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President Joe Biden will sign an executive order on Monday for more government funding that focuses on women's health, spending $200 million next year to better understand issues including reproductive challenges and midlife conditions like menopause.
The White House calls it the 'most comprehensive' action by a president on women's health research and it comes at a time Biden if heavily courting female voters to support him in the 2024 election.
First lady Jill Biden is leading both the effort to mobilize female voters and the White House Initiative on Women´s Health Research. She will join the president and Vice President Kamala Harris at the White House on Monday afternoon when Biden formally signs the order at a reception in honor of Women's History Month.
President Joe Biden will sign an executive order on women's health at a time he is heavily courting female voters
Women make up half the population but their health has been long been understudied. It wasn't until the 1990s that the federal government mandated women be included in federally funded medical research.
'For far too long women's health research has been underfunded and understudied,' said Dr. Carolyn Mazure, the head of the White House initiative on women's health.
'We still know too little about how to effectively prevent, diagnose and treat a wide array of health conditions in women.'
Biden's order comes at a time women's health issues dominate the news:
