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UNC-Chapel Hill has been announced as the recipient of a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women\u2019s Health (BIRCWH) award. Created by the Office of Research on Women\u2019s Health in partnership with NIH Institutes, Centers, and Offices, BIRCWH is a mentored career-development program designed to connect junior faculty to senior faculty with shared interests in women\u2019s health and sex differences research. UNC-Chapel Hill has been announced as the recipient of a National Institutes of Health (NIH) Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women\u2019s Health (BIRCWH) award. Created by the Office of Research on Women\u2019s Health in partnership with NIH Institutes, Centers, and Offices, BIRCWH is a mentored career-development program designed to connect junior faculty to senior faculty … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":116513,"featured_media":1224,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[152,49,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-obstetrics-gynecology-midwifery","category-news","category-unc-health-som-newsroom","odd"],"acf":[],"featured_image":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1360\/2023\/08\/rahangdale.jpg","featured_image_medium":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1360\/2023\/08\/rahangdale.jpg","featured_image_medium_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1360\/2023\/08\/rahangdale.jpg","featured_image_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1360\/2023\/08\/rahangdale.jpg","featured_image_thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1360\/2023\/08\/rahangdale-150x150.jpg","featured_image_alt":"Dr. Lisa Rahangdale portrait","category_details":[{"name":"General Obstetrics, Gynecology, & Midwifery","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/category\/general-obstetrics-gynecology-midwifery\/"},{"name":"News","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/category\/news\/"},{"name":"UNC Health & SOM Newsroom","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/category\/unc-health-som-newsroom\/"}],"tag_details":[],"_links_to":[],"_links_to_target":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/116513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6635"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6645,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6635\/revisions\/6645"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/obgyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\r\nThe UNC BIRCWH Program will have a multiple principal investigator leadership team with complementary backgrounds serving as Program\/Research Directors:
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\r\n\u2022 Lisa Rahangdale, MD, MPH<\/a>, is a Professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Associate Dean for Admissions for the School of Medicine, whose research focuses on HIV in women and HPV\/cervical cancer prevention.
\r\n\u2022 Michelle Meyer, PhD, MPH, is an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine and Vice Chair of Research in Emergency Medicine. Dr. Meyer is a UNC BIRCWH alumna and a cardiovascular epidemiologist with three primary research interests: non-invasive measures of vascular disease, women\u2019s health, and pain management.
\r\n\u2022 Gaurav Dave, MBBS, DrPH, MPH, is a Professor of Medicine, Co-Director for the Center for Thriving Communities, and Director of Abacus Evaluation. He has more than 20 years of experience in community-engaged research, rural healthcare, and chronic disease management.
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\r\nKeisha Gibson, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics, Chief of the Division of Pediatric Nephrology, and Senior Vice Chair of Clinical Affairs in the Department of Pediatrics, will serve as Recruitment Officer.
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\r\nThe Center for Women\u2019s Health Research within the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology will administer the UNC BIRCWH program.
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\r\nMission<\/strong>
\r\nFrom birth through childhood and adolescence into reproductive age and beyond, women encounter barriers affecting their opportunities, outcomes, and quality of life with underrepresented populations experiencing significant disparities in their health outcomes.
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\r\nThe mission of the UNC BIRCWH Program is to mentor and train early-career investigators to become independent interdisciplinary translational science researchers who study high priority areas in women\u2019s health, explore sex influences on health and disease, and incorporate research strategies to promote health equity across the lifespan. Scholars will have great potential for an outsized impact on the science of women\u2019s health research and improving the lives of women worldwide.
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\r\nHistory<\/strong>
\r\nUNC-Chapel Hill was one of the first institutions to receive a BIRCWH award in 2000 and maintained an active program through 2019. During that time, the program graduated 38 scholars who went on to garner more than $1.5 billion in research funding. The new UNC BIRCWH program will build on previous foundational successes by leveraging the University\u2019s extensive institutional resources and collaborative culture.
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\r\nFunding<\/strong>
\r\nThe BIRCWH Program is a K12 Institutional Career Development Program funded through the NIH Office of the Director.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"