CWHR Mission | Center for Women's Health Research at UNC

The Center for Women’s Health Research is part of the UNC School of Medicine and is the women’s health research program for The Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research.

Our Mission

The mission of the Center for Women’s Health Research (CWHR) at UNC is to improve the health of women through research by focusing on diseases, disorders, and conditions that affect women only, women predominately, and/or women differently than men.

The Center engages in multiple activities to carry out this mission including:

Supporting individual investigators in designing studies and writing and submitting proposals
Administering awarded grants
Helping investigators find and develop the resources they need to conduct their research
Conducting research with Center faculty members