The NIH Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH) will host the next session of the NIH Women's Health Research Roundtable, "Women's Health and Community-Based Data Science," on September 24, 2026, from 3:00 to 4:00 PM EDT as a virtual webinar.
The lecture series focuses on issues impacting women's health. This session will highlight how community-engaged data science can improve women's health by showcasing real-world applications ranging from statewide sickle cell disease care improvements to machine-learning approaches for understanding endometriosis. Free CME credits are available.
Dr. Paula Tanabe, PhD, RN, is the Laurel B. Chadwick Distinguished Professor in the School of Nursing and Professor in the School of Medicine at Duke University. According to the release, she is a nationally recognized expert on improving the treatment of individuals with sickle cell disease (SCD) in the emergency department (ED) and has conducted multiple trials to improve treatment of vaso-occlusive episodes (VOE) in the ED, with a strong focus on implementation of individualized versus weight-based opioid protocols.
Dr. Marina Sirota is a Professor and the Interim Director at the Bakar Computational Health Sciences Institute at UCSF. Her research interests lie in developing computational integrative methods and applying these approaches in the context of disease diagnostics and therapeutics, with a special focus on women's health. She leads the UCSF March of Dimes Prematurity Research Center and co-directs ENACT, a center studying precision medicine for endometriosis.