The Office of Science Planning and Assessment is charged with planning, assessing and coordinating the Institute's programs in Women's Health. Staff of the Office of Women's Health participate in strategic planning activities of the NCI by consulting with experts in specific areas of interest and providing technical support in order to develop and implement programs and policies which will improve the health of women. The Office collects information and provides a central information resource on scientific advances in research areas related to cancers which affect women solely or disproportionately. The Office cosponsors activities to explore, assess and report scientific progress in relevant areas.

• To provide advice and staff support regarding the overall direction and approaches to NCI research programs that relate to women's health activities.



• To establish NCI-wide goals and policies regarding the advancement of research on women's cancers.



• To identify women's health research projects within the Institute, encourage increased support of research on women's health, and to assess, review, and monitor the outcomes of that research.



• To provide advice to program staff regarding the design of initiatives to encourage the enrollment of women in NCI-supported studies.



• To interact with scientific and medical communities and organizations interested in women's health.



• To provide a central resource for information about NCI's activities and initiatives in women's health research.



• To serve as a liaison to Agency, Department, and Federal Women's Health Programs.

Liaison Activities include:

• Center for Research on Reducing Health Disparities
  
  
• Office of Research on Women's Health, National Institutes of Health
  
  
• Office of Women's Health, Department of Health and Human Services
  
  
• Other NIH institutes and federal agencies
  
  

Sponsorship of Meetings, Seminars, and Workshops

Lead:
Women, Tobacco, and Cancer: An Agenda for the 21st Century Links for the Women, Tobacco, and Cancer meeting.

Cosponsor for:
Mini-Symposium on Work and Women's Health at the International Symposium on Epidemiology in Occupational Health 2004 Meeting
October 13-15, 2004 in Melbourne, Australia
Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics

Minority Investigator Career Development Workshop
Summer 2004
Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences

Workshop on Cancer Risk Prediction Models: Development, Utility, Evaluation and Applications
May 20-21, 2004 in Washington, DC
Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences

International Conference on Malignancies in AIDS and Other Immunodeficencies (ICMAOI)
April 29-30, 2004
Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis

State of Science Conference on Workplace Strategies and Interventions for Improving Health and Well-Being
April 13-14, 2004
Office of Cancer Survivorship, DCCPS

The 9th Biennial Symposium on Minorities, the Medically Underserved & Cancer
March 24-28, 2004 in Washington DC
Office of Cancer Survivorship, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences

24th Congress of the International Association for Breast Cancer Research: Advances in Human Breast Cancer Research & Preclinical Models of Breast Cancer Research
November 2003

Hormones and Cancer Retreat - (cross-faculty retreat)
October 2003

Priority Setting Meeting for the AIDS Malignancies Clinical Trials Consortium
September 2003

Using Research to Inform Women with DCIS or LCIS of Breast Cancer Treatment Options
September 2003

Pathology of Borderline Tumors of the Ovary
August 2003

Breast Cancer Faculty Annual Retreat
July 2003

Disparities in Health in America: Working Towards Social Justice
June 2003

International Meeting on Angiogenesis in Cancer
June 2003

Making Connections/Conexiones: an Interdisciplinary Conference to Address Disparities in Health Status in the United States
May 2003

International Conference on Malignancies in AIDS and Other Immunodeficiencies
April 2003

Oncology Nursing Society Research Conference
February 2003

Partial Breast Irradiation Workshop
December 2002

Clinical Trials Education Series: Educating Communities About Clinical Trials
Fall 2002 in Bethesda, MD
Office of Education and Special Initiatives

International Congress on Women's Health: Occupation, Cancer, and Reproduction
September 13, 2002 in Barcelona, Spain
Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics

Making Connections/Conexiones: An Interdisciplinary Conference to Address Disparities in Health Status in the United States
August 4-5, 2002 in Las Cruces, NM
Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences

5th Annual Retreat of the Breast Cancer Faculty
July 17-18, 2002 in Baltimore, MD
Center for Cancer Research

HPV Immunology Workshop
June 27-28, 2002 in Bethesda, MD
Division of Cancer Prevention

Ovarian Cancer and High-Risk Women: Implications of Prevention, Screening & Early Detection
May 2002

Endometrial Cancer Biology Workshop
April 5, 2002 in San Francisco, CA
Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis

Women and Mentoring Symposium
April 3-6, 2002 in Washington, DC
Office of Cancer Survivorship, Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences

Communicating Surgical Options for Early Breast Cancer
December 2001