On November 13, the White House Council on Women and Girls (CWG) released a report, Women and Girls of Color: Addressing Challenges and Expanding Opportunity. The Council is chaired by Valerie Jarrett. The report highlights the tremendous achievements women of color have made; it also examines the inequities and “distinct” challenges facing women of color and looks at efforts underway to close the gaps in educational outcomes, pay, career opportunity, and health disparities, among other areas. (more…)
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White House Issues Report on Expanding Opportunity and Addressing Challenges Facing Women and Girls of Color
Tagged with: education, federal agency & administration news, health disparities, white house
Posted in Issue 21 (November 17), Update, Volume 33 (2014)
Posted in Issue 21 (November 17), Update, Volume 33 (2014)
White House Hosts Conference on BRAIN Initiative
On September 30, the White House hosted a conference on President Obama’s BRAIN (Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies) Initiative. The Initiative is a large-scale effort to provide researchers with important insights to treat a variety of disorders, including Alzheimer’s disease, schizophrenia, and traumatic brain injury, among others. Four agencies, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), have together committed more than $110 million to the Initiative in FY 2014 (see Update, April 7, 2014, pg. 26). (more…)
Tagged with: bioethics, BRAIN, FDA, federal agency & administration news, IARPA, NIH, NSF, white house
Posted in Issue 18 (October 6), Update, Volume 33 (2014)
Posted in Issue 18 (October 6), Update, Volume 33 (2014)