The Center for Women’s Health Research is dedicated to conducting research on health issues that disproportionately affect women of color by providing a physical and administrative locus where scientists from many disciplines can come together to share insights and methods and deepen the understanding of the cellular, molecular, socio-behavioral and clinical aspects of women’s health. Specific areas of research currently include reproductive health and HIV/AIDS. Over the next three to five years, the CWHR will draw in investigators from three other research areas at Meharry – breast cancer, health care access and quality, and social and environmental factors in women’s health.

Current Center for Women’s Health Research Studies

• Project I of U54: Impact of sex steroid on bone and ovarian function
• Project II of U54: Role of oral contraceptives on the growth of fibroids
• Project III of U54: Benefit of Metformin on PCOS with or without diet and exercise
• Wyeth 303: Post-menopausal women drug trial
• Duloxetine/Lilly Trial: Stress urinary incontinence drug trial
• Wyeth Fibroid Study: Clinical genomic study of human leiomyoma
• Health Disparity in Preterm Births
• Asthma Management in Pregnancy
  

This research was supported in part by the Research Centers in Minority Institutions of Meharry Medical College, grant (#G12 RR03032) from the National Institutes of Health and National Center for Research Resources.