Home initiative goals to alter the strategy to and enhance funding for ladies’s well being analysis.
The $100 million will probably be used to take a position early in “life-changing” work being carried out by girls’s well being researchers and startup corporations that can’t get personal assist, Biden stated.
“We’ll construct a well being care system that places girls and their lived experiences at its heart,” she stated. “The place no lady or woman has to listen to that ‘it’s all in your head,’ or, ‘it’s simply stress.’” The place girls aren’t simply an after-thought, however a first-thought. The place girls don’t simply survive with persistent circumstances, however lead lengthy and wholesome lives.”
President Joe Biden created the Superior Analysis Tasks Company for Well being in 2022 to work on advancing options to well being points. The company is a part of what he known as his “ unity agenda.”
Within the coming weeks, the company will solicit concepts for groundbreaking analysis and growth to handle girls’s well being, in keeping with the White Home.
The primary girl stated final 12 months when the White Home initiative was introduced in November that it grew out of assembly she had had with Maria Shriver, a girls’s well being advocate and former California first girl. Shriver, Biden stated, spoke of the necessity for a public-private effort to shut the gaps in girls’s well being analysis. Shriver additionally participated in Wednesday’s announcement in Massachusetts.
The White Home Initiative on Girls’s Well being Analysis is led by Jill Biden and the White Home Gender Coverage Council.
The primary girl arrived at Boston Logan Worldwide Airport on Tuesday night time, the place she was greeted by Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey. She spent the sooner a part of the day in Connecticut, where she spoke at a fundraiser for the Biden Victory Fund in Guilford.
In her speech, she touted a number of of her husband’s accomplishments. She lined subjects together with financial restoration from the pandemic, the nomination of Supreme Court docket Justice Kentaji Brown Jackson and local weather change. She additionally talked concerning the stakes of the election, saying “Democracies do not all the time die on the finish of a rifle. They will die slowly and subtly, you already know, one freedom at a time, one proper, one hope at a time.”
NBC10 Boston contributed to this report.
